**Welcome to [The Hallwyl Museum](https://goo.gl/qbZSY4) in Stockholm, Sweden.**

Once the home of [Walther](https://goo.gl/79nUeT) and [Wilhelmina von Hallwyl](https://goo.gl/Y8iiJs).

The Vestibule was the main entrance where both the Hallwyls and their guests entered the house. When you walk up the stairs you will see portraits of mainly Walther von Hallwyl´s ancestors. 

The portraits here date from the 16th to the 19th century. Walther and Wilhelmina inherited the portraits along with the family's main seat, the medieval castle [Schloss Hallwil](https://goo.gl/dsWmoe) in Switzerland. 

As they wanted to leave the castle with all its furnishings intact the ancestral portraits were copied by the artist [Julius Kronberg](https://goo.gl/PS1hEg). The originals were sent back to Switzerland when the Stockholm house was bequeathed to the Swedish state. 

![](https://i.imgur.com/mAilg0r.jpg)

The images for this project were captured using an [array](https://goo.gl/ePHjDr) of four Panasonic Lumix GX8 cameras.

The Upper Vestibule

Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.[1] The game is played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is believed to have originated in India sometime before the 7th century. The game was derived from the Indian game chaturanga, which is also the likely ancestor of the Eastern strategy games xiangqi, janggi, and shogi. Chess reached Europe by the 9th century, due to the Umayyad conquest of Hispania. The pieces assumed their current powers in Spain in the late 15th century; the rules were standardized in the 19th century.

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Chess Board

Homo heidelbergensis, -700 000 to -200 000 BCE, Africa and Europe. Musée du cinquantenaire (Brussels, Belgium). Made with ReMake and ReCap Pro from AutoDesk.

This ancestor was a great migrator. Some populations migrated to Europe, where they gave Homo neanderthalis; while those who remained in Africa have evolved into Modern Men (Homo sapiens). This period delivered wooden hunting weapons that were machined with good sharp stone tools. This implies a society that begins to structure itself to make the tools, the weapons, to process the slaughtered animals.

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Homo Heidelbergensis

Cast of female figurine in limestone from the Loess Station at Willendorf, Lower Austria. Dates to 23,000 BC or earlier.

These ‘Venus’ figures start to be carved by our modern ancestors over 30,000 years ago and may have been religious or fertility symbols.

Object in the Royal Pavilion & Museums' archaeological collections, digitised by the University of Brighton's Cultural Informatics team.

Accession number: R3411/56

Venus of Willendorf

*Canis lupus familiaris*
The dog is a domesticated carnivoran of the family *Canidae*. It is part of the wolf-like canids and is the most widely abundant terrestrial carnivore.The dog and the extant gray wolf are sister taxa as modern wolves are not closely related to the wolves that were first domesticated, which implies that the direct ancestor of the dog is extinct. The dog was the first species to be domesticated, and has been selectively bred over millennia for various behaviors, sensory capabilities and physical attributes.

Accession number: 33.16

Domestic Dog Skull

The classical Nepali masks always represent deities or demons and never the dead or the ancestors. Besides, masks are more often used in processions and in rituals rather than in theatrical performances.

Nepalese tribal mask

Over 5 years ago I've uploaded a model of an arrow. It was a pretty bad arrow but somehow it scored 2.5k downloads.

Today, during my slumber, one of my Lusatian ancestors haunted my dream.

**AND HE SAID**

> Mikhail, that arrow you made 5 years ago is so awful you made your entire family a laughing stock. Where are the strings? How is it secured? And why is there no space behind the feathers to hold it? How do you want to shot an arrow you can't hold?

And then I realised, I have failed. My absolutely awful fletching skills dishonored my entire ancestral line. 

But no longer.

Today is the day I repent. 

**New arrow.**

Nice 100 triangles, string, smaller resolution texture while still being more detailed, reduced file size.

Oh, and I've reused the feathers, talk about recycling!

...

*I think I have inhaled too much bleach...*

Low-Poly Arrow v2.0

This is for the MasterpieceVR “Imagine And Create A Sustainable Future” competition.
This habitat is a Volaspire. It has four flying transportation pods capable of independent flight to transport small groups to the main tower. Once attached to the main tower the flight pods become propellers and the whole tower is capable of transporting over 200 passengers. The flying pods are ai controlled and have near perfect balance during flight.  When not in flight the propellers of each pod turn into large solar energy collectors and help charge the main tower. The main tower is equipped with wind turbines and solar cells. The docking station has over an acre of green space for growing food for passengers and creating organic material for four large scale 3d printers. The printers can run continuously to print new parts or replacement parts from 100% organic material grown on site. The Volaspire is an ancestor of the [geistspire](https://skfb.ly/6yEJX) of the kingdom biotronican.
All modeling done in MasterpieceVR.

