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It may produce the most compelling sense of individual presence — the reconstruction most likely to make a viewer feel they are seeing a specific person.
But whether that specificity accurately captures the actual individuality of Zlatý kůň is unknown and unknowable.
The AFA3D computational approach, in forensic comparison studies, has shown performance comparable to or better than manual methods in some respects — particularly in avoiding systematic biases that individual practitioners may introduce — but it also shows the sensitivity to reference database choice that the Zlatý kůň analysis highlights.
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