absolutely amazing

This technology is simply astounding.

There’s an interesting little discussion on the Sheldon comic/blog about how ‘time’ metadata might be included in this sort of representation – if the structure of a thing is drastically changed at a point in time, do you include all past and present forms of that structure? Do you somehow combine them to a Platonic ideal?

For example, assuming that we had this kind of technology running throughout history – what would the middle of Jerusalem look like? The original temple, or the one after the Israelites came back from exile (Ezra 3:12, whose glory was vastly inferior), or just one wall – or the dome of the rock?

Hmmm.