Patches Modiglianized

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One of our cats is called Microsoft; another is called Patches.
 I chuckle about that, sometimes.  



Above is a picture of Patches, transformed by a java applet that can be
found here.
 It appears that the original intent of the program was to
transform human faces to resemble those found among persons of
different ethnicities.  However, they added some artistic
transformations as well.  One option is to view a face as is
might have been portrayed by href="http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/modigliani/">Modigliani.
 



HT: href="http://climactericclambake.blogspot.com/2006/07/i-am-work-of-art.html">Climacteric
Clambake.


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