The following excerpt is from an article posted in the May 17, 2013 edition of TheAtlantic.com:
…If you are the Richard III Society, your answer would be (e). After the discovery of the remains of Richard III in February, a professor at the Society, Caroline Wilkinson, put the new evidence about the king’s body — a centuries-old smoking gun — to use. The professor, The Guardian reports, worked with the forensic art team at the University of Dundee to digitally determine what the king’s face would have looked like in person (well, “in person”). From there, the team used stereolithography — yep, 3D printing — to convert that rendering into a physical model of the king’s face. They extrapolated details like hair color and clothing style from portraits painted during Richard’s time.
