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 ...
I think they mixed up this face with that of one of the raiding Vikings.
(She probably had a very warm heart to match those crooked eyes...)
You have no idea how badly I want an orange juice right this very minute. Maybe 6 glasses.
Yeah...those exotic native chicks that smelled like dead seal instead of dead cow.
Guilty!
Keep going ... that doesn’t quite fill a 22” screen.
Wasn’t she in “Schreck?”
I wonder how many of the FReepers who posted here would want a computerized image of themselves posted here. I’m sure we’d all have our fellow FReepers drooling, right?
Beyond that, I wonder about the science behind this. Are there really enough clues in the facial bones to realistically recreate facial features?
I find the jaw shape interesting, as well as the hair color.
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