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Dienekes Pontikos

The Composite Greek Woman
by Dienekes Pontikos
MORPHING is an image processing technique that can be used to create composite pictures summarizing a large number of individual objects. I have applied morphing to a set of facial pictures of Greek women to create an overall average.
The following Greek women were used: Evelina…

Composite Greeks: the Ancient and the Modern
by Dienekes Pontikos
IT IS OFTEN stated either that “modern Greeks look like ancient ones,” or “modern Greeks don’t look like ancient ones” without any kind of factual-based justification which would lead one to accept either opinion.
It is well known that genes recombine in each generation…