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Skulls Gain Virtual Faces

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the beyond-the-grave dept.

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. Re:Pretty neat by wheany · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    That was supposed to be my +1 informative!

  2. no by SHEENmaster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is the Yackov Shmirnov slashdot. We no longer do russia/america jokes, just observations about life and such.

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