Messing around with refractive materials!

![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/IGupCf4.jpg)

The [Mosquito scan](https://skfb.ly/6tFKT) (415k tris) is from [Geoffrey Marchal](https://sketchfab.com/geoffreymarchal).

**Modeling**:

* The scan was first remeshed with [mmgs](mmgtools.org) and baked to a lighter version (11k tris). 
* The amber fragment was roughly sculpted in blender ("I have no clue what I'm doing" style), keeping the main face flat (clay strips + flatten brushes).
* The small fragments inside the amber were done by splitting all the main fragment edges and applying the "shrink/fatten" tool, followed by a random Displace modifier. Exterior fragments were then removed with a boolean modifier.

**Material**:

The important parts are the roughness and normal maps, which are a mix of PBR textures (rougher edges, smoother main face), while the refractivity is just a product of tweaking Sketchfab settings: opacity set to refractive and using the object's roughness.

![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/T67c2w1.jpg)

Mosquito in amber

Ukraine.
Irpin.
Destroyed civilian cars - russian invasion to Ukraine.

People were running from war.

This wreckyard is gathered from cars found in Bucha, Irpen city near the Kiyv.
Cars were shot and burned. You can inspect bullet and fragments holes on car bodies.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nEOwKX

This scan was made by :
Mykola Kondrashev - drone operator
http://Kondrashev.com.ua

Aleksey Chekalenko - photogrammetry process
http://tongar.artstation.com

Destroyed cars

300,000 to 600,000 YA. The Homo erectus skull Peking Man is also known as Pithecanthropus pekinensis (Sinanthropus). The gray coloration indicates areas that were sculpted based on the original fragments. This scan was made as a collaborative effort between The Ohio State University [Department of Anthropology](https://anthropology.osu.edu/), the [Office of Distance Education and eLearning](https://odee.osu.edu/), and the [Department of Art](https://art.osu.edu/).

Captured with a Canon EOS camera array and processed/edited in Agisoft Photoscan.

This scan was produced in 2017 the 3D scanning lab, created and run by Andrew Frueh, in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University.

Homo erectus Skull

The stairs located at the south west corner of London Bridge on Montague Close.

https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/nancy-s-steps-plaque-2
https://londonist.com/london/history/where-are-nancy-s-steps-and-why-do-they-lie-to-us

From the blue plaque: "These steps and arch are surviving fragments of the 1831 London Bridge designed by John Rennie and built by his son Sir John Rennie. These steps were the scene of the murder of Nancy in Charles Dicken's novel Oliver Twist."
It is not clear who placed this plaque and the part about Oliver Twist is not accurate. See links above.

867 photos taken in February 2022 with a Sony a7R III and processed in Reality Capture.

London Bridge Nancy Steps

"Turquoise, brown and dark manganese faience mosaic was common in monumental Seljuq prayer niches. This impressive niche with Qur’anic inscriptions and arabesque and geometric patterns, once belonged to the Bey Hakim Mosque in Konya, Turkey. It was assembled from fragments and restored parts." ~ http://www.discoverislamicart.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;de;Mus01;19;en&cp

Name of Object:
Prayer niche (mihrab)

Location:
Berlin, Germany

Holding Museum:
Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum

Date of Object:
About Hegira 669 / AD 1270

Museum Inventory Number:
I. 7193

Material(s) / Technique(s):
Glazed ceramic, faience mosaic.

Dimensions:
Height 395 cm, width 280 cm

Period / Dynasty
Seljuqs of Rum (Anatolian Seljuq)

Provenance:
Bey Hakim Mosque, Konya, Turkey.

![](https://i.imgur.com/Uq7BfcQ.jpg)

Prayer niche (mihrab)

Ce masque *Ejumba* a été exécuté entre la fin du 19e et début du 20e siècle chez les Diola au Sénégal. Il a été réalisé en vannerie recouverte d'un enduit noir et ornée d'un réseau de graines rouges et de cauris, de vraies cornes de bovidé, de boutons de porcelaine et de fragments d'écorce battue et peinte.

Connue depuis le 12e siècle chez les Diola au Sénégal et chez les peuples voisins, la cérémonie *bukut* est un rite initiatique marquant le passage de l’adolescence à l’âge adulte. Menée par les anciens, cette cérémonie correspond à une période de réclusion qui se déroule dans le bois sacré à l’écart du village au cours de laquelle les participants subissent plusieurs épreuves. Ils sont désormais des hommes et peuvent donc se marier, avoir des terres et participer à la vie politique.