Volaspire - Air Habitat/Transportation System

**Free** Thank you For the support ,Appreciate it 

* * Gascogne Pigeon Bird (domestic pigeon)Bleu de Gascogne,fitness-pigeons,Columbidae
* * Columba livia Animal Bird Breed (Aves)Pet,Cute
* * 1 Draw Calls
* *LowPoly
* * Subdivision Surface Ready
* * 4K PBR Textures 1 Material
* * Blend File 3.6.5 LTS / 4 Plus
* * USDZ File (AR Ready). Real Scale Dimension (Xcode ,Reality Composer, Keynote Ready)
* * Textures Files
* * GLB File (Unreal 5.1 Plus Native Support,Gadot)
* * Gltf File ( Spark AR, Lens Studio(SnapChat) , Effector(Tiktok) , Spline, Play Canvas,Omiverse ) Compatible
* 
* * Triangles -7907
* * Faces -4137
* * Edges -8379
* * Vertices -4256

 Diffuse, Metallic, Roughness , Normal Map ,Specular Map,AO
 ![](https://i.imgur.com/ebcGQ7j.png)
The Gascony blue has as its ancestor the rock pigeon , but it is very close in its plumage and its conformation to the woodpigeon and even more to the stock dove .

Gascogne Pigeon Bird (Lowpoly) Free

Homo erectus georgicus, the skull is dated to 1.77 million years old and it is in good condition. Museum of Natural Sciences (Brussels, Belgium). Made with CapturingReality.

The cranium was the smallest and most primitive Hominin skull ever discovered outside of Africa. In Africa, the Australopithecines and early Homo represent two distinctive evolutionary paths sharing a common ancestor. In Georgia the specimens, with a brain half the size of anatomically modern humans, were the smallest found at around 600 cm³ brain volume. The lenght is about 25 cm.

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Homo erectus georgicus

The horn of Salt Diggers Brotherhood of Wieliczka is a unique Renaissance work of art commemorating the past wealth of Kraków salt mines. It is the only historical object of its kind preserved in Poland – a genuine horn of the aurochs, an ancestor of present-day cattle (the species became extinct in Poland in the 17th century). Framed in silver, it features a number of precisely executed metalwork techniques. Weighing almost 3 kilos, it was created in Kraków in 1534. The figure shown in the horn’s base is a salt miner, depicted as Hercules wearing antique armour. This representation symbolically emphasises the hard work of the Wieliczka salt diggers, excavating the precious mineral for hundreds of years.

**For more images and further information, visit:** 
https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/273

Inventory number: ID no. MŻKW IV/ 150

Location of the physical object: 

**Digitalisation: Regional Digitalisation Lab, Małopolski Institute of Culture in Kraków, Poland**

Horn of Salt Diggers Brotherhood of Wieliczka

Herakles from Hadrians villa in Tivoli Skopas. Greek, mid 4th century BC, Rome copy, Malibu, J.p. Getty Museum. The Royal Cast Collection (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with Memento Beta (now ReMake) from AutoDesk.

Heracles , born Alcaeus or Alcides, was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson and half-brother (as they are both sired by the god Zeus) of Perseus. He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity, the ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be Heracleidae. In Rome and the modern West, he is known as Hercules. Many popular stories were told of his life, the most famous being The Twelve Labours of Heracles.

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Herakles

Hello Here's another  old model,   The Dallasaurus  is a ancestor of mosasaurs,  he was only  small  about 2 ft.

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/julian_johnson1234/

Dallasaurus

Photogrammetry 3D model of a Chinese Bronze "Ding"
It is a model of a small copy that I found on a tourist market in Bejing

Ding were prehistoric and ancient Chinese cauldrons, standing upon legs with a lid and two facing handles. They are one of the most important shapes used in Chinese ritual bronzes. They were made in two shapes: round vessels with three legs and rectangular ones with four, the latter often called fanding. They were used for cooking, storage, and ritual offerings to the gods or to ancestors.

Re-uploaded with 1M faces

Chinese Bronze Ding Vessel

The monastry Flor da Rosa is a fortified castle build in 1356 by the Prior of the knight order of hospitallers, Alvaro Goncalves Pereira. The site is the supposed birth place of Nuno Alvares Pereira, saint constable of Portugal, an important figure in portugese history and an ancestor of the House of Braganza. The building also houses the tomb of Alvaro Pereira. 

Since the 1940s the site has been converted to a Pousadas, as a chain of luxury hotels located in historical buildings.

