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Computer scientists at the University of Bath in England have
come up with a way to make even the dullest of holiday snaps,
quite literally, animated. John Collomosse has designed software
that can transform videos into cartoons, and photographs into
cubist portraits. Traditional animation methods are labor
intensive and time consuming, but Collomosse's technique
requires very little human intervention for the transformation
to take place. The user chooses from a selection of artistic
styles -- including cartoon, oil painting, sketch or cubist --
as to how they want to transform their photograph. Collomosse
created the program for his postgraduate studies, with the help
of his supervisor, lecturer Dr. Peter Hall. He told CNN that for
the process to happen automati