This 3D data of Kokura Castle was made using photogrammetry. This is Avatta's first attempt in using drones to make high quality 3D architectural scan. We have photographed over 1500 images from all directions and the data was processed using Agisoft Photoscan. 

Kokura Castle of Kitakyushu, Japan was built by Hosokawa Tadaoki in 1602. It was the property of the Ogasawara clan (from Harima) between 1632 and 1860. The castle was burnt down in 1866 in the war between the Kokura and Chōshū clans.

Mori Ogai was based at the castle at the turn of the 19th-20th century when it was a military base.
The keep was reconstructed in 1959, and the castle was fully restored in 1990. The Matsumoto Seicho museum and castle garden were opened in 1998. The old Japanese-style pre-Brunton lighthouse from Shirasu is in the castle grounds.

Kokura Castle

*The Castle of Loarre is a Romanesque Castle and Abbey located near the town of the same name, Huesca Province in the Aragon autonomous region of Spain. The castle was built largely during the 11th and 12th centuries, when its position on the frontier between Christian and Muslim lands gave it strategic importance. It is one of the oldest castles in Spain.* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_of_Loarre

Experimental, reconstructed from various 4K drone footage only

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Castle of Loarre

This is a photogrammetric reconstruction of an operating room of the Charité University Hospital in Berlin.

Please also check out this model on our [Digital Surgery Sketchfab Account](https://skfb.ly/oIyEP)

**If you use this model in your project, please cite our publication:** https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35137646/

Use this textblock for the citation:

*Queisner M, Pogorzhelskiy M, Remde C, Pratschke J, Sauer IM. VolumetricOR: A New Approach to Simulate Surgical Interventions in Virtual Reality for Training and Education. Surg Innov. 2022 Jun;29(3):406-415. doi: 10.1177/15533506211054240. Epub 2022 Feb 9. PMID: 35137646; PMCID: PMC9438748.*

More about our research: http://experimental-surgery.de/digitalsurgery/

The paper explores the concept of letting surgical stuff train in a virtual operating setting.
This is one of several general ORs in the Charité Campus Mitte (CCM), scanned in 2018. Shot with Nikon D3400 (500 images), reconstructed in Metashape, refined in Blender.

Charité University Hospital - Operating Room

In Virgil, Laocoön was a priest of Poseidon who was killed with both his sons after attempting to expose the ruse of the Trojan Horse by striking it with a spear. In Sophocles, on the other hand, he was a priest of Apollo, who should have been celibate but had married.

This particular sculpture was made by the unknown artist and is a copy of the original work. 

3D scanned using photogrammetry in Hans Tausens Park in Copenhagen. Capturing of the scupture was done by 4 people/4 cameras by jointly dancing around the sculpture.

 Reconstructed in Reality Capture from about 1000 images. 

![](http://rigsters.com/sketchfab_img/laocoon_3dscan-rigsters.jpg)

Laocoon and His Sons

NYC New York city boulevard avenue street downtown skyscrapers skyline at night


Experimental vr, reconstructed from 8K drone footage only, looks best when moving straight in one direction (as with annotations).

2x16K textures

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New York blvd.

Saw this on a highway driving through Nevada, so I HAD to capture it.

**Plane**
In what must have seemed like a good idea at the time, the owners of the brothel promoted an interesting challenge with a very naughty prize. A mattress would be placed in the center of a large star painted on the desert floor—if one were to parachute out of an airplane (airplane provided) and land on the mattress, they would be the lucky winner of a night with the lady of his choice, on the house!

Unsurprisingly, things went horribly wrong. Long story short, scantily-clad women plus distracted, inexperienced pilot plus heavy cross winds equal the plane plummeting straight into the ground. Luckily no one was hurt in the accident, and the clever owners decided that the wreck was enough of a spectacle to attract people from the road, so there it stayed - https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/angel-s-ladies-brothel

**Method**
322 images shot with a Mavic Pro 2. Reconstructed with Reality Capture

Plane Crash by a Brothel in Nevada

This is an animation of an adult female **Great Hammerhead Shark** (Sphyrna mokarran) that was reconstructed from multiple cameras arranged around a dive in South Bimini, Bahamas in February 2020.  Casey Sapp coordinated all videography.  Kevin Davidson kindly contributed useful reference photos.

CG artist **Jer Bot** used the software Blender to align these camera views to reconstruct the accurate shape and color of **Nemesis** (PIT tag 900236000107365), which had an estimated length of 329 cm based on laser photogrammetry.  Nemesis commonly frequents dive spots near Bimini and is well-known to divers and scientists from the Bimini shark lab (www.biminisharklab.com).

