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From: andyrose@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Andy Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: A thought on facial representations
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Date: 7 Nov 90 18:01:26 GMT
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Another thought on facial representation comes from the advertising arena.
By animating faces, a company can "design" its product rep. Imagine
a somewhat white-red-yellow-black-asian-latin-nordic type.

Newscasters would of course be replaced, since the animated face never needs
makeup and never looks tired and never makes a mistake.

In a true 2 way environment I could select the face I wish to tell me the news.

Animated faces also never age so you can have that genial Dan-Walter-Tom-Rather-
Cronkite-Brokaw image f o r e v e r...

Of course, animated animals could deliver the news for children and who
know what MTV will do.

  
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Andrew Newkirk Rose '91 Department of Visualization CNSF/Theory Center
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