When in spring 2019 a fire nearly destroyed Notre-Dame, one of Paris' most recognizable landmarks, president Emmanuel Macron vowed to restore the building and reopen it to the public by 2024, the year Paris would host the Olympics. Though the cathedral wasn't completed in time for the athletic competitions, it still opened its doors in December 2024, meeting an ambitious deadline.
At the centre of the effort was a cutting-edge software donated by U.S. tech company Autodesk, which the reconstruction team used to digitally map the Notre-Dame, and carefully plan each step of the rebuilding process. "We decided to create a 3D model of Notre-Dame that would help to digitally build on the computer before you could build physically, so you can anticipate a lot of the errors early on and fail on the computer, make mistakes on the computer instead of on the job site." – says Autodesk's Nicolas Mangon, VP of AEC Strategy.
Mashable is your source for the latest in tech, culture, and entertainment.
Subscribe to Mashable:
Follow us:
Check out
Facebook:
Twitter:
Instagram:
|
The news doesn’t stop when markets close...
President Trump details US/Israel succes...
David Gura, Christina Ruffini, and Lisa ...
Puck News Washington correspondent Abby ...
Senator Mike Rounds, a member of the Arm...
Furby was never meant to replace your do...
Furby followed one simple rule: Don’t do...
A group of doctors that Jeffrey Epstein ...
Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Bill Clinton...
Neither the U.S. nor Israel has yet take...
Season 3 of Version History is here and ...
Amid global crackdowns on cocaine traffi...
On the March episode of ITK, ARK CEO/CIO...
----------------------------------------...