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speaking of privacy/art issues: Artist finds cigarette butt on sidewalk; extracts DNA; models face from DNA; hangs face as art. -- (link)

Posted by Max May 28 '13, 16:22

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http://twistedsifter.com/2013/05/3d-faces-printed-from-dna-in-discarded-objects-heather-dewey-hagborg/ (twistedsifter.com)

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Don't litter shitheads -- nm - Bacon May 28, 16:46 7
- I hate how people think it's ok to throw cigarette butts anywhere. If they tore off the filter and threw the paper/tobacco part it wouldn't be so bad - zork May 28, 16:50 6
  - I overheard a guy bitching that the "do gooders" that enacted indoor smoking bans in Illinois weren't thinking ahead - TWuG May 28, 17:16 2
    - I thought most studies showed that the impact is minimal especially in the long run -- nm - zork May 28, 17:17 1
      - Apparently not for this guy. - TWuG May 28, 17:22
  - well, since most of them will light up around anyone, anywhere, anytime . . . - charlie May 28, 17:00 1
    - yeah, I just love walking through the cloud on the way in and out of buildings -- nm - zork May 28, 17:02
  - I see lit cigarettes pitched out of car windows daily here. - Bacon May 28, 17:00
Maybe it's the DNA of the model she made out with -- nm - con_carne May 28, 16:37
if strippers ever did that with spunk...we'd have a museum full of Cappie pics :) (j/k) -- nm - budice May 28, 16:37
kinda sorta maybe like the person whose dna it is. no mention of her testing dna of friends or the like, for accuracy? it's easy enough to do a - b. May 28, 16:32
At this point in time, I'd expect that it could only get an approximation of the face. - Beryllium May 28, 16:31 7
- A great practical joke would be to secretly switch her sample submission results with a rendering for Predator. -- nm - Max May 28, 16:35 2
  - would it? - charlie May 28, 16:37
  - Agreed. -- nm - Beryllium May 28, 16:36
- are you saying a DIY bio lab and homemade software might not be accurate or even that close? *shock* -- nm - b. May 28, 16:33
- (But,I don't mean to be a debbie downer ... or an uma uplifter ... it's still a very interesting project) -- nm - Beryllium May 28, 16:33 2
  - I'd think this is already going on, in more scientific ways, elsewhere. even law enforcement applications alone would be something. -- nm - b. May 28, 16:34 1
    - Yeah - I don't know if they would model it, but they would certainly get enough for a description of a suspect -- nm - Beryllium May 28, 16:36

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