The **ANGARI Foundation** (www.angari.org) coordinated and supported this research, along with Sean Williams, Ken Morton, Jonathan and Jameson Bayuk, Annabelle Brooks, and Vital Heim.

Downloads are freely available for creative and non-profit use. To inquire about licensing, please visit **www.digitallife3d.org**.

Model 73A - Great Hammerhead Shark

Sparse reconstruction result after the Structure-from-Motion step in Meshroom default photogrammetry pipeline. The green points represent the reconstructed cameras.

**Details**

 - Meshroom 2019.1.0
 - Input: 220 images
 - Camera: Sony A7S II

Buddha - Structure-from-Motion

This is a 3D animation of a Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis, Panel C, Fig. 1) which was reconstructed using the open source software Blender 3D (blender.org). Measurements taken from drone videos of right whales (see Christensen et al. 2019) were used to create an ellipsoid that served as a basis for the model. The measurements for height and width of the whale were taken at increments of 5% of the total body length. Reference photos were also used as a guide to create taxonomic features onto the ellipsoid using Blender 3D sculpting tools (primarily the dynamic topology function). These features included the fluke, pectoral fins, eye, and mouth arrangements.

Downloads are freely available for creative and non-profit use. To inquire about licensing, please visit **www.digitallife3d.org**.

Model 55A - Southern Right Whale

1884 - 1895
This is one of the most famous sculptures by Auguste Rodin

[The Burghers of Calais on Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Burghers_of_Calais)

Scanned in the garden of Musée Rodin in Paris. Reconstructed from 38 photos with Recap360.

Les Bourgeois de Calais by Rodin

London primary Financial District night city megalopolis skyline downtown cloudscape panorama

Experimental vr, reconstructed solely from 4K drone footage, 4x8K textures

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London Financial District

A 5th century AD monastery, the largest in the Judean desert. The complex is built on the southern cliffs of the Kidron creek, and is protected inside a walled area with dozens of structures. It was established by Saint Sabas (Arabic: Mar Saba, Syriac: Lord Saba), and named after him. The monastery started as a place of seclusion of few monks in the caves, led by Sabas. Over the years it was built, expanded, and fortified. During the peak times it housed about 500 monks.
   The site is located 10KM east of Bethlehem, near the desert road to Jerusalem. It is 250M above sea level, hanging over a steep cliff above the Kidron creek. The Kidron starts from the valley between the temple mount and Mount of olives in Jerusalem, and flows eastwards to the Dead sea.
https://www.biblewalks.com/marsaba

Reconstructed from 4K drone footage only. Raw scan to showcase drone footage original quality/shortcomings. 
Could be much improved with a 30minutes Blender. 2x16K texures. 95M tris.

https://pavelmatousek.cz/3d/

Mar Saba monastery

A British Lynx Mk9A helicopter located in the National Army Museum, London.

It was manufactured in 1992 and saw service in Iraq in 2009.

https://www.nam.ac.uk/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westland_Lynx

259 photos taken in February 2022 with a Sony a7R III and processed in Reality Capture.
All propellor blades have been reconstructed due to processing errors.

Lynx Helicopter

Yokohama city, Japan avenue street downtown skyscrapers hotel skyline at night


Experimental vr, reconstructed solely from found 8K drone footage, 2x16K tiff textures.

Yokohama downtown

This is a 3D model  of a racer snake (Dolichophis jugularis) scanned using the Beastcam MACRO on a live snake in Cyprus. The mass of the snake is 479 grams. CG artist Jer Bot retopologized and reconstructed the snake in the open source 3D animation software Blender (blender.org). He did this through images captured using an array of six Canon G16 cameras and other reference photos. The construction of this model is part of the post-doc research of Dr. Savvas Zotos (POST-DOC/0916/0034) (https://retrack.terracypria.org) and is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and Innovation Foundation. This 3D model will be used as a means for both studying and presenting the species movement and behavioural patterns.

Downloads are freely available for creative and non-profit use. To inquire about licensing, please visit **www.digitallife3d.org**.

Model 60A - Cyprus Racer Snake

This is an animation of a juvenile (straight minimum carapace length = 27.5 cm, mass = 3.0 kg) green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) that was reconstructed from photos and measurements from a live individual. The turtle was collected by Inwater Research Group during an in-water assessment to gain valuable insights into the demographics of this threatened species.  The turtle was in good health and released back into the wild.  A CG artist (Johnson Martin) reconstructed the turtle using Blender software.

Downloads are freely available for creative and non-profit use. To inquire about licensing, please visit **www.digitallife3d.org**.

