MIT graduate Alex Kachkine has pioneered a physical painting restoration method using a digitally constructed reversible laminate mask. Leveraging computer vision and color-accurate pigment printing layered on polymer films, this approach infills over 5,600 damaged painting losses with a process roughly 66 times faster than conventional inpainting. Implementing ethical conservation principles quantitatively, this technology offers conservators unprecedented precision and efficiency in restoring extensively damaged historic artworks, broadening access to preservation efforts otherwise limited by cost and labor intensity.