Here's a visualization of global winds and precipitations on September 1st, 2019 (when [Hurricane Dorian](https://tinyurl.com/y3jewqqt) was hovering over the Bahamas, off the coast of Florida).

* Created in Python (using Matplotlib, NetCDF4, Scipy and Numpy modules)
* Public wind and precipitation data from the [NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis](https://tinyurl.com/y6mfqr6f)
* Wind particles colored according to speed (using Matplotlib "inferno" colormap)
* Rain particles scattered according to the precipitation rate

The seamless-loop effect was achieved by periodically spawning the particles at their initial location on a time range greater than the animation, and subsampling this time range before export. This effect was further enhanced by fading each particle's color to black at their birth and death, and using the "Additive" opacity in Sketchfab material settings to hide black points.

*PS: for Python enthusiasts, I've uploaded a [script to preview point cloud animations locally](https://tinyurl.com/yhyuuqev) !*

A Windy Day

Global map of seismic events for the years 2010 and 2011 ([animation here](https://skfb.ly/6Mn8Y)). 

Here are some interesting events/features, clearly visible on this visualization:

* March 2011 earthquake in Tohoku, Japan (see this [3D model](https://skfb.ly/6GULX))
* [February 2010 earthquake in Chile](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Chile_earthquake)
* Seismic activity in the [Tonga-Kermadec](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonga-Kermadec_Ridge) subduction system, the most "active" on earth (East of Australia)
* [Seismic activity in the Scotia Arc](http://earthjay.com/earthquakes/20160819_sandwich/civile_etal_2012_tectonics_scotia.pdf), where continents want to emerge (East of southern Chile)
* The fine [USGS](https://www.usgs.gov/) monitoring on the US west-coast, in Hawaii and in the Aleutian Trench (North Pacific), where even the smallest events (purple) are recorded.

Seismic data comes from the [Earthquake Catalog](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/), and was processed in Python.

Earthquakes - 2010 & 2011

La Motilla del Azuer (Daimiel, Spain) is a Bronze Age fortified enclosure built of stone and defended by an outer wall and several intermediate walls. Dating between 2200 and 1500 BC, these walls protect the oldest and most well documented motilla in the Iberian Peninsula. Additionally this site exhibits an impressive funnel-shaped well that is more than 20 meters deep allowing it to reach the aquifer.

Some of the data for this project were originally collected as a joint effort between researchers at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) and CVAST at the University of South Florida (USF) under the legal permission of Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha (Expte. 16.0834-P1. Sistema de documentación 3D del Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha). Data were provided by UCLM and FBK and are now being re-analyzed and re-processed by Global Digital Heritage (GDH).

La Motilla del Azuer - Daimiel, Spain

The giant oceanic manta ray is a species of ray in the family Mobulidae, and the largest type of ray in the world. They are circumglobal and are typically found in tropical and subtropical waters, but can also be found in temperate waters.

MANTA

Now, that in a matter of days, the Sketchfab store will go offline and in a matter of months we may likely lose the ability to share the 3D models for free, where do we go?

This place is near and dear to me and I will likely continue posting models here as long as it's alive.

For those willing to advoclace for keeping the Sketchfabs downlaodable content available, this petition might be a good point to start in: https://www.change.org/p/keep-sketchfab-alive-preserve-open-access-to-3d-museum-collections 

Attributions:
[Statue of Virgin Mary](https://skfb.ly/pq8Dz) by Global Digital Heritage and GDH-Afrika [CC-BY](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
[Rosary](https://skfb.ly/otUUn) by Carlos.Maciel [CC-BY](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
[Remains](https://skfb.ly/6yoGs) by seenoise [CC-BY](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Santa Muerte & Requiem for the Sketchfab

The Suzuki Swift is a supermini car (B-segment) produced by Suzuki. The vehicle is classified as a B-segment marque in the European single market, a segment referred to as a supermini in the British Isles. Prior to this, the "Swift" nameplate had been applied and purchased from Swift Engineering (previously known as Swift Cars) to the rebadged Suzuki Cultus in numerous export markets since 1983 and became its own model since 2004. Currently, the Swift is positioned between Ignis and Baleno in Suzuki hatchback global lineup.

Suzuki Swift

**NoAI: This model may not be used in datasets for, in the development of, or as inputs to generative AI programs.**


2022 Mahindra Scorpio-N exported from a GTA SA mod.
Credits: Modding Beast: model, textures etc and BHP3D (Me): exporting, edits etc.

About car: The Mahindra Scorpio is a mid-size SUV (in the Indian market) and Compact SUV (in the Global market) manufactured by the Indian automaker Mahindra & Mahindra since 2002. It was Mahindra's first model to be built for the global market.

