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jsrnephdoc
You can't map between appearance and thread count...you can't catalogue a person's genome from their face.
Thread counts won't do. We can recognise these as being "the same tartan" but each has a unique thread count. (I know, I generated the images.)
It's the old "I can't put it into words, but I'll know it when I see it."
About faces, I was disgusted by a television programme attempting to use a computer program to quantify how much pairs of human faces resembled each other.
It was preposterous. They were looking only at "features": to what extent the eyes, mouths, and noses were alike.
Anyone who knows faces knows that you can identify a person quite accurately with all the features covered or blurred out; you identify a person by the shape/contours and proportions of their head and face. Note that you can spot a person you know only seeing the back of their head! Or when they're wearing sunglasses and a mask covering their mouth and nose.
It's how you can tell so-called "identical twins" apart. They're never identical. The differences usually aren't in their "features" but in extremely subtle proportions of their head and face, generally the area around the cheekbones. (Goes to show that identical DNA expresses itself slightly differently in each iteration.)
Last edited by OC Richard; 9th August 25 at 09:05 PM.
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