Lest we forget

3D Model

“Paix et Liberté ne sont jamais acquises”

This commemorative stela, located in Santec (France), was raised in honor of the 128 sailors who lost ther life aboard the HMCS Athabaskan in the night of April 19th, 1944.

The Athabaskan was a canadian destroyer which was sunk by the German torpedo boat T24 during an interception mission in the English Channel, and now lies at 90m depth.

If you are curious about the fate of this ship, you’ll find more interesting information here and there.

The scan was created from 96 pictures taken with a Canon Eos-1100D, processed with Colmap and OpenMVS, and re-textured and optimized to a lower resolution (~15k triangles) with Blender and BakeMyScan.