FaceSaver®
A computer graphics system for the collection and management of images
FaceSaver® made its first public appearance as a project
at the Phoenix Usenix Association
Technical Conference and Exhibition in June, 1987.
David Yost, who is an exceedingly
clever fellow, put it together then with the systems aid of
Lou Katz and the superb portrait
photography of Craig Schwartz.
The FaceSaver system captured portraits of the attendees at this and
subsequent Usenix conferences. At the conferences themselves we produced neat
little sheets of labels with the attendee's portrait, name and address.
After the conference, the face database was used to prepare an attendee list,
which came complete with the portraits. A database of portraits and
contact information is set up at
ftp.uu.net:published/usenix/faces.
The format of the black-and-white version of the FaceSaver images is
described in several places, including the book Encyclopedia of
Graphics File Formats by Murray and vanRyper published by
O'Reilly & Associates.
FaceSaver database applications have been extended to allow the information
to be used in many applications, such as ID badges, Fax coversheets
(FaxMittal(tm)), notepaper, real estate listings,
custom organization charts,
and even for use in a computer graphics technique for
constructing portraits out of sets of dominoes:
Domino-Pix(tm)
For further information on the FaceSaver system, contact
facesaver@metron.com.
Metron Computerware, Ltd.
Oakland, CA
Phone: +1 (510) 530 8870
Fax: +1 (510) 530 5841
E-mail: web02@metron.com
Last modified: 08 Mar 1996