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Or maybe infrared reflecting material similar to sun block.

The local cancer society came to my workplace to promote skin health and one of the items was a small camera system. You put sun block on one part of your face, stuck your head in a box and a camera and screen showed the sunblock as black paint.

If an IR type of material could be made you could paint geometric dazzle type paint on your face to obscure its geometry.

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Slick idea - I'd be concerned tho that, given the semi normal rough distribution of heat on the face (there's a reason head wounds bleed so much) that this attempt to game the system would be easily detected as gaming the system. The good news is any idiots building a product by bolting together parts from OpenCV that they barely understand would probably fall for it. Me, I'd be embarrassed if I didn't tag you as anomalous. HOWEVER - if you were really really good and accurate with the application of the blocker (cause if its zinc oxide it does work in both directions) and you backed it up with makeup for the visible light side of the house, you probably could fool most by establishing a completely different facial geometry. Anyway, certainly a concept worth ruminating on. :-) I think it would beat me at my imaginary best if done well. Have to find a counter, I guess.. Like gait :-)

> Me, I'd be embarrassed if I didn't tag you as anomalous

So it sounds like these types of strategies need to be turned into fashion trends in order to make the anomalies not so anomalous?

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