Editing Final Report 2012 (section)

===Project Objectives===

The ultimate goal of this project is to help the police to solve the mystery. Whilst this is a rather lofty and likely unachievable goal, by working towards it we may be able to provide useful insights into the case and develop techniques and technologies that are applicable beyond the scope of this single case. We have taken a multi-pronged approach to give a broader perspective and draw in different aspects that, taken in isolation, may be meaningless but taken as a whole become significant. The two main focuses of this project are cracking the code found in the Rubaiyat, and trying to identify the victim. To further break down cracking the code, the web crawler and pattern matcher are used to trawl the internet for meaning in the letters of the code, and directly interrogating the code with various ciphers to try and find out what is written. In order to be able to identify the victim so long after his death, we need to recreate how he might have looked when he was alive, firstly by making a three-dimensional reconstruction from a bust taken after he was autopsied, and then by manipulating the resulting model to create a more life-like representation, complete with hair, skin and eye colours (which can be found in the coroner's report).