There is an interesting Google talk video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxNg-tXPPWc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxNg-tXPPWc from Tom Malzbender, who wa

There is an interesting Google talk video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxNg-tXPPWc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxNg-tXPPWc from Tom Malzbender, who was a senior researcher from HP labs and developed a method called Polynomial Texture Mapping. This method helped him to see more details in the surface of objects and more specifically in Antikythera Mechanism.