Mosteiro de Flor da Rosa

# **Her Ancestor**

### *A take on [Blender 2.81's splash](https://bit.ly/3RWtH3l), created by [Alex Treviño](http://www.aendom.com) using a concept by [Anaïs Maamar](https://www.artstation.com/chatonlaser)*

What happens if you take a scifi scene and set it in another time? Does its essence change? I believe it doesn’t. Whenever or wherever humans exist, their joy and their struggle is the same. Their actions are universal, their words speak to all ages and times. And so I’ve worked to bring this belief to life, creating what I imagined to be the shop of the ancestor of the original splash’ main character. I have set the scene in an era roughly based on Greco-Roman culture.

I have used the following assets from Alex Treviño's splash, licensed under CC-BY: the girl's body mesh; her iris texture; the closet mesh. Every other asset has been created by me.

During my creative process, [I've kept an updated WIP post](https://bit.ly/3DfR1Fe), documenting my progress. In it I've also shared my .blend file.

Her Ancestor - Make a Splash in Amsterdam

Scanned at the British Museum

Plaque Reads:

"On the second lintel from Structure 23 at Yaxchilan, the sacrificial offering of blood conjures up a visionary manifestation of Yat-Balam, founding ancestor of the dynasty of Yaxchilan. In the guise of a warrior grasping a spear and shield, this ancestral spirit emerges from the gaping front jaws of a huge double-headed serpent rearing above Lady Xoc. She gazes upward at the apparition she has brought forth. In her left hand she bears a blood-letting bowl containing instruments of sacrifice, a sting-ray spine and an obsidian lancet."

Mayan Lintal (~ AD 725)

Wild boars (Sus scrofa) are large, bristly-haired, omnivorous mammals native to Eurasia and North Africa, known as the ancestors of domestic pigs. These highly adaptable animals, weighing 66–272 kg, are characterized by their powerful, muscular necks, sharp tusks, and destructive digging behavior. Often nocturnal and fast, they can be dangerous.

Rusty Boar

Introscope

Sculpture “Introscope” is a temporary, freestanding mixed-media installation sculpture that engages Civic Center Plaza as a site of civic memory, visibility, and shared presence and essence. The work centers on an original hand-built clay sculptural face, sanke neck, heart and humming bird pieces referencing Xochipilli’s myth, his relationship with the feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl, and ancestors knowledge cult, Gamigin, on the back side, in its horse form, on display in the back, signaling the importance of finding equilibrium by being aware of all aspects of our psyche and collectives.

Together, these views invite reflection on how public identity and internal experience coexist within civic life. Reflecting on the relevance of a healthy ego, and as an introduction to the individual, local or stranger, to our plural society, in which we welcome, respect and praise, moreover, actively practice, and venerate originality, peculiarity, presence, and purpose. 
“We are all just visitors here”.

Introscope

this fish evolved from the razorback and de-evolved its spinal fin for better mobility, it is slightly bigger than its ancestors (gnathopleura elongata)

Longjaw fish

Día de los Muertos is a celebration where memory becomes art. Families gather to honor ancestors with altars glowing in candlelight, marigold paths, and the sweet crunch of sugar skulls. Amid the festival’s color strides El Catrín, the dapper skeleton in a tailored suit and polished shoes. He’s the embodiment of elegance in the face of mortality, a reminder that death doesn’t erase dignity—it reveals it. His presence adds a playful sophistication to the holiday, showing that even the afterlife can have style. In the swirl of music, food, and remembrance, El Catrín stands as a symbol of grace, humor, and the shared humanity that binds the living to the dead.

El Catrin 2 - Day of the Dead

Día de los Muertos is a celebration shaped by centuries of cultural blending. Its roots lie in Indigenous rituals that honored ancestors with offerings, flowers, and food, later merging with Catholic traditions brought during colonization. Today, families build ofrendas, light candles, and decorate graves with marigolds to welcome the spirits home. At the center of its modern imagery stands La Catrina, inspired by José Guadalupe Posada’s early 20th‑century engraving of an elegant female skeleton. Originally a satire of upper‑class Mexicans who imitated European fashion, she evolved into a national symbol of identity and mortality. La Catrina reminds celebrants that death is universal, and that it can be faced with dignity, humor, and unmistakable style.

La Catrina - Day of the Dead

Día de los Muertos transforms remembrance into celebration, filling streets with marigold paths, candles, and the scent of pan de muerto. Families honor ancestors with ofrendas that glow through the night, inviting spirits home with warmth rather than fear. Moving through this vibrant world is El Catrín, the suave skeleton in a crisp suit and polished shoes. He embodies charm in the face of mortality, a reminder that death is not a shadow but a companion we can meet with confidence and style. His refined presence adds a touch of elegance to the festival, showing that honoring the dead can be both heartfelt and beautifully composed.

El Catrin 3 - Day of the Dead

this is the ancestor of the cuadal floatfish and is very small (protopecta brevis)

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