The Scorpio was conceptualized and designed by the in-house integrated design and manufacturing team of Mahindra & Mahindra. The car has been the recipient of three Indian awards, including the "Car of the Year" award from Business Standard Motoring as well as the "Best SUV of the Year" and the "Best Car of the Year" awards, both from BBC World's Wheels.

2022 Mahindra Scorpio-N

The archaeological ensemble of Melque is one of the most important historical sites of the High Middle Ages in Spain. It is located in the municipality of San Martín de Montalbán, just 30 kilometers from the city of Toledo. It consists of a very well preserved church, a monastery, several dams and a fence or wall. However, there is no consensus among experts about the date of its foundation. Some authors date it in the seventh century, in Visigothic times, while others consider that it was founded in the eighth century by Mozarabs, that is to say by Christians but under Muslim domination. The place was inhabited for centuries which has allowed the preservation of the church in an excellent state to this day.

Documented by Global Digital Heritage in September of 2018 using 1110 drone images, 112 terrestrial laser scans, and 1702 terrestrial photogrammetry images. These data were processed in Reality Capture.

Santa María de Melque (Toledo, Spain)

The Tōhoku earthquake (9.1 magnitude) hit Japan on March 11, 2011 for a duration of 5 minutes, and was followed by a tsunami which claimed the life of close to 16.000 people.  

The seismic events shown took place on that same day, between 01h41 and 23h59 (GMT). At 0.5X animation speed, 1 second of animation = 1 hour in real time.

The main earthquake happened at 05h46 (1:80 mark in the animation), and slowing down the animation speed to 0.1X or keeping manual control around this event should allow you to better understand the aftershocks propagation.

Data:

* Topography and bathymetry: [Etopo1 Global Relief Model](https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/global.html)
* Earthquakes: [ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/comcat/)
* Fault plane: [Slab2:  A Comprehensive Subduction Zone Geometry Model](https://doi.org/10.5066/F7PV6JNV)

Created with python and blender ( and love :) )

*NEXT: add focal mechanisms, better metadata, funkier colormaps and superimpose historical maps?*

Tōhoku earthquake - 2011

Dora from Dora the Explorer

All Rights to the Character belongs to Paramount Global (Formally known as ViacomCBS)

Dora

London is one of the world's most important global cities. It exerts considerable influence upon the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transportation. It is one of the largest financial centres in the world and in 2019, London had the second highest number of ultra high-net-worth individuals in Europe, after Paris. And in 2020, London had the second-highest number of billionaires of any city in Europe, after Moscow.

source:wikipedia.

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– Accurate 3D city model and its surrounding area based on GIS data Year 2021
– Size: 60km
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1. Suitable for Games, Games, Education, Architecture etc.
2. Mainly used for town and urban planning, real estate etc

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London city

In one of those “out there” news items, Call of Duty: Warzone may soon be getting a visit from the likes of Godzilla and King Kong. According to Xfire, Activision is potentially planning on having the King Kong and Godzilla arrive for events in Warzone later this year, in addition to “more spectacular global in-game events” planned.

Xfire states that they were provided with images from a now-deleted Twitter account. Among the images were “King Kong swatting a WW2 plane out of the sky whilst soldiers aimed rifles at him in the distance” and “Godzilla destroying troops below with a bright blue beam”.

Granted, these images were concept art, but the noteworthy aspect of these images was that they were alongside Warzone Season 2 images. Season 2 of Warzone kicked off on February 14th, if you’re wondering

model by MMDCharizard

Call Of Duty Warzone Godzilla

Model based on the great modelling done by Alvaro Luna Bautista (@AlvaroL). License: [CC Attribution ](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

It is an incredible experience to walk inside this architecture in VR!

Be sure to activate HD textures for best experience.

All elements have been UV unwraped to allow texture and lighting baking.
It is far from perfect. The small gap between uv islands is sometimes too small but I realise it too late after several full baking calculations that takes days !

Here is a test render with only the sun and clear sky.

I have used only basic material without glossiness nor bump maps to limit memory usage.
If someone want to go ahead in texturing work please share it !

I have split the models to seven 8k textures to allow constant pixel density with such large global surfaces.
I suspect that texture sizes are limited to 4K in VR, hence reduced images may only be available. So it might be necessary to repack to 4k but I am not sure that VR will handle 28 x 4k maps.

Hintze-Hall - VR Tour

Visualization of global oceanic currents, averaged on the month of September 2019.

* Created in Python (using Matplotlib, NetCDF4, Scipy and Numpy modules)
* Public ocean data from the [NCEP Global Ocean Data Assimilation System (GODAS)](https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.godas.html)
* Particles colored according to speed (using the “bone” colormap in Matplotlib)

If you are curious, [here](https://skfb.ly/6OGwB) is a similar model made by using similar tools and data, showing an animation of the winds and precipitation on September 1st, 2019.

