Robber barons bought dozens of medieval European buildings

Re:Robber barons bought dozens of medieval European building... by Qworg on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:40PM (#10542739)

After spending some time in Turkey, I'm fascinated by this problem as well. I've not seen anything though.

My thought is scan all of the rubble and have the computer attempt a best fit.

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Re:Robber barons bought dozens of medieval European building... by Someone on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:51PM (#10542833)

That has been attempted for a Roman world map. See http://formaurbis.stanford.edu/docs/FURdb.html, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forma_Urbis_Romae (unfortunately, most of that map likely is lost forever, so it's reconstruction will remain fragmentary)

"computer reconstruction of pottery" also gives several papers on the subject.

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Re:Robber barons bought dozens of medieval European building... by a3n on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @07:11PM (#10543729)

Reconstructing shredded Stazi documents is a similar problem.

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