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Seriously cool stuff.

that automated matching is pretty nifty. Interested in how the coding for it works out

awesome

That's very nifty...

FaceGen Modeller
Go to downloads and click on the free version.
This is the technology that the Oblivion faces were based on.

This is cool, but I'm confused. It was presented at Sigraph 99, thats 9 years ago! Why isn't this available mainstream yet?

what would take me like 2-3 days to model that quality takes them 10 seconds, f***n smart bastards.

Raider, dont show this to your boss then :p

This is cool, but I'm confused. It was presented at Sigraph 99, thats 9 years ago! Why isn't this available mainstream yet?

Cool... but useful ?

Only real use I can think of is identi-kit type police warnings.

It'd be good for games where you create your own models for more unique characters and from the look of it you could even use your own photo to create the 3d image which could give a whole new aspect to things like Myspace.

^ Exactly what I did with the above mentioned tool in Oblivion. It is how many of the celebrity face mods are made.
Try it out

Interested in how the coding for it works out

You'll find it's less about coding and more about the mathematical representation of faces. I did some face-recognition stuff back at uni, was quite mathematically complex. Once we grasped the maths (took several days), coding it was a piece of piss (relatively).