Stairs and eroded slipway/jetty at the east end of Custom House, London.

"An earlier phase of the causeway is visible half way down the foreshore - previously partly hidden under the cambered concrete causeway until it broke up. The earlier phase aligns to the true end of the stair. The current granite setts were added to raise the level on the foreshore and the stair passes underneath the setts." - The City of London Archaeological Society (@COLAS_London).

On the river wall above the stairs is a parish boundary engraving for St Dunstan in the East and All Hallows by the Tower with the date: 1819.

1727 photos taken in January 2019 with a Sony a6000 and processed in Reality Capture.

Custom House Stairs

Earth – Real Satellite Texture Model

This model represents Earth using real satellite-based texture data, showing the planet’s continents, oceans, and large-scale surface patterns as viewed from space. The texture emphasizes natural color variation across land and sea, providing a recognizable and realistic global appearance.

A subtle normal map is used to suggest broad terrain features without exaggerating surface relief, keeping the planet’s silhouette smooth and accurate at orbital scale. Lighting is used to define the day–night boundary and highlight the spherical form rather than simulate atmospheric or artificial illumination effects.

The focus of this model is on clarity and realism through authentic texture mapping, making it suitable for educational visualization, space scenes, and real-time rendering.

Earth - Our Home Planet - Satellite Textures

Martello Tower (DU005-033) No. 10 on Shenick's Island, inside a promontory fort (DU005-116), 1km east of the north Dublin coastline protecting the strand at Skerries, Fingal.  Red Island Martello Tower No. 11 (DU005-018) visible 1.6km to the NW,  Drumanagh Martello Tower No. 9 (DU008-006003) stands 3.7km to the south. One of 12 ordnance towers constructed to the north of Dublin Bay in 1804 by Colonel Benjamin Fisher of the Royal Engineers in order to defend the Dublin coastline from a French Naval invasion during the Napoleonic Wars (1803-15). Two storey high circular shaped rubble built tower covered with a lime render. Tower was entered through a 1st floor doorway on the landward side accessed by an external ladder protected by a projecting machicolation.  The gun platform supported a 24-pounder cannon enclosed by a parapet wall carried on a cut stone string course. Privy stands to the SE.  8 boundary stones demarcating the military owned land are still visible. HEV entry at; https://tinyurl.com/4tfzu4kc

Shenick's Island Martello Tower No. 10

Garrol Hill Boundary Stone. It is depicted on the OS 1st and 2nd  edition maps at the junction of the boundaries between the three parishes of Banchory-Ternan and Durris . Now built into a wall, the exposed face is inscribed with the letters D and B.
NO79SW00093
NO7211 9013

Garrol Hill Boundary Stone, Banchory

Antique curiosity cabinet displaying a preserved skull inside a wooden and glass case.
Inspired by an image I randomly stumbled upon on Pinterest.
The Latin inscription suggests a philosophical reflection on the boundary between human reason and animal instinct.

The model was created as a game-ready asset with detailed wood, glass, and bone materials.

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Antique curiosity skull cabinet

A church in the small village of Michaelston-y-Fedw, near Marshfield, Newport.

DJI Mini 5 Pro

Weather: Sunshine

Flight plan:

* WaypointMap

* 5m polygon area -90° gimble 45m alt

* POI 35m radius -30° gimble 45m alt

* POI 15m radius -60° gimble 45m alt

* 2m/s speed


Images:

* Count: 451

* Interval: 2s

* Resolution: 12MP JPG

Processing

* Software: WebODM + Blender

* Options: auto-boundary:true, mesh-octree-depth:12, use-3dmesh:true, pc-quality:high, mesh-size:300000

* Average GSD: 1.73 cm

* Area: 25,198.93 m²

* Reconstructed Points: 198,425,226

* Spatial Reference: GPS

* Disk Usage: 8.15 Gb

St Michaels Church

Hanyangdoseong was built to safeguard Hanyang (present Seoul), the capital of the Joseon Dynasty, and the demark the city's boundary. It server as a city wall for 514 years (1396-1910), longer than any other city walls in the world.

