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From: pnb@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Facial evolution using graphics
Keywords: graphics, archeology, criminology
Message-ID: <9259@ihlpl.ATT.COM>
Date: 25 Feb 89 18:38:05 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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A fried of mine is a faculty member of a local college and is part of
the archeology department. He is doing some planning for some future
work which includes the concept of using computer graphics to predict
the evolution of human forms found in the field, helping to predict
(for example) how a skull would be transformed over millions of years,
using various assumptions regarding how that evolution might take
place.

He is looking for hardware/software combinations that he could
purchase, or have access to, that would have this capability. In one
sense, this process seems similar to techniques that are used in
police/criminology work to guess how young, kidnapped children would
look like if they have not been seen for 5-10 years, except that his
interest spans millions of years and the changing process is less well
known.

I am not sure that this is the right newsgroup to pose this question,
but can any of you lead me to such a tool? Any suggestions would be
welcome. Thanks in advance.

				Paul Burgess
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