Courtesy CNN Style
Backup Ukraine: Democratizing Cultural Preservation
CNN Style takes a quick look at a brand new effort to enlist the public’s help in preserving cultural heritage as it is being quickly destroyed by conflict in Ukraine. A free app, Backup Ukraine, allows users to easily capture objects and spaces by using photogrammetry and LIDAR techniques to create 3D scans. The project, hosted by Polycam and supported by UNESCO, scours scans uploaded with Ukrainian coordinates and immediately adds them to a growing database. The effort even provides learning resources to improve the quality of scanned artifacts.