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A fuzzy photo? Maybe a sculpture?

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We've all seen the foreensic recreation of the mummy faces, the art used to create a "bust" of long long removed ancestors. Much skill and yes artistry goes into these facial reconstructions. I wonder if a little cross polinnation might be in order with DNAP? Perhaps certain gross features presentable in 3d are not as "vibrant" in a two dimensional photo. If the biometric info is quantifiable and can be "translated", it might be possible to "reconstruct" a face when the only clue is a single tooth with viable DNA. A DNA modeled sculpture might be useful as a source of biometric information simply using the common biometric qualified scanners for input. That image would then be used for comparison against the millions of images gathered each day. Perhaps there is no need for this model as possibly they can just work with the numbers to do this now. But then, when you present to the jury in a case, intangible mumbers against a solid object, most people are more comfortable relying on something they can touch and feel.

Might give Zach Gaskin another angle for his demos.

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