It is quite possible, if Picasso had died the day he painted Les Demoiselles that neither he nor his painting of five awkward-looking, two-dimensional prostitutes parading their wares in front of the viewer would be any more than footnotes in the story of modern art.

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Unfortunately, the processing required to perform the integration of all 51 two-dimensional images into a three-dimensional one is so demanding that the computers Dr Kanade has available take five days to produce ten seconds-worth of video.

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