FSC239Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Forensic Facial Reconstruction, Visual Communication, Missing Person
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Heading in the right direction: making faces - the process. Forensic facial approximation: showing face - reaching the public. Forensic facial approximation: forensic facial reconstruction, forensic facial depiction, forensic facial reproduction, forensic facial approximation. Biomedical communications: visual communication of science, interpretive visualization. Important to realize that all the above ^ are comparisons. He finds out - white male age 30-50 and gets skull. The practice assumes there is a predictable relationship between the structure of the skull and the structure of the face. The soft tissue of the face is varied in composition and thickness in different areas. Tissue depth with the markers and anatomy as well. Hair color or style (unless samples are available) Skin blemishes, or scarring (w/out related traumatic or pathological damage to bone) Still modeled by hand - no digital automation involved. Difficulty w/ teeth - bc shiny and impacts the scanner. Get only 1/2 of jaw, can double it and reverse.
