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When talking about the terracotta army, you may think if the lifelike Qin soldiers. However, when they first came out of the earth, they were fragmented and had to be restored. For many years, the repairing was done manually and was slow. In order to accelerate the work, scientists are now trying a new method of restoration, aided by computers.
Now, the number of figurines in the Qin Figurine Museum is about 8,000. To restore all of them would need 100 years based on present manpower and working speed.
With the help of computer science, a professor in the Computer Department of the Northwest University adopted a new method called graph visualization to change the situation of slow restoration. Graph visualization is a technology that uses computer programs to process and display things invisible to us in the past.
 We believe that in future the computer-aided restoration of the terracotta army figurines will bring new hope to the restoration of other relics.
(CCTV-9, Nature and Science, December 19)
(by Fan Rong)
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| Editor: Zhao Xuan CCTV.com |
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