This magnificent armour made [King Erik XIV](https://bit.ly/2XHLbZ0) of Sweden look imposingly triumphant. In true renaissance spirit, the motifs on the armour were borrowed from ancient myths, the characteristics of which lent themselves perfectly to the Swedish history and national symbols of that time.

The armour was probably made in [Arboga](https://bit.ly/2FQKrGy), Sweden, around 1562, from where it was sent to Antwerp in Belgium to be decorated by the goldsmith Elisaeus Libaerts. The opaque gilt ornamentation has been [repousséd](https://bit.ly/2xuxmy0) from the back and chased from the front. 

Perhaps the armour was worn by King Erik XIV on 2 October 1564 when, following a military campaign in [Blekinge](https://bit.ly/2KUVNNQ) in the South of Swedan, he returned to Stockholm with his military entourage. Whilst winding its way through the streets of Stockholm, the procession was showcasing chained prisoners of war from Denmark, a motif that can also be found on the armour.

The Parade Armour of King Erik XIV of Sweden

Namibia, Southwest Africa, ~543 million years old.

Created for the First Animals exhibition at Oxford University Museum of Natural History: www.oum.ox.ac.uk/firstanimals

Model by Mighty Fossils: www.mightyfossils.com

Namacalathus hermanastes

This is a 3D model of Bakari, a **Southern Right Rhino** (Ceratotherium simum) from **Perth Zoo**, Western Australia, which was initially scanned using an array of 20 Canon G16 cameras.  CG artist **Jer Bot** used the open source 3D animation software **Blender** (blender.org) to fully reconstruct the rhino. The mass of the Rhino is 2225 kg and its length is 2.1 meters. Reference photos were also used as a guide to create taxonomic features onto the 3D model using Blender's sculpting tools.

If you are interested in downloading this 3D model, please visit our website www.digitallife3d.org

Model 56A - Southern White Rhino

Free 8K model of Heliophila: tiny white Namaqualand wildflower groundcover from South Africa, delicate stems and realistic botanical detail for desert scenes.

Flower Heliophila

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

A collection of city buildings originally created for a personal project. Includes buildings based on real prototypes, and simple fictional ones. You will most likely recognize some architectural landmarks of New York and Chicago, adjusted for a simplified look. The exception is the waffle-shaped building, based on a typical municipal building of the American Southwest. The materials are repeated here and there, but you can live with that. This variety should be enough to create a believable background of the urban environment similar to American cities of the Rust Belt.

I unconditionally give you permission to use this model at your discretion, modify it or implement it into a digital product. Use the model as you see fit and have a nice day.

Downtown Buildings Set - Low Poly model

**Non- Commercials **
Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris

4K Texture As 
Diffuse 
Metallic Roughness
 Normal Map
 
 as FBX Original File
![](https://static.nationalgeographic.co.uk/files/styles/image_3200/public/capybara_nationalgeographic_1518115.jpg?w=1600&h=1064)

The capybara or greater capybara is a giant cavy rodent native to South America. It is the largest living rodent and a member of the genus Hydrochoerus. The only other extant member is the lesser capybara.

Capybara (Low Poly)

A world famous skate park in the Undercroft beneath Queen Elizabeth Hall on the Southbank, London.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Live_Southbank
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visit/outdoor-spaces/southbank-centre-skatepark

2773 photos taken in September 2020 with a Sony a6000 and processed in Reality Capture.

Southbank Undercroft Skatepark

"The Southern District Police Station is a historic police station located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a monumental Romanesque Revival steel-framed building faced in stone and brick constructed in 1896. The station is composed of a three-story cubic main block, a two-story rear ell, and two additions built in the 1950s that fill most of the remainder of the corner lot. The building remained in use by the Baltimore Police Department until the mid-1980s, when it was sold to a local non-profit group."
-[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_District_Police_Station)

Created using 978 images taken with a DJI Mavic Mini and processed in RealityCapture.

Southern District Police Station

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

**Engadine Macca's** *"The last place where Scomo did crap."*

**This model is free but please consider supporting me! https://buymeacoffee.com/jotrain**

McDonald's fast-food resturant in Engadine, New South Wales, Australia notable for being the place where Australia's former prime minster *Scott Morrison* 'allegely' crapped his pants at in 1997.

Been working on this build for a month was original made to be used in Cities Skylines.

Engadine McDonalds Restaurant (low Poly)

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

Free 8K Namaqualand boulder model - rugged Karoo rock from South Africa with brown, weathered surfaces and lichen patches for landscaping.

Namaqualand Boulder 04

Photogrammetry capture of Southwark Borough Control bunker under the community plot at the corner of Vestry Road and Peckham Road, London.

