Wednesday, October 03, 2007

memorial inscriptions

BBC NEWS | Technology | Scans reveal lost gravestone text
Illegible words on church headstones could be read once more thanks to a scan technology developed in the US.

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon university are making high resolution 3D scans of tombstones to reveal the carved patterns in the stone.

A computer matches the patterns to a database of signature carvings which reveals the words.

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