Wall Hanyangdoseong | KOREA

The Lysaght Institute, Newport.

DJI Mini 5 Pro

Weather: Sunshine

Flight plan:

* Grid then tripple orbit flight

* Manual

* 10m polygon area -90° gimble 30m alt

* POI 20m radius -60° gimble 30m alt

* POI 15m radius -60° gimble 40m alt

* 2m/s speed


Images:

* Count: 522

* Interval: 2s

* Resolution: 12MP JPG

Processing

* Software: WebODM + Blender

* Options: auto-boundary:true, feature-quality:ultra, pc-quality:ultra, mesh-octree-depth:12, mesh-size:300000, dsm:true, dtm:true, orthophoto-resolution:1, use-3dmesh:true, no-gpu:true

* Average GSD: 1.18 cm

* Area: 15,675.71 m²

* Reconstructed Points: 269,201,094

* Spatial Reference: GPS

* Disk Usage: 9.88 Gb

Lysaght Institute

An Anglican church in Rogerstone, Newport.

DJI Mini 5 Pro

Weather: Sunshine

Flight plan:

* Grid then tripple orbit flight

* WaypointMap

* 5m polygon area -90° gimble 45m alt

* POI 15m radius -60° gimble 45m alt

* POI 50m radius -33° gimble 60m alt

* 2m/s speed


Images:

* Count: 867

* Interval: 2s

* Resolution: 12MP JPG

Processing

* Software: WebODM + Blender

* Options: auto-boundary:true, feature-quality:ultra, pc-quality:ultra, mesh-octree-depth:12, mesh-size:300000, dsm:true, dtm:true, orthophoto-resolution:1, use-3dmesh:true, no-gpu:true

* Average GSD: 1.77 cm

* Area: 37,137.29 m²

* Reconstructed Points: 450,692,145

* Spatial Reference: GPS

* Disk Usage:16.1 Gb

St John's Church Rogerstone

Several latrines grouped to mark a badger clan boundary.

Badger boundary latrine 1

Living Earth V3 is a full closed Earth mesh built from real external datasets, not just a textured globe. 

It combines WGS84 geodetic shape, ETOPO 2022 topography and bathymetry, Blue Marble surface color, the real EGM2008 geoid, and PB2002 tectonic boundary data in a single manifold object. 

The model also integrates gravity-aware logic through Somigliana normal gravity with free-air correction, plus a light PAPP informational encoding layered on top of the physical data. 

What makes it different from most computational Earth representations is that it does not isolate one layer only—texture, terrain, or tectonics—but preserves geometry, relief, geoid structure, and tectonic semantics together inside one exportable globe. 

It is not just a visual Earth model, but a topologically clean and semantically enriched planetary artifact.

Computationally built and generated in seconds as a unified manifold planetary mesh from real geophysical data by PAPP Framework.

Living Earth V3 | PAPP Framework

For proper use, we recommend downloading the original file.The converted file is intended only for use in the web viewer. In the Original format, the following are fully preserved:✔ original scene hierarchy✔ all materials without simplification✔ correct PBR texture maps✔ proper object namingIf you plan to use this model in production, download the original version.Boundary wall 4K scan Quad Mesh Topology

Boundary Wall

This object is a deterministic TPMS-derived microporous filter generated with the PAPP protocol. 
The internal architecture is based on a gyroid field and a balanced radial porosity profile, designed to combine high geometric complexity with continuous flow pathways.
The final validated mesh is watertight and manifold, with 0 boundary edges, 0 non-manifold edges, and 0 degenerate faces. 
Topology audit: genus 1571.
Balanced version metrics: body porosity 0.5999, porous-region porosity 0.6720, surface area 41.2607, 1,926,678 vertices, 3,859,636 faces.
This model sits between engineering filter design and computational geometry: a dense, highly interconnected porous solid suitable for visualization, topology study, and advanced fabrication-oriented workflows.

