In the Mac version demonstrated for the developers, a click and pull of the mouse an operator reshaped an animated face, watched it change shapes as he pulled it through a virtual knothole, twisted it and turned it.

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Details of exactly how these high-tech tailor's dummies work are closely guarded, pending patent protection, but the basic idea is that a network of actuators inside the dummy will push and pull a flexible outer shell into different shapes.

ECONOMIST: Automated tailoring comes closer