Wow!
This is exactly what I was speculating on in my other post. Should have known someone was already a mile ahead of me. This is so close to what I was talking about that I suspect that subconsciously I had read about this and it stuck. Hell, it even looks like a soccer ball!
If I were running the show at NASA, I think this little gadget would get top priority and become standard equipment in future Shuttle flights. I wonder how hard it would be to preprogram it so that it could inspect the Shuttle on its own and flag the crew if the surface of the orbiter didn't match a previous texture map in its brain.