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Once they altered the features of the face on the computer screen, they knew they had their man.
The photograph, flashed instantly from Australia via the Internet, sends Rob, Tamsyn, and Josh on a thrilling hunt for a man wanted by the police on two continents. Rob and Tamsyn have seen him once in person, but they've no idea where he is now. With the help of brilliant detective work by their friends on the Net, they start to track down their mysterious suspect...
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tered the features of the face on the computer screen, they knew they had their man.<br><br>The photograph, flashed instantly from Australia via the Internet, sends Rob, Tamsyn, and Josh on a thrilling hunt for a man wanted by the police on two continents. Rob and Tamsyn have seen him once in person, but they've no idea where he is now. With the help of brilliant detective work by their friends on the Net, they start to track down their mysterious suspect...
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Abbey School
8:52 a.m.
"It isn't him, is it?" said Rob.
Tamsyn looked at the printed photograph of Kelvin Moore and shook her head. "No. Nothing like him."
They were in homeroom, waiting for the bell to ring.
"I mean, the guy at the airport was behaving oddly," she added. "But at least he looked pretty regular."
Rob raised an eyebrow. "And Kelvin the crook doesn't?"
"No way," said Tamsyn, poking the photograph. "Look at that mustache! Ugh! How can men grow that sort of thing?"
"My dad says it just happens," said a voice from behind them. "Unless you scrape it off with a thing called a razor."
It was Josh, his bulging backpack slung over his shoulder. He bent to look at the picture. "That him?"
"The one and only," said Rob.
"Nothing like the guy we saw at the airport," Tamsyn said. "Clark or whatever his name was. He was wearing glasses and didn't have a caterpillar crawling over his face."
"Tamsyn doesn't like mustaches," Rob said to Josh.
Josh looked down at the picture. "How about the earring?" he said.
"What?" said Tamsyn.
"Isn't that one?" said Josh, pointing at a small white spot on the man's earlobe. "No, maybe not."
"An earring! Rob, the man at the airport had a diamond stud, remember?" She bent low over the picture. "Is that one? Is it?"
Rob joined her. "Hard to say," he muttered. "The resolution's not good enough to tell for sure."
"And he's facing the camera," said Josh. He squinted hard. "But it could be. Yeah, I guess it could be."
"Coincidence, or what?" said Tamsyn.
Rob looked thoughtful. "I wonder what he'd look like without that mustache."
"And with a pair of glasses," Tamsyn added. She moved her head from side to side as she looked at the picture.
"Easy enough to find out," said Josh. "You've still got the bitmap file Tom sent, haven't you?"
Rob pulled a diskette from the bag attached to his wheelchair.
"So, why don't we put it through a graphics package? Edit out the mustache, give him some glasses . . . and see what happens!"
Abbey School
12:40 p.m.
The picture of Kelvin Moore sat in the middle of the screen.
As Josh clicked the mouse button, a square box appeared on top of the picture. Moving the cursor to the center of the box, Josh pressed the left mouse button and held it down. A small icon of a hand shape appeared. Now, as Josh moved the mouse, the box moved, too. He positioned it just beneath Moore's nose.
"Size it," Tamsyn muttered. "It's not covering it all."
The box had eight small black blobs--one at each corner and one in the middle of each side. Putting the cursor on the blob in the middle of the right-hand side, Josh clicked and held again. This time he dragged the side so that the box became longer. With another couple of moves, the mustache was completely enclosed by the screen box.
"Now expand," said Rob.
Josh clicked on a magnifying glass icon. Immediately the area of the screen covered by the box was magnified, filling the screen with a mass of dots.
Tamsyn shook her head. "Amazing, isn't it? Take any picture, and it's just a load of black dots."
"Switch into edit mode," said Josh, clicking on another icon.
"And rub 'em out," said Rob.
Swiftly Josh took the mouse to dot after dot, clicking the mouse button as he went. Every click turned off a black dot. Ten minutes later, the job was finished.
"Can you give him a haircut?" said Rob. "The guy at the airport had much shorter hair."
"And don't forget his glasses," said Tamsyn, trying to control her excitement as she looked at the clean-shaven face on the screen. "A thick-rimmed pair. And make the lenses round, I think."
Josh removed dot after dot from the part of the display showing the man's hair until it looked much shorter.
Then bringing back the full display, he clicked on an icon showing a circle. Within moments he'd placed a couple of them over the eyes of the face on the screen, dragging the sides of each slightly to give them the shape of eyeglasses. Another short curved line across the bridge of the nose, a couple of straight lines back to the top of the ears, and it was done.
It was Rob who spoke first. "It is. It is him!"
To find out what happens, read Internet Detectives #2: Escape Key.
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