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The stained glass windows of the cathedral in Winchester, UK were smashed in the civil war. After the war they picked up the pieces and rebuilt the windows, but

The stained glass windows of the cathedral in Winchester, UK were smashed in the civil war. After the war they picked up the pieces and rebuilt the windows, but they no longer make a coherent picture. It would be amazing to use tech like this to reassemble them properly.

geor9e 3y ago
Hmm, they were smashed in the 1640s and rebuilt in 1660, so there is probably no record of the original. So it's going to be a lot harder than a banknote. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Winchester_Cathedral_Stained_Glass_1_%285696994163%29.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Winchest... The lead borders follow smooth arcs, so the glass may have been ground down to fit the existing shaped holes, causing a lot to be lost. The caption seems to suggest all of the windows were broken, but only one side of the church was reconstructed with all of the pieces. So that's 3/4ths lost there, possibly. I could see computer vision finding the orientation of symbols and faces, and gathering similar patterns. I'm not sure how much farther it would get though.