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From: chuck@virgil.UUCP (Chuck Cartledge)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Generating facial caricatures
Summary: See "The Armchair Universe" by Dewdney
Keywords: recognizing faces, exaggeration
Message-ID: <1977@virgil.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 89 12:59:17 GMT
References: <564@uceng.UC.EDU>
Organization: EDO Corporation, Chesapeake Va
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In article <564@uceng.UC.EDU>, dmocsny@uceng.UC.EDU (daniel mocsny) writes:
> Several years ago I read about some image processing techniques for
> generating facial caricatures from facial photos.
> ...  [Stuff deleted] ...
> Are any comp.ai readers familiar with this work? If so, I would
> appreciate the original reference.
> 
While I don't have a copy of the original articles, I have run across a
writeup that may have the information that you are after.

A. K. Dewdney (Scientific American) has collected many of his articles into
a very easily read and fun book called "The Armchair Universe, An
Exploration of Computer Worlds" (published by Freeman). In the book he
discusses a program called FACEBENDER.  The article has the (X,Y)
coordinates of major facial characteristics, and talks about how the data
can be manipulated to generate various caricatures.  

He in turn references the following:
	Brennan, Susan E."Caricature Generator: The Dynamic Exaggeration of
Faces by Computer." Leonardo 18, no. 3 (1985): 170-178.
	McDermott. Jeanne. "Face to Face: It's the Expression that Bears the
Message." Simthsonian, March, 1986, 112-123.

Hope these help.
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