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I'd like to start with a short story.
我想先講個故事。
It's about a little boy
有個小男孩
whose father was a history buff
他父親是個歷史愛好者，
and who used to take him by the hand
常牽著他的手
to visit the ruins of an ancient metropolis
去造訪他們小鎮外圍的
on the outskirts of their camp.
一個古城市遺跡。
They would always stop by to visit
他們總是去看
these huge winged bulls that used to guard
那個守著古城門的
the gates of that ancient metropolis,
帶翅膀的牛，
and the boy used to be scared
那時的小男孩
of these winged bulls,
在害怕那些帶翅膀的牛的同時，
but at the same time they excited him.
也很興奮看到這些。
And the dad used to use those bulls
父親就用這些牛
to tell the boy stories about
給小男孩講
that civilization and their work.
那個文明的故事和他們的工作
Let's fast-forward to the
讓我們“快進”到數十年后的
San Francisco Bay Area many decades later,
舊金山灣區，
where I started a technology company
我在那兒成立了一個家公司
that brought the world its first
研發出了世界上第一個
3D laser scanning system.
3D鐳射掃描系統。
Let me show you how it works.
現在讓我為您展示一下它是怎樣工作的。
Female Voice: Long range laser scanning
女聲：長距離鐳射掃描
by sending out a pulse that's a laser beam of light.
通過發出一束激光。
The system measures the beam's time of flight,
系統測量光束傳播時間，
recording the time it takes for the light
紀錄下它從接觸到一個表面
to hit a surface and make its return.
到返回的時間。
With two mirrors, the scanner calculates
掃描儀通過兩個鏡子計算
the beam's horizontal and vertical angles,
光束的水平垂直角度，
giving accurate x, y, and z coordinates.
得到精確的X，Y，Z軸距。
The point is then recorded
這個點就被
into a 3D visualization program.
3D可視化軟件記錄下來。
All of this happens in seconds.
所有這些只要幾秒就能完成。
Ben Kacyra: You can see here,
本·凱薩拉：可以看到，
these systems are extremely fast.
系統運行速度非常快。
They collect millions of points at a time
能一次性
with very high accuracy
高精度高像素地
and very high resolution.
收集上百萬個點。
A surveyor with traditional survey tools
一個使用傳統工具的測量員
would be hard-pressed to produce
要在一整天內繪制500個點
maybe 500 points in a whole day.
都力不能及。
These babies would be producing
而這些小家伙
something like ten thousand points a second.
能在一秒內繪制一萬個點。
So, as you can imagine,
你能想到，
this was a paradigm shift
這不僅是測量和建筑業
in the survey and construction
一個范式轉變
as well as in reality capture industry.
也是攝影攝像產業的新標桿。
Approximately ten years ago,
大約十年前，
my wife and I started a foundation to do good,
我和我妻子建立了一個慈善基金，
and right about that time,
那時候，
the magnificent Bamiyan Buddhas,
巴米揚大佛，
hundred and eighty foot tall in Afghanistan,
一座矗立在阿富汗的180英尺高的佛像，
were blown up by the Taliban.
毀于塔利班之手。
They were gone in an instant.
頃刻之內佛像被毀。
And unfortunately, there was
不幸的是，
no detailed documentation of these Buddhas.
沒有任何關于這些佛像的詳細資料保存下來。
This clearly devastated me,
這深深觸動了我，
and I couldn't help but wonder about
我不由得想到
the fate of my old friends, the winged bulls,
我的老朋友 那頭帶翅膀的牛的命運，
and the fate of the many, many
還有世界各地
heritage sites all over the world.
其他文物古跡的命運。
Both my wife and I
我和我妻子
were so touched by this
受此激發
that we decided to
決定
expand the mission of our foundation
將基金承擔的業務范圍
to include digital heritage preservation
延伸到世界文物古跡的
of world sites.
數字化保存。
We called the project CyArk,
我們稱之為“數字方舟”計劃，
which stands for Cyber Archive.
代表著數字檔案
To date, with the help of
迄今為止
a global network of partners,
在全球合作伙伴的幫助下，
we've completed close to fifty projects.
我們已經完成了近50個項目
Let me show you some of them:
這是其中一部分：
Chichen Itza,
奇琴伊察，
Rapa Nui --
復活節島
and what you're seeing here
這里你看到的是
are the cloud of points --
數據點集合—
Babylon,
巴比倫，
Rosslyn Chapel,
羅斯林教堂，
Pompeii,
龐貝遺址
and our latest project, Mt. Rushmore,
和最近的一個項目:總統山
which happened to be one of
這是最具挑戰的
our most challenging projects.
項目之一。
As you see here, we had to develop
可以看到，我們得開發
a special rig to bring the scanner
一種特殊鉆機
up close and personal.
人工作業把掃描儀戴上去
