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And here I thought this only happened in Gargoyles. Cultural appropriation has never since been this visceral.

I was fascinated by the description of 10,000+ pieces of a monastery in a warehouse. It seems like such a perfect problem for modern technology. If anyone has any such stories of ruins being reconstructed in computers, please share.

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The city of Dresden rebuilt a destroyed cathedral from the ruins. I believe that they used as much original material as possible. The entire city is amazing, but checkout the Frauenkirche

http://www.goethe.de/kue/flm/prj/kub/std/en3982506.htm

http://www.frauenkirche-dresden.de/en/building/reconstructio...

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.

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.

Reconstructing shredded Stazi documents is a similar problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi#Reassembling_the_destroy...

Various temples in Cambodia:

http://www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/groups/ngg/AngkorWat/

I also think it was Ta Prohm that had some plaques depicting the computer reconstructions they used to help rebuild walkways out of piles of rubble.

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