Tux Transformed

What
would happen if Tux went to a famous portrait artist to get a
makeover?



i-9fe599f5757938bed427ec100a0bd438-tux-face-modigliani.jpg

href="http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/modigliani/">Modigliani

i-7c87d2d0f437515b4f0d5fad7da2f408-180px-Modiglianihead1911.jpg




i-d0e69f67139cddb421dd10ca705699fc-tux-face-botticelli.jpg

href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botticelli">Botticelli

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This was done using the method href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2006/07/patches_modiglianized.php">described
previously.




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