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Investigating forensics

Investigating forensics

Facial Approximation

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Fleshing out the skull
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    Fleshing out the skull
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    Finished sculpture. Facial approximations may be used by forensic investigators to assist in the identification of individuals when all other identification techniques have been exhausted
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    Sculpting the hair
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    Sculpting the hair, the colour and style of which is often not known
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    Sculpting the face
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    Sculpting the face. Increasingly, three-dimensional techniques are being used to recreate individual faces using either clay sculpted over the skull or computer rendering software
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    Fleshing out the skull
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    Filling in nasal opening