PAPP TPMS Filter — Gyroid

A tree enclosed church as is obvious by the texture clearly showing tree branches for walls. I have cout back a lot of them to enable visibility of the church but it does result in a few mesh holes

DJI Mini 5 Pro

Weather: Sunshine

Flight plan:

* Tight POI orbit, grid then wide POI orbit flight

* WaypointMap

* POI 30m radius -55° gimble 45m alt

* 5m lane polygon area -90° gimble 45m alt

* POI 75m radius -40° gimble 60m alt

* 2m/s speed

Images:

* Count: 473

* Interval: 2s

* Resolution: 12MP JPG

Processing

* Software: WebODM + Blender

* Options: auto-boundary:true, pc-quality:ultra, mesh-octree-depth:13, mesh-size:300000, dsm:true, dtm:true, dem-resolution:3, orthophoto-resolution:1, no-gpu:true

* Average GSD: 1.73 cm

* Area: 21,140.01 m²

* Reconstructed Points: 219,636,447

* Spatial Reference: GPS

* Disk Usage: 10.02 Gb

St Stephens Church

This "castle"/fort was built by a former army soldier following a tour of duty and helped him with mental health issues he underwent. Much of the fort has now been demolished now due to issues with planning permission.

DJI Mini 5 Pro

Weather: Sunshine

Flight plan:

* Grid then tripple orbit flight

* WaypointMap

* 2m lane polygon area -90° gimble 10m alt

* POI 15m radius -45° gimble 15m alt

* POI 50m radius -60° gimble 30m alt

* 1m/s speed

Images:

* Count: 588

* Interval: 2s

* Resolution: 12MP JPG

Processing

* Software: WebODM + Blender

* Options: auto-boundary:true, feature-quality:ultra, pc-quality:ultra, mesh-octree-depth:12, mesh-size:300000, dsm:true, dtm:true, orthophoto-resolution:1, use-3dmesh:true, no-gpu:true

* Average GSD: 0.64 cm

* Area: 3,891.59 m²

* Reconstructed Points: 340,103,316

* Spatial Reference: GPS

* Disk Usage: 11.44 Gb

Wattsville Castle

This object is a one-stroke dense knot domain extruded into a closed 3D tube mesh, using the PAPP-OSG route from constrained path to validated woven geometry.
Generated, not hand-modeled: the Dara Knot begins as a gate-constrained one-stroke path on a 32-grid dense circular domain, then is materialized as a Catmull–Rom ribbon and a 10-sided tube with parallel-transport framing and z-lift weaving. Its signature is maximum crossing density packed into a single closed oak-root knot field.
Dara Knot is the most compact and crossing-rich of the set: a filled circular Celtic field built to maximize interlace density, so the eye reads not a single emblem but a continuous root-like network. Inspired by the oak-root 
Dara tradition, it behaves like a woven infrastructure inside a disc boundary, with compressed over/under rhythm, layered continuity, and strong visual depth.

Generated by PAPP Framework

Dara Knot OSG | PAPP

The cherub heads on the balustrade of the Nepomuk Chapel in Mauerbach are sculpted decorative elements mounted on a spherical base, featuring several angel heads arranged in a circle, each with childlike facial features and stylized hair. This so-called putto or cherubim depiction is typical of the Baroque style and symbolizes the heavenly sphere as well as the depicted saint’s closeness to the divine. The spherical form on which the heads are arranged reinforces the impression of a cloud-like mass, a motif frequently used in Baroque art to represent the heavens. As part of the balustrade, these finials simultaneously mark the boundary between the secular exterior and the sacred interior of the chapel, thereby contributing both to the decorative design and to the symbolic significance of the structure.

