Algorithms To Reassemble Ancient Map of Rome

MattJ writes "The BBC reports on a Stanford project to reconstruct pieces of an ancient, detailed, 60' by 43' 'map of Rome carved into stone slabs about AD 210 but later broken into fragments.' ... So complicated is the jumble of parts that for decades the map pieces have been referred to as 'the biggest jigsaw in the world.' Researchers developed algorithms to assemble the 3D fragments of the map, and have had some success."

Comments

So...

[Anonymous Coward]

Once it's reassembled, we'll be able to frag each other on it?

Sweet.

a Crack?

[arcanumas]

Hmm, does this qualify as a 'crack', a 'cheat' or a 'trainer' for jigsaws?

It should be easy.....

[Neck_of_the_Woods]

Just do all the outside pieces first, and work your way in.

Misread

[QuantumFTL]

I thought the title said "Algorithms to Resemble Ancient Maps of Rome".

I thought someone had peeked at my perl code!

*ducks*

Re:Pretty cool idea anyway

[Scarblac]

and speed up the field of archaeology, which has in some cases been painfully slow.

Yeah, I heard they sometimes only get around to researching stuff centuries after the fact...