Oceanic Currents

**Royal Enfield** is an Indian motorcycle manufacturing brand with the tag of "the oldest global motorcycle brand in continuous production" manufactured in factories in Chennai in **India**. Licensed from Royal Enfield by the indigenous Indian Madras Motors, it is now a subsidiary of Eicher Motors Limited, an Indian **automaker**. The company makes the Royal Enfield Bullet, and other single-cylinder and twin-cylinder **motorcycles**.

The Royal Enfiled Bike was 3D Scanned at **Addere Creations**.

Details: Stromrider Sand Royal Enfield Classic model.

3D Scan Process: **Outdoor Photogrammetry**

Number of Photos: 95

Software: Autodesk Recap Photo

Camera used: Mobile Phone

Bike - Royal Enfield

This is my version of the AWP from the game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. I modeled and textured it myself.

2022 Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza exported from a GTA SA mod.

Credits- REVOLZ MODDING AND TEAM-for model, textures etc.
Me-exporting, edits etc.

About car: The Suzuki Brezza (known as Vitara Brezza for the first generation) is a subcompact crossover SUV from Suzuki and manufactured by Maruti Suzuki in India. The Brezza is the first Suzuki-branded car which was fully developed in India.[2][3] The model was designed as a smaller alternative to the global market Vitara and targeted to young audiences. It is only available for right-hand drive emerging markets in Asia and Africa.[4] The first-generation model was also marketed by Toyota as the Toyota Urban Cruiser between 2020 and 2022.

As in the original Vitara model, the name "Vitara" is derived from English word "vital," as in "vitality,"[5] while the name "Brezza" means "breeze" in Italian.

Taken from Wikipedia.

Model exported on request

2022 Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza

A little map initially created for work with ambient and natural lighting on Unity 3D, wich I decided to upload on Sketchfab, especially for see how I could treat natural lighting without baking and global illumination options.

Abandoned Castle Interior

The Kia K5 (formerly known as the Kia Optima), is a midsize sedan produced by Kia since 2000. The first generation was primarily marketed as the Optima, despite the Kia name Magentis has been used in the European and Canadian markets since 2002. For the second generation models, Kia used the names Kia Lotze and Kia K5 for the Korean market, using the name Magentis for the global market. demand, except in the United States, Canada and Malaysia, where the Optima name was retained until the 2021 model year. The K5 name is used for all markets since the fifth generation version was introduced in year 2019.

Kia optima k5

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is an American mixed martial arts promotion company based in Las Vegas, Nevada, that is owned and operated by parent company William Morris Endeavor. It is the largest MMA promotion company in the world and features the highest-level fighters on the roster. The UFC produces events worldwide that showcase twelve weight divisions and abide by the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts. As of 2018, the UFC has held over 400 events. Dana White serves as the president of the UFC. White has held that position since 2001; while under his stewardship, the UFC has grown into a globally popular multi-billion-dollar enterprise.

Info Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Fighting_Championship

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UFC Octagon

**Praise the sun** ☀️

Dark souls scene with Solaire of Astora

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*Remaster update*

At some point I decided that I could make the scene better
I worked on the glass materials, changed the character's pose, and also lit the fire and changed the global illumination

![](https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/067/818/633/large/igor-oskolskiy-dark-souls-remaster.jpg?1696318818)

Dark Souls

Japanese armor type "Tosei dö gusoku" with helmet or "kabuto". It was part of the Romero Ortiz Collection, related in its 1888 Catalog to Daniel Datto and the context of the Philippine War. The warriors of ancient Japan or Samurai, belonged to a military elite at the service of a Daimyo or feudal lord. Their armor, the basis of their defensive clothing, consisted of different components that covered the entire body, pieces that evolved into forms of great showiness and a precious finish, especially in the Edo period. Edo period (1603-1868). In the collection of the Spanish National Army Museum (Toledo, Spain). Catalog number MUE-43243. 3D model made using the Artec Leo scanner. Processing completed in Artec Studio Professional with additional processing completed in Geomagic Wrap.

This work is part of the collaboration agreement signed in 2021 between the Ministry of Defence (Spain) and Global Digital Heritage for the digitization of the collections preserved by the Spanish National Army Museum.

Japanese armor, Edo period (1603-1868)

This mounted parrot skeleton was scanned with a Faro Arm and processed in Geomagic Studio. 
 Documentation was done as part of a collaborative project between the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris, France and Global Digital Heritage

Parrot mounted skeleton

sun shining afternoon volumetric lights brutalist scene 
3DScene
ArchitecturalVisualization
InteriorDesign
3DModeling
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RealtimeRendering
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Real time ray tracing model
Ray traced baked
path tracing

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