The Viking skeleton's skull was laser-scanned to create a 3D digital model
Posted on 04/14/2011 3:57:39 AM PDT by decimon
Academics at Dundee University have helped recreate the face of a Viking woman whose skeleton was unearthed in York more than 30 years ago.
The facial reconstruction was achieved by laser-scanning her skull to create a 3D digital model.
Eyes were then digitally created, along with hair and a bonnet, to complete the look.
The project was part of a £150,000 investment at York's Jorvik Viking Centre.
The Dundee academics were brought in by the centre's owners, the York Archaeological Trust, as part of a project to bring York's Vikings to life.
The female skeleton used was one of four excavated at Coppergate in York.
The reconstruction process was carried out using specialist computer equipment which allowed the user to "feel" what they were modelling on screen. The anatomy of the face was modelled in "virtual clay" from the deep muscles to the surface.
Dundee University researcher Janice Aitken took the digital reconstruction and added the finishing touches.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Volte-face ping.
No wonder they went raiding all the time...
I would like to see the results of three experts in three separate rooms do their reconstruction simultaneously.
Her name - “Man jaw”
Taken separately, the left side and right side are quite attractive. However, when put together, not so much.
Her name is Helga!
Why is the left side of her head twenty years older than the right side?
I mean I know a womans right side doesn’t always match the left side, but this is a bit extreme...
Brunhilde?
big Bertha?
Katrinka?(Katrinka fix!)
Much too much "fat" in that face. That's the problem with reconstruction...you can come up with 100 faces.
It reminds me of that old skull that some British artist (the same guy who made an 'artwork' of a shark suspended in a tank of formaldehyde) ...in the skull's case he got an old skull and encrusted its entire surface in diamonds. What if the owner of the skull would have known that he would be fabulously wealthy ....at least in the form of his skull, centuries later, being encrusted in a fiefdom's worth of precious stones. :)
Like a Chinese cookie telling someone they will be fabulously wealthy and literaly draped with gems...but centuries after you are dead and with the gems being affixed to your skull!!!!!
And she’s a prison guard.
Your recreational activities are noted.
Vikings Da!
hubba hubba
Guilty! (Of something)
Guilty
You beat me to it.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.