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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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant
    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.

    Yes,I do.
    4. Profit

  2. Re:Pretty neat by BigJimSlade · · Score: 0, Redundant

    On Nova about 6 years ago...

    I'm pretty sure MacGuyver did this about 15 years ago. No, seriously.

  3. Re:Pretty neat by T3kno · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Nova was behind the times, I learned how to reconstruct a face on MacGyver at least 10 years ago.

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  4. Re:Pretty neat by Lars+T. · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They also showed it in Gorky Park (1983).

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