| Summary: | The present study aims to approximate the face from the alleged skull of Jan
Žižka (ca. AD 1360–1424), a military commander and national hero in the Czech Republic.
Found in 1910, the skull has only a fraction of its original structure, which required an initial
effort to reconstruct the missing regions from data collected in CT scans of living people’s
heads. The forensic facial approximation consisted of projecting the skin boundaries with
soft tissue markers and cross-referencing data from statistical projections from CT scans
of living people and the use of the anatomical deformation technique, where the digital
head of a virtual donor was adjusted until it matched the alleged skull of the Czech general.
The final face was the result of the cross-referencing of all data and the completion of the
structure respected the iconography attributed to Jan Žižka
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