N° d'inv. : 934.529 issu du musée d'Angoulême (16 - France). [Voir la fiche dans notre base de données en ligne](http://www.alienor.org/collections-des-musees/fiche-objet-7557).

Numérisation 3D : scanner Eva - Artec3D

Masque d’initiation des jeunes Diola au Sénégal

Basic 3D reconstruction of a dish based on images from the British Museum:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1878-1230-497

Mesh based on this previous reconstruction of a similar dish from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection: https://skfb.ly/6QSq6

**Object Type**
dish

**Museum number**
1878,1230.497

**Description**
Dish, made of polychrome underglaze pottery. The dish has a straight sloping rim and rests on a tapering ground-down foot-ring. It is painted in cobalt blue, apple green and thick pinkish bole-red outlined in greyish black with spotted tulips and curved carnation sprays with snapped stems between prunus blossom and small cloud fragments.

Polychrome Dish

Fragments of a sarcophagus, 150-175 CE, Asia Minor, marble. Musée du Cinquantenaire (Brussels, Belgium). Made with ReMake and ReCap from Autodesk.

A robust wild boar rushes to Anchee, while Meleager is brandishing a lance with his arm. Behind the boar of Calydon, Theseus is about to strike him with a stick. On the upper edge and in the field, a later epitaph is engraved in bad characters of the third century: "I have received the tomb ... and the columns" and "¨ [This tomb belongs to] Markos Aurélios Anikétos. 'One, by violence, comes to place some other [body, he will suffer a punishment].'

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Fragments of a sarcophagus

3D model of the Marc Anton monument next to the Secession building in Vienna's 1st district. The large bronze sculpture from 1899/1900 is by Arthur Strasser, who created his work for the Paris World's Fair in 1900. It shows the Roman general and politician Marcus Antonius, comfortably reclined in a triumphal chariot. Antonius is dressed in a tunic and has a toga lying across his body. The chariot is pulled by a team of lions consisting of a male lion in the center and two lionesses. Next to the chariot is a led lioness, who nestles against the chariot with her eyes closed. During a bombing of Vienna on February 7, 1945, it was pierced by bomb fragments and restored in 1956.

![](http://wien.denkmal-3d.at/SF/marcanton01.jpg)

Marc-Anton-Monument

In the oral traditions of Chile’s coastal regions, particularly among Mapuche communities, there exists a long-whispered legend of ghostly beings that walk the shores before and during catastrophes. These entities had no formal name for centuries - only described in fragments and murmurs passed from survivor to survivor.

It wasn’t until the 27F Earthquake in 2010 that a term gained traction: “Muru”, a word meaning complaint or warning in Mapudungun. Survivors, particularly in Talcahuano, Dichato, and Curanilahue, began using this term to refer to the strange, faceless entities seen walking in the waves before the tsunami struck.

the muru ( T Pose + made in paints 3d )

This is one of three fragments of a lower right molar from the Yorktown Mastodon. It was 3-D scanned with a NextEngine Desktop 3-D scanner on 7 January 2019. Courtesy of the Virginia Living Museum.

Mastodon molar fragment (VCU_3D_4196)

Clomantagh Church ruin was recently tidied up and the walls repointed thanks to a grant from the Heritage Council, and the difference really shows. The church has a double bellcote at the west gable, a now partly blocked-up doorway in the south wall and a better preserved doorway in the north wall. The east gable features two lancet windows of which most carved stones no longer survive in situ. The south and north walls have two smaller windows each towards the east end of the church. The walls have an unusual amount of quite large putlog holes, some of which are now used by birds as nesting boxes. A few architectural fragments from the church can still be found in the graveyard and adjoining field.

It was quite a windy day, and I wasn't too comfortable with having the drone up too high, so the tops of the gable walls aren't great, but it still gives a general idea of the architecture and state of the building. 

SMR no.: KK013-003001-

217 Shots taken with DJI Mini 4K and processed in KiriEngine.

Clomantagh Church

The doorway in the south wall of Stonecarthy Church. Carrigan (1905) dates the south wall to centuries before the Norman invasion.
The church must have had a more impressive western doorway, judging from the beautifully carved sandstone door jamb fragments re-built into the walls (mostly west wall) and scattered around the church. Carrigan counted 12 of them, I didn't count them at all.