These borough control centres were built during the cold war as a place to continue local government during an attack. Few survive in London today so this is a rare 3D record of one such bunker although it is in very poor condition, with flooding throughout.

All information used in the annotating of this model came from this report by Nick Catford (2001):
https://www.subbrit.org.uk/sites/southwark-borough-control/

Huge thank you to local residents Joanna and Joe for inviting me to scan this bunker.

The bunker entrance is locked closed and it is not accessible to the public in its current state.

3240 photos taken in May 2021 with a Sony a6000 and processed in Reality Capture.
Bunker was pitch black so 7 LED camping lights and one LED diffuse panel were used for lighting.

Southwark Borough Control Bunker

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

World Trade Center is the original complex that once stood in New York from the start of construction in 1966 groundbreaking, until they were destroyed on September 11, 2001. The complex was opened to public on April 4, 1974; although some buildings were not built or completed yet at the time. It consisted of 7 buildings, the famous being were the twin towers that were once the world's tallest buildings for only 2 years when they were surpassed by Willis (Sears) Tower. Of course, these twin towers ended the Empire State Building's 40 year reign. The old 7 World Trade Center was the last building to be built in that complex, which was built in 1987 and the last building to fall on 9/11 about 7 hours after the North Tower (tower with antenna) fell. The North Tower (1 WTC) was 1,368 feet tall and 1,728 feet with the antenna, while the South Tower (2 WTC) was 1,362 feet tall. They were very famous and appeared in many movie films, they were also an icon of New York City.

World Trade Center

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

Free 4K model of Namaqualand ursinia - low, sprawling orange wildflower from South Africa’s Karoo; botanical detail, perfect groundcover for desert scenes.

Flower Ursinia

The Helix Bridge, officially The Helix, and previously known as the Double Helix Bridge, is a pedestrian bridge linking Marina Centre with Marina South in the Marina Bay area in Singapore.

Thank you Parametricks for this amazing tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/c/Parametricks

If you like this 3d model, please like, comment and follow me.

Helix Bridge

3D scan of a Terror-bird model from the species *Paraphysornis brasiliensis*. Members of the Phorusrhacidae family are commonly known under the term "terror birds". Species of these apex predators could reach a height up to 3 meters! They lived mainly in South America from the early Tertiary (55 million years ago) until the late glacial period. 

This model can be found in Hall 9 at the NHM Vienna.

**Specimen**: *Paraphysornis brasiliensis* (Alvarenga, 1982)

**Inventory number**: NHMW-GEO-2012/0007/0001

**Collection**: Natural History Museum Vienna, Geology & Paleontology Dept., Vertebrate Coll. (curator: Ursula Göhlich)

Find out more about the NHMW [here](http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/en).

Scanned and edited by Nikola Brodtmann, Anna Haider & Viola Winkler (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Leo. Infrastructure funded by the FFG.

Terror Bird (NHMW-GEO-2012/0007/0001)

Free 8K model of weathered Namaqualand quartz stones, varied Karoo desert rocks from South Africa, realistic, high-detail assets for nature and geological scenes.

Namaqualand Stones 01

Saw some concept art of the "Thunderclap Temple 雷音寺" from "Black Myth: Wukong 黑神話悟空" on artstation and was inspired to recreate the build in minecraft a couple months ago.

**Original concept art:** https://www.artstation.com/artwork/bgl3yv

There are some minor differences / changes to the design, and the interior was improvised so it might not be accurate. I actually haven't played the game myself, only watched livestreams of it.

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**The build is on the southern side of my resourcepack test world, you can find the map download here:**

https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/patrix-32x/changelog

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Built in minecraft with WorldEdit, exported with Mineways / jmc2obj, manually fixed export errors in 3Ds Max, secondary UV unwrapped in Zbrush, lighting/AO/snow map baked in Marmoset Toolbag.

Thunderclap Temple

Free 8K model of a dried wild rooibos shrub from South Africa's Karoo/Namaqualand - low, multi-stemmed desert bush with needle-like leaves, perfect for arid scenes.

Wild Rooibos Bush

The helmet was fashioned in southern Germany circa [1540](https://bit.ly/2kdFNLr), and is unusual because it is one of the few surviving helmets adorned with a crown.

It was purchased in [Augsburg](https://bit.ly/2MwwuQc) on the King's behalf by his agent, the merchant Claus Heijder. The helmet was likely used in [Gustav Vasa's](https://bit.ly/2k10R7K) funeral procession in 1560, because a helmet adorned with a gilded crown is mentioned by a contemporary who witnessed the ceremony. The gilded crown is medieval in style – a suitable symbol of Gustav Vasa, who had one foot in the old union and one in the newly minted [hereditary monarchy](https://bit.ly/2kdG7tD).

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