Another way of putting my question/ point is that a picture (or map) of your face is surely a more efficient, informational way to store your face than any set of symbols - especially if a doctor wants to do plastic surgery on it, or someone wants to use it for any design purpose whatsoever?
No, actually, most plastic surgery planning programs map your face as a limited set of three dimensional points, not an image. This allows for rotation and all sorts of useful things. And guess where they store this data . . . . a relational database -- just like any other CAD program.
Images are *not* an efficient way to store data. Unless they are three-dimensional images, they lack data. Normally, they include a lot of unnecessary or redundant data. It is very, very rare that a computer stores any but the smallest image without compressing it. And remember, an image can be stored as symbols in a relational database very easily as a set of x-coords, y-coords, and colors.
You're stuck on a crackpot idea with no proof and plenty of counter-examples.
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