Wednesday, December 4, 2013

CyArk: Preserving world heritage sites with the latest 3D laser scanning technology

Hanging off the nose of one of the massive granite US presidents at Mount Rushmore is something we normally associate with an Alfred Hitchcock movie. But these are the lengths you must go to if you want to save the world’s most stunning heritage sites.
The combination of a hammer and chisel is no longer the best way to preserve the minute detail that has made these monuments so great. An ambitious plan to scan hundreds of the planet’s best cultural spaces with a 3D laser is a plot old Hitch himself would have been proud to put on the big screen.

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