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From: shirriff@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Ken Shirriff)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Facial evolution using graphics
Keywords: graphics, archeology, criminology
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Date: 25 Feb 89 23:14:23 GMT
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In article <9259@ihlpl.ATT.COM> pnb@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Burgess) writes:
>[...] 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.

Look at "The Perception of Human Growth", Scientific American, February
1980, pages 132-144.  This discusses methods of transforming skulls
to simulate growth and evolution.  They find a cardioidal strain
transformation works best.

Ken Shirriff	shirriff@ernie.Berkeley.EDU