Roy Feinson is a South African born artist, writer, software engineer and founder of Doubletake Images. He is perhaps best known for creating the genre known as impressionist mosaics, in which the imperfections of natural materials such as turquoise or marble are organized to create ethereal artworks. He is also credited with being an original inventor of predictive text used in cell phones. Feinson has designed many graphic and scientific software applications dealing with artificial life, artificial intelligence and forensic image analysis.
Feinson studied Biology and Zoology in South Africa and put his computer programming skills to work in developing the Animal in You personality test. His latest book, The Secret Universe of Names, was published in 2005.
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