SMR no. (of church): KK027-046001-
NIAH no. (of church): 12402719

Made in KiriEngine from 147 images.

Stoneycarthy Church: Doorway

Megatherium Americanum (giant sloth) skull sculpt based off scans, 3D imaging, images and fragments.

Original Model: 8,019,167 tris

FISHER ARTWORK

Megatherium Americanum Skull

A powerful fallen angel warrior clad in dark celestial armor with glowing golden cracks. Enormous damaged wings combine black feathers with radiant light fragments. The faceless helmet reveals only glowing eyes, while armor details show broken, corrupted holy symbols. Wielding a massive divine sword, half holy and half corrupted, the angel exudes both majesty and menace. Perfect for fantasy RPGs, cinematic bosses, or dark epic game environments.

Celestial Fallen Angel Warrior

Mastodon molar fragment (VCU_3D_4187)

Mastodon molar fragment (VCU_3D_4193)

Mask composed of jade fragments assembled using mosaic technique, forming the face of a supernatural being. It features square eyes, a prominent nose, and a semi-open mouth revealing three conical teeth—an unusual detail that may result from an incorrect restoration. The ears are decorated with shell inlays and square earspools with central perforations. Atop the head rises a trilobed element resembling a diadem, possibly associated with symbols of power or divinity. Traces of hematite are preserved at the joints of the mosaic.
 IDAEH Cultural Property No. 1.2.144.0605
www.fundacionrutamaya.org

Special thanks to the staff of La Ruta Maya Foundation for their hard work on this project.

3D model made in RealityScan; Total # of images: 332

Mosaic Jade Mask

Boot in fantasy/renfair style for female, used in my fragments projects and now available for download for everybody. These are based on some (RealityCapture) scans. retopo done in blender.

Boot

Small, charming elephant made entirely from layered paper pieces. Its body is covered in overlapping, leaf-shaped paper fragments in warm shades of orange, yellow, and hints of blue, giving it a textured, handmade look. The elephant has large round eyes, short legs, and curved white tusks, which add to its cute and friendly appearance. The folded paper layers create a playful, almost feathery surface, making the little elephant look like a whimsical craft sculpture or origami-inspired character.

This model was generated using Meshy, an AI-powered 3D creation toolkit. Meshy helps creators turn ideas into high-quality 3D models with ease. View the original model and claim a free month of Pro on Meshy: [https://www.meshy.ai/s/GSG6SQ](https://www.meshy.ai/s/GSG6SQ)

Leafy Mammoth

**Collection:** Roman Archeology Dept.
 
**Inv.-No.:** [CAR-M-9072](https://www.online.landessammlungen-noe.at/objects/1520928)

**Material:** Bronze, enamel

**Dimensions:** 4,1 x 0,9 cm

**Dating:** 2nd - early 3rd century AD

Brooch in the shape of a shoe-sole with a hinge construction and a non-pierced edge loop. The central area is filled with dark blue enamel. The edge of the sole is decorated with a continuous row of fine, successive dots. The pin holder survives only in fragments, and the pin is missing.

This object was digitized through the 'Kulturerbe digital' program of the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Public Service and Sport.

Shoe-sole brooch

**Collection:** Roman Archeology Dept.
 
**Inv.-No.:** [CAR-M-2800](https://www.online.landessammlungen-noe.at/objects/1306553)

**Material:** Bronze, enamel

**Dimensions:** 3,8 x 1 cm

**Dating:** 2nd - early 3rd century AD

A brooch in the shape of a shoe-sole with a hinge construction and a small loop at the heel. The base plate with a narrow frame is entirely enameled in orange-red, and the nail decoration is indicated by about 14 points without enamel inlays. The narrow edge of the sole is adorned with a continuous row of fine, successive dots. The pin and pin holder survive only in fragments.

This object was digitized through the 'Kulturerbe digital' program of the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Public Service and Sport.

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Concrete Fragments

This base, together with a small piece of the body (held in what was considered to be a suitable location), in the archive of Moorlands District Council, who allowed me access for photography, is just part of a collection of fragments of a probable urn. Actual data on its provenance is sketchy and it is not certain whether this is separate from, or part of, the urn held at the Potteries Museum. Comparison of the reconstructed urn with the fragments may help with the ongoing research project.

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