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"This is a predictive tool I've used: There are goals we've sought for ten thousand years, and we'll go on seeking them. Instant transport and travel, immortality (or at least longevity and miracle cures.), instant learning …"
- Larry Niven

Police Sketch Artist Software  
  A tablet-style computer with sketch pad software to help identify suspects.  

"He had different eyes."

"Is that him?"

"Face was narrower... and his eyes were squintier..."

"More like that?"

Technovelgy from Runaway, by Michael Crichton.
Published by Tri-Star Pictures in 1985
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The sketch artist software operator would work with the controls and alter the picture based on the description of the witness.


(Police sketch artist pad detail)

Best of all, the resulting "sketch" could be animated; a moving picture of someone is a much better means of identification.

As far as I know, the earliest police sketch artist software to actually be used came out in 1995. Suspect ID by Imageware would allow an officer with no artistic background to create an image good enough to be used on the street.

This same company now offers an enhanced version of the same software, as well as face-recognition software to take images and search for suspects in databases.

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