Having painted portraits for years I think they all look a little like me. You work from the physiognomy you know best to construct an "interior model" that helps you understand the exterior you're looking at. Mathematical models can get within a hair of telling you what you want to know about various art things--but the hair is a human subjectivity factor that is the essence of connoisseurship. (Or Zenovian number-crunching to the end of eternity). I'm sure with wine a spectral analysis could match all the trace elements but it's stiil the nose that knows.
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- tom moody 2-10-2006 12:55 am