Uploaded August 2018 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
In the 1880s students in Cambridge had their head measured to test for correlations between head size and degree class. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, a major public exhibition will reconstruct this experience. You will use computer vision to measure visitors' profiles, matching against archive records of thousands of ex-students to identify a (possibly famous) historical twin, and then render a simulation of a new
"handwritten" record card that can be accessed online to compare your future grades to theirs.
In the 1880s students in Cambridge had their head measured to test for correlations between head size and degree class. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, a major public exhibition will reconstruct this experience. You will use computer vision to measure visitors' profiles, matching against archive records of thousands of ex-students to identify a (possibly famous) historical twin, and then render a simulation of a new
"handwritten" record card that can be accessed online to compare your future grades to theirs.










