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When comparing books and their movie adaptations, books almost always prove to be better. One of the reasons is that a film does not always manage to convey the same imagery as a book in which emotions are blended with visuals. When reading, one can form a completely different image of a place or a character and have entirely another general feeling of a story. 

When creating a film adaptation, the cast is usually chosen according to the characteristics described in a book. However, the looks are not always so precise. With that in mind, one Vietnamese woman (to her followers known as MsBananaAnna) decided to use artificial intelligence to see what Harry Potter characters would look like based on book descriptions.

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Tho Nguyen
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not that Gary Oldman isn't a brilliant actor but yes I prefer this Sirius more.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Confession: I've been SO disappointed in the movie Sirius. I always imagined this over-confident hotshot jock. Whereas the guy in the movie was more of a "guy next door" type. At least in my eyes.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You're not wrong. My sister and I would cast the movies with our dream lineups based on what we'd read. We always thought Johnny Depp would've made a good Sirius and John Cusack would've been a good Lupin - both seemed more in line with the characters than Gary Goldman and David Thewlis (who, while an AMAZING Shame Wizard on Big Mouth/Human Resources, never really had the swagger or warmth that Lupin was supposed to exude)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ive seen a lot of tumblr/pinterest edit/post using ben barnes as sirius black, then aaron taylor-johnson as james potter, gosh they look stunning as hell together (I kinda forgot people who got edited as remus and peter, sorry)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Isn't he supposed yo look a little more gaunt and haunted because of his Azkaban experience?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The art is beautiful but he's way too handsome for the part. He's a broken man, this Sirius is clean and it doesn't fit the character.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Uhh did y'all read the book? Yes YOUNG Sirius is described this way but when Harry meets him he's described as having wax like skin and being like a skeleton. Even when Harry sees him later Sirius is still not 100% the same as his youthful version and is said to look aged beyond his years and still looking nothing like his former self expect when he smiles and even then it's only a shadow of his former self. This was one character the movies casted right.

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Amy DeJesus
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Too young for Sirius at the time of the books, and too old for the flashbacks to high school

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Celeste Lechuza
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Needs to look more malnourished; swap malfoys structure out. Give Malfoy this level of fat in his face and give Sirius malfoys gaunt look.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This guy needs some beating up. He was in Azkaban for 12 years.

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James Tuthill
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Young Sirius, sure. This just just before prison. Otherwise, he could look a bit more weathered from his time in Azkaban.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Out of ALL wizards in the good side in this post drawn by AI, this is the hottest! Tall, dark and handsome!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

all these pictures are painting wonderful work, similarity or not is incredible the lip, eyes, wonderful

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Zach Brown
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nicely done. this definitely captures the described Slightly youthful look, and pretty close to how I picture him.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I definitely prefer his appearance on the movie better. Here he looks nothing like a guy who lived 12 years trapped in azkaban.

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Natalia Larkin
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, whenever I imagined him, I thought he looked too much like Snape, so something like this.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I keep seeing this link on other BP lists and I’m obsessed with this guy. I wish he was real.

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Sahana Rao
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1 year ago

Damn, Jesus looks angry!

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Ron Hollis
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What is final score about? I don’t see any score sheet and if so what are they voting on?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Time to change the picture and explanation of this obnoxious rerun!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did anyone else notice how (many) of the men have triangular faces 🔻

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Andy Bo Pearce
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So basically, Geralt, The Witcher, but a bit younger and with dark hair?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Having looked at all these, I think the films were exceptionally accurate, and the actors delivered spot-on portrayals.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gary Oldman would indeed have been too old of a man to play this hot Sirius Black if the casting director was casting actors who looked exactly like their book counterparts.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought he'd look like Brandon Lee in the Crow minus the make up so this is quite good

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Rosie Carlton
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought he'd look like Brandon Lee does in the Crow minus the make up so this is pretty good

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Amy DeJesus
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This guy is way too young for the time of events in the books, and a bit too old for the high-school flashbacks. This could be what he looked like in his 20s but he is NOT in his twenties during the books

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Kamron Shepard
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well he was supposed to be in his 30s. At least here he looks like it.

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Barbara Altman
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He is really good looking. Sorry Gary Oldman, but I am really liking this version of Sirius.

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Meliana Zaenudin
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's very close to what I imagine him to be. He was annoyingly too handsome in my mind. A guy that would even stand out amongst the crowd of beautiful people. The movie didn't portray that visually, but Gary Oldman is an excellent actor.

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Justin Kantner
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

to be fair, first movie wasn't that far off - as he had a less polished look there and seemed to have darker hair as well.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

just looked through all the drawings and although not bad I do not agree with the artist. They slowly become to cartoon-like. A lot of the actors in the films were who my daughters and I imagined would play the parts. Also the freckles on the Weasley family make them look like they have a bad case of blackheads.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've only read the books but I hope this is what he looks like 😎

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Aether G.
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

you - why is this the first one? youre gonna make me act up on the first one??

