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The 10 Real Reasons Why Geeks Make Better Lovers -

Here it goes. It is interesting what Natali will say

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A Morphable Model of 3D Faces - Table of Malcontents | WIRED Blogs

It is an amaizing technology, which looks like a piece of science fiction.

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Volker Blanz and Thomas Vetter of the MPI for Biological Cybernetics in Germany have come up with a morphable model for three-dimensional faces. What their system does is build a single master face out of a series of two hundred source faces, differentiated from one another by a vast spectrum of different features. This master face can then be easily morphed into any combination of features, allowing it to easily transform into any possible face (barring disfigurement).But it gets cooler. The program can take a single 2D image of someone's face and create a completely accurate 3D head model. Tom Hanks and Audrey Hepburn are the source images they use to demonstrate the process and the result is eerie and nearly indistinguishable.And then it gets even better: Using this same morphable head model, Blanz and Vetter then proceed to extrapolate a three-dimensional head model of Mona Lisa from the two-dimensional source of Da Vinci's famous painting. When they do so, it's clear that Mona Lisa was a handsome woman in reality and not nearly the smug, demonic goblin Da Vinci made her appear.

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