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Lyle,
SRI has been using a 3D scanner and imaging software to record the human remains from the Joint Courts Complex project in Tucson. In some instances we've recreated pelvic girdles and crania from scans of individual bones. The problem with the CSI episode is not that this can't be done (it can), but in their hour-long format, they can't show how long it takes to do this (many, many hours!). So, as usual in TV land, there is an element of truth, but also considerable license in the details.
Marcy
Marlesa Gray, M.A., RPA
Director, Historic Program
Statistical Research, Inc.
PO Box 31865
Tucson, AZ 85751-1865
ph 520-882-6903
fax 520-882-6904
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lyle E. Browning
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 8:33 PM
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Subject: TV Software Question
A couple of weeks ago I watched an episode of CSI NY. A memory stick
cover had been stomped and was in pieces. Each piece of it was scanned
and software manipulated it and put it back together.
Is this totally Hollywood or is this a potentially wonderful reality
for those of us who have excavated kilns for the edification of our
archaeological souls as a former mentor phrased it and have thousands
of potshards to mend?
Lyle Browning, RPA
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