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Michael Jackson
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

he looks less like a person.. like in the movies he's more recognizable i guess

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Morgan Lockhart
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He looks like a rendering of a face from a found Neanderthal skull.

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Veronica H. Song
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean, Gary Oldman is soooo amazin and hot,h has been since the 80's. This guy is very hot, but I wouldn't call Gary Oldman "a miss" 🤣

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes! I mean Gary Oldman was fantastic in the movie, but this depiction in this picture is spot on to what I had imagined.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He looks like the man on every cover of those drugstore romance novels.

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Marita Berndt
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't think he was supposed to be handsome ( which this guy is, obviously...) or was he?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is how I imagined him when I first read the book. Gary What’s-his-face didn’t d it for me.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No one else's version of what the characters look like matters, apart from the author who created them and the person reading the book, who has their own version of what the character looks like..

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Of all the characters, Voldemort, is the only one who looks like the character we watch on the movies. I much prefer the chosen characters brought to us on screen.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They look like they're from a video game not something you could read out of a book

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Kim Pacheco
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was never happy with the looks of Black but then I told myself he spent all that time in prison sooooo

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Too handsome. He was described, like Bellatrix Lestrange, as having lost his looks to his time in Azkaban.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The actor I think did a good job I still love the Harry Potter movies

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He looks like the guy from the show messiah. I think Gary Oldman was gorgeous and great in that role

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The character aways look better in the book than they do the movies I'm not shore why

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can the book's description be posted for reference? Most books that I've read aren't nearly detailed enough to create a detailed picture such as this without a lot of filling in the gaps by the reader.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Sirius is described as a tall man with long, black hair and grey eyes. Several times during the series, Sirius is stated to be very good-looking and "carelessly handsome" prior to his imprisonment; Harry also noted that as a teenager, Sirius always had a slightly spoiled, haughty look on his face." - HP Wiki

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ummmmmm. He looks like some sort of…. Gothic…. Punk. Bruh.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This looks a bit too young. This guy looks more like a 25-year-old than a guy in his mid-30s who has been wasting away in Azkaban for over a decade.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hah, lol, nah. Much more skinny than Garry Oldman, thats corect, but definitly not so young looking and handsome and sane, sorry.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gary Oldman was GREAT as Sirius Black! Have to cast actual "Actors" who know how to act. Gary Oldman was kick-ass as Dracula.

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Bored Panda got in touch with the author of this idea to learn more about her and this project. The woman revealed that she's a 28-year-old "nerd" living in Melbourne. She has been a huge "Potterhead" since grade school. "I basically grew up with Harry, Ron, and Hermoine and remember waiting in line at midnight for the release of each book."

"I came up with the idea to recreate the characters when I tried to find some fanworks of Hermione. I watched the movies and though I like Emma Watson, I always thought she was too gorgeous to be Hermione. I couldn't find any renditions of her that I thought were accurate so I ended up making her myself. People seemed to enjoy it so much that I decided to make more characters."

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While some characters look similar to the ones one sees in the movies, others look nothing like them. For MsBananaAnna, Sirius was the one she personally liked the most. "I thought that was plucked straight from my head. Artbreeder can be pretty limiting in what you can do and can be a bit twiddly so not all of the characters came out as I wanted, but I thought Sirius came out as I imagined him! Dark and regally handsome."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sure they give her realistic looking green eyes, while giving Harry those florescent orbs.

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The recreations of Harry Potter characters got a lot of attention on Reddit (here and here) where MsBananaAnna (or, as she calls herself on Reddit, lettuceown) posted them.

What looks are your favorites? Leave a comment and let us know!

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Cho Chang

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Her name though. 🤦‍♀️ When every other girl has a nice / interesting / exotic name the only Asian girl has the worst most stereotypical name going.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Still upset there was not more of him. He works with dragons! Dragons!! He looks handsome in this recreation, too.

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Lucius Malfoy

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kinda looks like an adult Tom Felton. Which makes sense of course.

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Ronald Weasley

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Bellatrix Lestrange

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one really reminds me of an actor or actress. I can't really name it? It's like a mixture of famous people I know but I can't tell them apart. SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP.

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Petunia Dursley

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I forgot that Petunia was blonde. Odd that they wouldn't just make her wear a wig for her scenes.

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Merope Riddle (Voldemort's Mother)

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why did the AI make wall-eyed? Was that described in the book? Book 6 isn't my fave so I've not read it enough to remember.((people have already pointed out the description that I wasn't recalling. Kinda don't need multiple comments restating the same thing))

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Longer hair. Earring with a fang. More cool, less dorky. Probably got confused with Percy.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, sorry, but even before seeing Maggie Smith in that role she was the spitting image for my personal McGonagall.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Forgive me, but she reminds me of an angry pig for reasons I cannot explain.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seriously where are everyones cheeks?! No one is fed in the books apparently. Chiseled jawlines and sunken cheeks.

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