ABSTRACT OF THE INVENTIONFlexible sheet fabric material for use in thefabrication of items bearing lifelike head and/or bodyrepresentations of real life subjects. The sheet mater-ial has a print surface on at least one of its sides anda computer-generated imprint thereon of a two-dimensionalphotographic representation, an azimuthal-type sectorprojection, or a computer warped or panoramic representa-tion of a human or animal head and/or body, the sheetmaterial being capable of application to a substratestructure or stuffing substance to form a lifelikereproduction of a real life subject. In accordance withthe methodology disclosed, two-dimensional or three-dimensional visual image information relating to a reallife subject is digitized with the digitized imageinformation thereafter fed to a computer for manipulationand editing by software, data bank anatomic informationand keyboard direction for CRT display and for utiliza-tion by a computer-directed printer. The flexible sheetmaterial is fed to the printer and receives an imprint ofthe visual image information in the form of a two-dimen-sional photographic representation of the real lifesubject, an azimuthal-type sector projection of thesubject, or a computer warped or panoramic representationof the subject. The sheet material bearing the visualinformation is thereafter conformed and applied to anappropriate substrate structure or stuffing substanceto form the lifelike representation of the real lifesubject.
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