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Ready for Your Close-Up, Mr. Lincoln? Mount Rushmore to Get 3-D Scan

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« on: August 31, 2009, 02:22:23 am »

August 24, 2009, 11:49 am
Ready for Your Close-Up, Mr. Lincoln? Mount Rushmore to Get 3-D Scan
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Mount Rushmore National Monument in South Dakota.
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An American company is teaming up with two British groups to begin recording three-dimensional models of global historical sites that could be used to restore the sites if they are damaged by natural or man-made conditions, The Guardian reported. CyArk, an Orinda, Calif.-based nonprofit, will begin working with Historic Scotland, the Scottish government’s heritage agency, and the Glasgow School of Art in September to produce a 3-D model of Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota that would be accurate to about one-tenth of an inch. That model can then be used by archaeologists to repair the granite portraits of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. CyArk, which hopes to create 500 models of famous locations and monuments around the world, said that other sites could be at risk, including the Acropolis in Athens, which is threatened by acid rain, and Machu Picchu in Peru, which suffers from excessive tourism. The scan of Mount Rushmore is expected to be completed in October.

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