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Story updated on 27 November 2024<\/em> To celebrate Historic Preservation Month (in May annually), we took a look at important moments in history digitally preserved for appreciation and study.\u00a0<\/span> During his remarks to a joint-session of the United States Congress<\/span> sixty years ago today<\/span>, May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy committed his Administration and the country \u201cto achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth.\u201d\u00a0<\/span> Meeting the challenge, the world watched as members of the Apollo 11 crew took their first steps on the moon. Eight days and nearly one million miles traveled, the Apollo 11 command module splashed down into the Atlantic Ocean.<\/span> Housed today at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC, the Apollo 11 command module is a reminder of a moment when millions of the Earth\u2019s citizens paused together with great wonder, imagining the new possible.<\/span> Autodesk and the Smithsonian partnered to <\/span>digitize the Apollo 11 capsule<\/span><\/a>, bringing the physical world to the virtual world \u2013 fostering an opportunity for a new generation to experience the most intimate details of the vehicle which carried those astronauts on their solitary journey to the moon and safely home.<\/span> There are other moments in modern history for which the world collectively stood in awe at a single event. However, not all were celebrations of humankind\u2019s achievement as was the Apollo moon landing.<\/span> <\/p>\n

Resurrecting Notre-Dame de Paris<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Five years ago, in 2019, many across the world witnessed the fire which tore through the roof of the 900-year-old Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral.<\/span> Autodesk has been supporting the effort to raise the <\/span>Notre Dame<\/span><\/a>\u2019s cathedral spires once again to their rightful place on the Parisian skyline.<\/span> In 2021, Autodesk became an official patron of Notre Dame and in doing so provide design and construction solutions, including expertise in Building Information Modeling (<\/span>BIM<\/span><\/a>), an intelligent data and 3D geometric modeling process and technical expertise.<\/span> In addition, in June\u202f2019,\u202fAutodesk commissioned a pre-fire BIM model to create an intelligent 3D rendering of the cathedral. This offers\u202freconstruction stakeholders the insight and tools to make more informed design and reconstruction decisions throughout the process.<\/span> Autodesk\u2019s\u202f3D model of Notre Dame\u202fnow\u202fserves as the basis for the\u202fredesign and\u202freconstruction\u202fof the Cathedral.\u202f\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span> <\/p>\n

Ancient Cities to Sunken Ships<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Autodesk was\u202fa\u202fco-leader\u202fin\u202fthe\u202fdigital\u202fpreservation of\u202f<\/span>Volterra<\/span><\/a>, a 3,000-year-old medieval city in Italy. One of the world\u2019s oldest continuously lived in cities, Volterra\u2019s approximately 7,000 residents reside among artifacts dating as far back as the 4<\/span>th<\/span> Century BC.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>

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Using Autodesk reality capture technologies, the global team created this scan of the San Francesco altar in the 3,000-year-old medieval city of Volterra<\/p><\/div> Using Autodesk software and other partners\u2019 tools, the global team of technology professionals digitized almost every inch of Volterra \u2013 everything except for the still-in-use jail.<\/span> And we were able to learn more about the city, its inhabitants, and those who created Volterra over multiple millennia, including better understanding of the design techniques of a Roman amphitheater located just outside the walls of the city.<\/span> Autodesk\u2019s collaboration came at a time when destructive earthquakes in Italy and elsewhere around the world were stealing the headlines and only emphasized the need to digitize the past.<\/span> Some historic sites are born not from nature, but rather from conflict. Autodesk is honored to have partnered with the United States National Park Service (NPS) to digitally preserve the\u202f<\/span>USS Arizona<\/span><\/a>\u202fsite in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.<\/span>\u202fOn December 7, 1941, the USS Arizona was sent to the bottom of Pearl Harbor following the attack which drew the United States into the second world war, officially.\u00a0<\/span> The USS Arizona preservation effort meant more than protecting the history but telling the story of the final resting site for hundreds of sailors whose remains are entombed in the ship.<\/span> In a Design & Make <\/a><\/span>article, Scott Pawlowski, the National Park Service\u2019s (NPS) chief of cultural and natural resources for the WWII Valor in the Pacific Monument at Pearl Harbor, noted, \u201cWe average 1.8 million visitors here every year, but there are countless more interested in our story who will never make it to Hawaii in their lifetimes.\u201d Scott expressed his enthusiasm for the opportunity to enable virtual experiences for those who may otherwise not have the means to visit the site in Hawaii.\u00a0<\/span> <\/p>\n

A Gift to the Future<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

The virtual preservation of our history is a digital gift to the future. Protecting the important relics of the past enables future study, appreciation, and perhaps a greater understanding of local and global events.<\/span> Perhaps increasing our accessibility and understanding of our often-intertwined history will one day offer us a path to better understanding and appreciation of one another\u2014to imagine the new possible and its ability to connect us.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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