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Person Curves

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/17704/how-to-create-a-new-person-curve

Wolfram Alpha has a collection of parametric curves that produce portraits of famous people — above are Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, and PSY.

Wolfram chief scientist Michael Trott explains how it’s done in three blog posts.

(Thanks, Danesh.)

March 12, 2017 | Science & Math

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