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From: ghm@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Relational Database, with a Graphical type field
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Date: 1 Jul 90 23:13:21 GMT
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This discussion started, as I recall, around the problem of a database to
store ID images, so maybe someone can answer this question  -  can acceptable
ID images be made up of standard components, as in the "Identikit" system
used by the police?  If so, then that would provide both simplified storage
and a method for comparison of images, but it only works if the resulting
images are accurate enough (and looking at the Identikit pictures the police
release I would have to wonder about that).

Geoff Miller
ghm@cc.adfa.oz.au