P Fried Posted October 24, 2018 Report Share Posted October 24, 2018 In talking to some museum conservators, the notion of using 3D software to “put back together" broken ceramic or other artifacts has come up several times. Using the regular 3D programs for this can be very tedious. I was wondering whether there was any software that specifically addressed taking a bunch of models of fragments and efficiently finding how they might fit together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Martin Posted October 24, 2018 Report Share Posted October 24, 2018 P Fried, I don't know how well it would translate to such a context, but there has been work in the computer vision field trying, and succeeding, in solving jigsaws, so there might be something there. Suspect they're geared around 2D, but might be possible to use them to produced an 'unwrapped' solution? Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P Fried Posted October 25, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2018 Thank you; excellent idea. Can you point me to a link, paper or group? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Martin Posted October 26, 2018 Report Share Posted October 26, 2018 Hi P fried, I don't know if there is anything off-the-shelf yet, but a couple of articles on computer-vision jigsaw solving: https://www.i-programmer.info/news/181-algorithms/4380-faster-jigsaw-solving.html https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220843444_An_Innovative_Algorithm_for_Solving_Jigsaw_Puzzles_Using_Geometrical_and_Color_Features Another related area which is receiving attention is the DARPA Shredder Challenge - reconstructing documents from images of shredded strips or fragments. Let us know how you get on! cheers/Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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