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If you ever wondered how anyone can read those old gravestones you are not alone. Rubbings work to a point but when the stones are really, really old there is only one thing to do; call in Carnegie Mellon. Those rascals should be studying but instead they are applying their talents to a local church. It seems they have come across an interesting technique to scan gravestones in 3D and see through centuries of crusty build up. The results are quite astonishing. If you look at the picture below the left side is the gravestone as you would normally see it and the right is what Carnegie Mellon can see. Amazing! Of course that is not really what they are studying. It is something to do with 3D reconstruction techniques. I have no clue what that means but it is interesting to see an application in the real world that might just be useful to me one day. Of course I don’t have a 3D scanner or the special software it takes but one day that will be a pocket scanner that every Genealogist must have.
This picture is courtesy of the BBC. If anyone has a problem with it just contact me and I will take it down. Pretty impressive though. Comments |
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