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3D Model Showed Controversial Photo of John F. Kennedy’s Assassin Is Not a Fake

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The Department of Computer Science at the Dartmouth College has re-created a three-dimensional model of Lee Harvey Oswald to determine the authenticity of some photographs of him. Blender was used in the process.

Smithsonian.com writes:

From the moment John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963, conspiracy theorists and skeptics have dissected the events of that fateful day. Now, 3D modeling has resolved a longstanding debate about an incriminating photo showing Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, with a rifle in his backyard. According to these new results, the photo is authentic.

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The original paper of this project mentions their use of Blender:

The 3-D model can be realistically posed by simply rotating each body part about its joint. This manipulation respects the underlying physiological constraints of the human body (e.g., knees are hinge joints and an arm or leg cannot be made longer or shorter). This manipulation was performed in Blender, a freely available 3-D rendering engine. When moving a particular body part, the skin was deformed with the armature using the built in skinning tool in Blender, which applies parenting constraints to bones. The articulated model with skeleton (yellow) and skin (black) is shown in a neutral pose

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Bart Veldhuizen

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.

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  1. How can I download the Blender file? Has Dartmouth made it available to the public? If not, are we to just. Take their word for their conclusions?

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