Professor Who Scanned All of Notre Dame Died Months Before Fire
Andrew Tallon (Vassar College/Columbia University)/ Few people outside certain techie and cultural heritage circles had ever heard about self-described ‘gadget geek’ Andrew Tallon’s work until Monday, when Notre Dame cathedral in Paris Tallon, a Belgium-born Vassar College art professor who died six months ago at the age of 49, of terminal brain cancer, was the first—and the last—person to digitally scan the entire . He used special lasers to create one billion data points, which he did as a labor of love, driven by obsession. His precise ...
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