Help Solve This Ancient Puzzle-Turned-Video Game

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Scottish researchers struggling to reassemble an ancient carving are seeking help by putting them online as a browser-based jigsaw puzzle.

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[teh_chem]

That's interesting. But surely with computational programs that calculate molecular interactions or chemical reaction dynamics, there are similar programs that can put together broken fragments in a best-match orientation. Unless this is also a study of crowdsourcing and collaborative efforts, then I can see that. But to simply re-create an artifact, eh.

 

[thechief73]

Wow, the title caught my eye, but imminently reminded me of Stargate Universe Ep.1 where the gate key to Destiny was hidden in a computer game. The show had a rough start but IMHO could have been by far the best saga in the Stargate series. I still don't get how these execs. decide what shows to can. Neilson seems very crude to me. Wonder if these scientist realized this?

 

[Narcissistic_Martyr]

I love these sorts of things. Video games are a great way to use superior human pattern recognition abilities to solve incredibly complicated problems.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

...there are similar programs that can put together broken fragments in a best-match orientation...

No matter how good the software, the human brain's pattern matching abilities will always win out.

 

[peltac]

First thing i thought of aswell chief! 😛 I thought for a second they may have actually created the game from SGU...oww well i will continue to live in hope 😛