Cherubköpfe

This is the main church in Marshfield, Newport, UK

DJI Mini 5 Pro

Images: 434

Weather: Cloudy with outbreaks of sunshine

Software: WebODM + Blender

Options: auto-boundary:true, dsm:true, feature-quality:ultra, mesh-octree-depth:12, mesh-size:300000, no-gpu:true, orthophoto-resolution:1, pc-quality:ultra, use-3dmesh:true

Average GSD: 1.24 cm

Area: 7,989.42 m²

Reconstructed Points: 210,054,986

Spatial Reference: GPS

CRS:	WGS 84 / UTM zone 30N

Disk Usage: 8.34 Gb

St Marys Church Marshfield

Board of Ordnance limestone boundary stone no. 3 as annotated on the 1859 War Office plan of the ordnance tower on Shenick's Island.  This boundary stone to the SW of the Martello Tower was one of 10 stones demarcating a circular area aound the base of the tower which belonged to the Board of Ordnance. This circular piece of land was accessed by a War Department Right of Way to the SW which was delimited by a series of unmarked granite stones.  The land amounting to half an acre was purchased in 1806 by the War Office from Hans Hamilton (c. 1758-1822) son of James Hamilton of Sheephill & Holmpatrick. According to Wikipedia: 'The Board of Ordnance was a British government body, its headquarters in the Tower of London. Its primary responsibilities were 'to act as custodian of the lands, depots and forts required for the defence of the realm and its overseas possessions, and as the supplier of munitions and equipment to both the Army and the Navy. In 1855 it was disbanded and replaced by the War Department'.

Shenick's Martello Tower Boundary Stone No. 3

interstellar boundary explorer ibex

Kenzie Lamar (Vicarious Visions) created this version from the default teapot model in 3D Max. Top is resized, model is manifold without boundary w/ a consistent-resolution texture parameterization. From: http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/data/meshes.xml

The Utah Teapot

Scientists have officially classified the structure known as the “Elf House” as *Amanita habitus domesticus*, a rare symbiotic organism blending fungal biology with architectural function. First documented in 2024 during a biodiversity survey in the Pacific Northwest, the organism appears to grow its own living quarters, complete with bioluminescent window‑like pores and a hardened lignin‑rich stem that forms a stable dwelling chamber.

Researchers believe the species evolved alongside small forest‑dwelling humanoids previously considered mythical. Soil analysis around the site revealed deliberate cultivation patterns, suggesting a co‑adaptive relationship between the elves and the organism itself.

The discovery challenges long‑held assumptions about intelligence in non‑animal life and hints at previously unknown ecological partnerships. If confirmed globally, *A. habitus domesticus* could redefine our understanding of habitat formation, symbiosis, and the boundary between biology and architecture.

Elf House - Mushroom

The MK 235 cassette recorder (sometimes referred to as “ZRK MK 235” or “MK 235 Automatic”) was manufactured in 1976-1978. The portable cassette recorder, positioned on the boundary of popular and standard product classes, was designed to record sound and play back recordings. Its design was based on the licensed C-235 model by Grundig. It incorporated transistors and an integrated circuit. The MK 235 is powered from an AC source or batteries (five R14 type batteries). Operation time using batteries is about 14 hours. The tape recorder is designed to play cassettes at a tape speed of 4.75 cm/s. The aesthetics of the device are minimalistic, dominated by the geometry of its overall shape. Its form is livened up by the rounding of its edges, using geometric shapes and grooves to divide the planes.

Manufacturer: Zakłady Radiowe im. Marcina Kasprzaka, 1978

Inv. No.: MIM 1317/V-295

Model prepared on the basis of photogrammetric measurements

Licence: CC BY-NC-SA

MK 235 cassette recorder

This model is a deterministic TPMS-based porous filter generated with the PAPP protocol from a Schwarz P field and a balanced radial grading strategy. Compared with denser TPMS families, Schwarz P produces fewer, larger, and more direct flow channels, giving the structure a clearer cellular logic while preserving full topological closure.
The final validated mesh is watertight and manifold, with 0 boundary edges, 0 non-manifold edges, and 0 degenerate faces. 
Topology audit: genus 268.
Balanced version metrics: body porosity 0.5984, porous-region porosity 0.6701, surface area 33.2451, 1,565,940 vertices, 3,132,948 faces.
This piece is both a mathematical surface realization and an engineering-ready porous architecture, intended for studies of flow, filtration, topology, and fabrication-aware design.

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