Notre-Dame Rises From the Ashes

1510.394 - 1537.622 Michael Kimmelman

And there was a Belgian scholar who had used LIDAR to do a digital scan of the cathedral from all different sorts of points and gathered like a billion points of data. It was amazing, which gave the workers a map, effectively, of the cathedral down to the width of a pencil eraser. So the reconstruction could be extraordinarily faithful. What I learned from the workers was that each—