In a message of 11 Apr 98 Ivy Iverson wrote to Ross Sauer:
 II>   Hmmm... Well, they have done computer reconstructions of what the
 II> Sphynx looked like when it was first carved, (assuming THAT wasn't a
 II> natural "freak!), and it doesn't look a BIT like it does now!  I wonder
 II> of some computer geek with a Cray will do a similar reconstruction of
 II> the "face" and we'll see what THAT looked like!  
I doubt very much that what you saw was a `computer reconstruction' any more 
than the pictures on science fiction covers are `reconstructions'. In ten 
minutes with PhotoShop, I can reconstruct the face on the Sphinx to look 
exactly like Elvis Presley. Would the fact that it was done on a computer 
instead of on paper lend it any legitimacy? To el cheapo journalists catering 
to low-level-consciousness type readers it probably would!
-patrick 
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