FaceBender
                                by Dov Sherman
                                   (c) 1991

A scientific experiment in plotting faces through face-space, based on theories
discussed in an article by A. K. Dewdney in Scientific American.

The idea here is plotting a face as a series of points connected as in a
dot-to-dot picture. Each point on a face corresponds with a similar point on
another face. For example, imagine a line drawn from the position of the
tip of the nose on one face to to the tip of the nose on another face. Assume
that the first point represents -1 and the second +1 and that there are an
infinite number of corresponding points on the line for any other number.

One example of the use of this is to use the face file "average" and any other
face to determine a charicature of the face. "Average" is a face which has
resulted from an overall average of points taken from a large number of faces
and represents the average, androgynous, human face. If we position "average"
as the first face at -1 and the other face at +1, we can determine a
charicature of the second face by plotting the corresponding face at, say,
+1.5 or +2. This would exaggerate the features of the face more and more
depending on how far the points are from their "average" positions.

You can also plot to non-average faces to see the corresponding faces between
them as say Marilyn Monroe's face melts into the face of J. R. "Bob" Dobbs.

Another feature is the ability to save the faces as 8k graphics files.

This program is a self-dissolving arc and can be dissolved by simply loading
and running the program. It is for use on the Commodore 128 and requires
a disk drive. The program will dissolve into the main program and several
face files (with the extension ".fb").