Lasers in Scotland — "We're no longer a million miles from the 'Star Trek' holodeck":
Long story (by Michael Kimmelman in the November 5, 2009 New York Times) short: Experts from the Glasgow School of Art are on the bleeding edge of 3-D digital laser scanning technology, using it to create representations of now-decaying structures and buildings as they originally appeared.
Slide show here.
Above and below, Rosslyn Chapel in digital representations based on 3-D laser scanning.
Below,
the actual building, which has been covered by a canopy for many years in an attempt to dry it out.
Wrote Kimmelman, "A virtual past... never dies."
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