London non-profit’s work gives Canadians unprecedented view of Vimy war memorial [Video]

Digitally preserving Canadian history is a process that takes a lot of time, expertise, and computing power, and for Zenon Andrusyszyn, that makes it all the more rewarding to see that hard work made available to the public.

Earlier this year, Andrusyszyn’s non-profit group, CANADIGM, spent more than a week creating digital replicas of 15 maquettes, or prototype sculptures, created roughly a century ago for the construction of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.

Late last month, those 3D scans were unveiled as part of an interactive online project led by the Vimy Foundation, in collaboration with the Canadian War Museum and the Military Communications and Electronics Museum.

“The fellows that were working on it, they’re all volunteers, so they were really dedicated to get this work done, and they wanted to do it well,” said Andrusyszyn, CANADIGM’s executive director and founder.

Andrusyszyn was among those on hand for the project’s unveiling, held on …