"Until around the mid-1970s, police mainly used montages of photos with different features resembling the people being described"
"However...the photos' realism limited peoples' imaginations [leading to the] use of composite sketches..."
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240727/p2a/00m/0na/005000c
🔸Was once told by a novelist that ambiguity expanded the reader's imagination, likewise a sketch probably widens the net when searching for persons of interest.
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