Model 72B - Juvenile Green Sea Turtle

Digital reconstruction from crowdsourced photogrammetry. Work in progress. 
This is part of the initiative for Digital reconstruction of Shurijo Castle:  https://www.our-shurijo.org/index_en.html
Final model will be updated in the near future with better mesh and textures.
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Shurijo castle is a Ryukyuan gusuku in Shuri, Okinawa. Between 1429 and 1879, it was the palace of the Ryukyu Kingdom, before becoming largely neglected. In 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa, it was almost completely destroyed. After the war, the castle was re-purposed as a university campus. Beginning in 1992, the central citadel and walls were largely reconstructed on the original site based on historical records, photographs, and memory. On the morning of 31 October 2019, the main courtyard structures of the castle were destroyed in a fire.

Shuri Castle / Shurijō, Naha - Okinawa .WIP

- Captured using Sony a9 w/ Voigtlander 15mm lens. 
- Reconstructed with RealityCapture
- Cleaned up w/ MeshMixer

Elevator in Berlin - Realities.io

Capture of an unbleached cow skull, nicknamed 'Kevin' (the skull not, the cow, whom is unnamed).

Captured on a Sony ZV-1 and reconstructed in Reality Capture. No pre or post processing, straight export.

500,000 tris
1 of 4096 x 4096 texture

Cow Skull

This is an animation of a juvenile (straight minimum carapace length = 75.1 mm, mass = 72.8 g, age=20 days) Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) that was reconstructed from photos and measurements from a live individual. The turtle was collected by Jeanette Wyneken (Florida Atlantic University) for her research on leatherback ecology and development, and the model was created in collaboration with the Upwell Non-Profit (https://www.upwell.org/).  CG artist Johnson Martin reconstructed the turtle using Blender software.

Downloads are freely available for creative and non-profit use. To inquire about licensing, please visit **www.digitallife3d.org**.

Model 74A - Juvenile Leatherback Sea Turtle

Butrón (Basque: Butroeko gaztelua) is a castle located in Gatika, in the province of Biscay, in northern Spain. It dates originally from the Middle Ages, although it owes its present appearance to an almost complete rebuilding begun by Francisco de Cubas (also known as Marqués de Cubas) in 1878. The castle has a fairy-tale look about it inspired by Bavarian castle models. The present building was created as a hobby for its then owner and to create something which is visually spectacular rather than to produce something in which people could actually live. In fact it would be quite inconvenient as a home as the towers have little useful space and various parts of the castle have exterior connections which are not particularly apt for the wet Basque weather.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butr%C3%B3n

Download: https://www.fab.com/listings/5f57d6c0-9730-4620-b180-32c97f806589


Experimental, reconstructed from various 4K drone footage only

Butron castle

This is a 3D model of a female Bottlenose dolphin (“Poli”) from Honduras (Tursiops truncatus) which was re-created from photographs and other information provided by the staff at the Roatan Institute for Marine Sciences (RIMS) at Anthony’s Key Resort in Roatan, Honduras.  Mass is 147 kg; Total length (TL) is 241 cm.

CG artists Johnson Martin and Robert Gutierrez reconstructed this individual dolphin from photographs and other information using the open-access software Blender.

Downloads are freely available for creative and non-profit use. To inquire about licensing, please visit **www.digitallife3d.org**.

Model 61A - Bottlenose Dolphin

St Giles-without-Cripplegate Church in the Barbican, London showing the interior, rooms under the church and a cutaway of the exterior and tower.

This is a beautiful church sitting in the middle of the post war Barbican estate with parts dating to the 15th Century. The Cripplegate name comes from the nearby (and long vanished) Roman gateway into the City of London.

See annotations for details within the church.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Giles-without-Cripplegate

A huge thank you to Jake Kirner for his assistance and providing access to the church.

6333 photos taken in October 2019 with a Sony a6000 and processed in Agisoft Metashape and Reality Capture. Cleaned up and combined in Autodesk Maya.

All but first row of pews and surrounding floor are reconstructed due to scanning errors.

St Giles Cripplegate

This is an animation of subadult male Whale Shark (Individual TZ 209, "Mosi" Rhincodon typus) that was reconstructed from gopro footage based on dives with the shark nearby Mafia Island, Tanzania in November 2022. We thank Chris Rohner and Stephanie Venables for diving with us, and for providing footage and for generally supporting the work.

CG artists Johnson Martin and Aaron Olsen used the software Blender to align various gopro camera views to reconstruc thte body shape of this individual.  "Mosi" has been filmed previously along the Mafia coastline and is well known to divers there.

The Marine Megafauna Foundation (https://marinemegafauna.org/) coordinated and supported this research, and Jon Bayuk kindly supported funded construction of the model and other costs.

Downloads are freely available for creative and non-profit use. To inquire about licensing, please visit www.digitallife3d.org.

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