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Skulls Gain Virtual Faces

rw2 writes "Totally cool, The guys at Max Planck Institute for Computer Science have developed a way to reconstruct a persons appearence when a skull is found. When police find a skull and want to know what its owner looked like, they generally use artists who reconstruct the face by building up layers of clay over the skull."

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  1. Oooh! by bo0ork · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't wait to see what that skeleton that hangs in the biology class lab looked like when it was alive!

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    1. Re:Oooh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      so.. Michael Jackson then?

    2. Re:Oooh! by hesiod · · Score: 4, Funny

      > No, the one in my class had a normal looking nose.

      I thought most skeletons didn't have noses...

    3. Re:Oooh! by Captain+Large+Face · · Score: 4, Funny

      I can't wait to see what Skeletor looks like. But I already have my suspicions...

  2. Re:Old news. Like, 3,000 years old. by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Funny

    The reconstruction scenes were silly!

    Do you think Nefertiti and Akenaten sat silently next to each other, slowly turning at regular intervals to give each other shifty eyed knowing glances?

    And did you see that one priest dude with the leapord skin shawl and the GIGANTANORMOUS AFRO! The Afro was bigger than him! He was the pimpinest ancient egyptian I ever did see.

    And I liked that the whole conclusion that they had found nefertiti was based on "If its not Nefertiti, who else could it be?" Gee I dunno, maybe one of the other BAJILLION people who lived in egypt?

    Anyways. I cant stay mad at TV. I just wish they'd stick to CGI dinosaurs.

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  3. CSI?!?! by thebatlab · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is not new. Doesn't anybody watch CSI? With the aid of computer technology they are able to zoom in on images taken from blurry security cameras to be able to tell if there is a carpet fiber on the jacket of the person in the very same picture! I'm sure they're able to fully rebuild a complete person from just the skeletal structure, muscles and all. They can probably interpolate from marks on the skeleton and thanks to that guy that knows everything he could probably help out b/c chances are he knew the guy. TV wouldn't lie to me!! Would it...?? *cowers in the corner*

  4. Re:Pretty neat by Fizzlewhiff · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Glue on pencil erasers to set the skin thickness
    2. Cover with modeling clay to make the features using the erasers as a guide.
    3. ???

    You know the rest.

    4. Profit ?

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  5. So... by docbrown42 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...we will finally be able to see what Calista Flockhart REALLY looks like?

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  6. Re:Old news. Like, 3,000 years old. by penguin7of9 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I liked the look of the actress who played the doomed queen [...] Much more convincing than Yul Brenner, and a darn sight better looking.

    Well, unless Nefertiti was a drag queen, it is perhaps not all that surprising that Yul Brynner didn't make a convincing Nefertiti.

  7. Re:Soviet Mobs? by Slack3r78 · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have somehow managed to make references to Soviet Russia, the word "base", and SCO as well as twist your sentence structure without anyone cracking any of the standard jokes. Am I on the right Slashdot? ;)