{"id":89620,"date":"2019-04-17T07:42:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T14:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/incredible-3d-laser-scans-saved-in-2015-could-help-rebuild-the-notre-dame"},"modified":"2019-04-17T07:42:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T14:42:35","slug":"incredible-3d-laser-scans-saved-in-2015-could-help-rebuild-the-notre-dame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/incredible-3d-laser-scans-saved-in-2015-could-help-rebuild-the-notre-dame","title":{"rendered":"Incredible 3D Laser Scans Saved in 2015 Could Help Rebuild The Notre Dame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jAi29udFMKw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The world watched in horror Monday night while flames tore through the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. As fire consumed the roof and toppled its iconic central spire, it seemed as though the historic church could be lost forever \u2014 but it\u2019s possible, thanks to cutting-edge imagining technology, that all hope may not be lost.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the meticulous work of Vassar College\u2019s art historian Andrew Tallon, every exquisite detail and mysterious clue to the building\u2019s 13th-century construction was recorded in a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2015\/06\/150622-andrew-tallon-notre-dame-cathedral-laser-scan-art-history-medieval-gothic\/\">digital archive<\/a> in 2015 using laser imaging.<\/p>\n<p>These records have revolutionized our understanding of how the spectacular building was built \u2014 and could provide a template for how Paris could rebuild.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/before-the-fire-an-art-historian-had-taken-amazing-3d-scans-of-notre-dame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world watched in horror Monday night while flames tore through the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. As fire consumed the roof and toppled its iconic central spire, it seemed as though the historic church could be lost forever \u2014 but it\u2019s possible, thanks to cutting-edge imagining technology, that all hope may not be lost. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}