The clone of Notre-Dame de Paris comes to life. “It's a double that represents the cathedral in the digital world. Not just as a building but as a center that brings together human activities. We are in the process of generating a system that allows access to information and memorizing the activities carried out on the construction site, "explains Livio de Luca, research director at CNRS and coordinator of the working group on digital data to 20 Minutes of the scientific site for the restoration of Notre-Dame de Paris. A Notre-Dame CNRS-Ministry of Culture scientific site, developed in collaboration with the Etablissement Public Notre-Dame-de-Paris, responsible for its reconstruction.
Nearly a year after the fire that ravaged part of the building, the CNRS unveils the "digital double" of Notre-Dame de Paris and while the site is currently dormant due to the coronavirus crisis . The objective of such an approach: to bring together in a collaborative platform all of the past and future knowledge of the building, notes the CNRS. A way to follow the evolution of the monument through the ages. A tool that can be used for the work of companions but also architects.
"A historic issue"
"It is a digital ecosystem that the CNRS scientific site is building by bringing together all the digital resources available for the historical study of the cathedral, for the restoration site and also for scientific studies", continues Livio from Luca.
This representation is based on and concentrates data which brings together photographs - some made by drones - laser surveys and other surveys carried out in particular after the fire or even iconographic sources and even drawings. This platform thus makes it possible to gather all this information in order to observe, analyze, measure, and make annotations. "This really allows us to follow the transformations that are taking place on the cathedral by gathering very useful information for the restoration site," comments Livio de Luca.
According to the CNRS, "collecting this data within the same" digital ark "is a historic issue. A veritable archive of stone, wood and stained glass, Notre-Dame illustrates the know-how that has followed one another under its vaults or at the foot of its towers for eight hundred and fifty years. "
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