Alexander The Great's Face Re-Created By 3D Artist With Help Of AI

Today¡¯s history books tell us about a past world which did some extraordinary things, by some extraordinary people to bring us to the present we live in.

And some of these stories, we just have an artistic depiction of the legendary people who did great things -- either in the form of paintings, or sculptures or rough sketches resembling their real faces.

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While these paintings and sketches help us visualize them in our imagination, we often do think about what they¡¯d look like in person, their facial expressions, the physique and body language, among other things. However, AI is trying to fill that gap for us today.

A Dutch photographer and digital designer who goes by the name of Bas Uterwijk has brought Alexander the Great back to life with the help of artificial intelligence, sort of. He created a 3D-rendered photograph of the legendary dictator, giving us a somewhat clear idea of his looks back in the day.

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Uterwijk has worked in the field of computer graphics, 3D animation and he¡¯s often known to bring old paintings and portraits back to life with his skills. He has also created a life-like version of the painting, Mona Lisa, Roman Emperor Caligula, Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca and others.

While Uterwijk¡¯s work is fascinating. He¡¯s not the first to recreate life-like faces based on paintings using AI. Last week, we saw researchers do that to a mummified Egyptian boy, where AI showed us what he looked like before death. CT scans also helped in determining the cause of his death, as well as his age at the time of death looking at bones and teeth inside the bandages.

We saw another Chinese artist -- this time a game developer -- who recreated a terracotta warrior in 3D by scanning his sculpture and using AI to predict what he looked like back in the day.