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Article: INTO THE DIGITAL DARKROOM -- AND BEYOND
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 7, 1988
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BEYOND PHOTOGRAPHY, The Digital Darkroom, by Gerard J. Holzmann
(Prentice Hall, $24.95).
Chances are you've never wondered what Albert Einstein would
look like if you projected his photo into a cone.
But who hasn't borrowed features from a couple of faces, and
then in the mind's palette blended them into a new hybrid face. And
who hasn't tarried in front of the fun house mirrors, shifting
about, watching body and face stretch, bend, compress or drift
apart, like so much human Jello.
Gerard Holzmann, a computer scientist at Bell Labs in New
Jersey, has written a sort of layman's journal about his tinkerings
with a photo digitizer or scanner.
Holzmann took conventional ...