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."

Comments

Oooh!

[bo0ork]

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

Re:Old news. Like, 3,000 years old.

[stratjakt]

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.

Re:Pretty neat

[Fizzlewhiff]

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 ?