A castle on a floating turtle cruising through the skies. I made this by kitbashing two different photogrammetry models ([turtle](https://skfb.ly/o67Kn), [Bran castle](https://skfb.ly/6QSQV)) and projection mapping in Blender+Photoshop. 

I wrote a post covering how to make stylized painterly 3D scenes, if you would like to know more details on the how it is done: https://medium.com/@shahriyarshahrabi/creating-painterly-3d-scenes-preparing-assets-for-npr-8d6c726cc34f

Floating Castle

Crystal Palace 1920's Cinema Projection Room  square made using the photos dataset provided by Simon Che de Boer (realityvirtual.co)
Thanks a lot for sharing!! :-)

https://sketchfab.com/models/7cd03d4060ba4c6d91bde0949f71f5d9
full room scan here 
More info about Crystal Palace
https://vimeo.com/132294910

You can download the full dataset here
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1McPOAd2Yn_au1brAlosIC75v9shUbQ8z/view

Crystal Palace Cinema from realityvirtual.co

Raw scan made on cinema movie projector that is standing in Kijów Centrum Cimena in Kraków, Poland
It was used for 35mm tape. Produced in the 1961 by Łódzkie Zakłady Kinotechniczne in Poland. The projector was designed for cinemas with rooms up to 1000 seats. It was then one of the most popular models used in Polish cinemas

The projector was equipped with an aspherical mirror with a diameter of 356 mm and a focal length of 120 mm. The standard lens provided by the manufacturer was Polkinar 1.8 / 100

The basic equipment of the projector was an optical sound reading system with two exposure bulbs - one in the working position, the other one in reserve (both fixed in the rotating holder, which allowed for exchange without interrupting the projection). In addition, the projector could be equipped with a 4-channel magnetic sound pickup

The projector was powered by a three-phase asynchronous motor. The engine was started using an automatic starter.
https://youtu.be/-xr1BMyKNWI
MusicInfo: Piano by AShamaluevMusic

Cinema Movie Projector AP5 - 1961

An old unfinished project that I didn't want to trash. Baked in Eevee using texture projections. A full yellow cel-shaded surveillance room with retro design. Originally, two characters are sitting and presses the button if anything moves on any screen.

Surveillance room

Sea Wave- Deniz dalgası

Hatsune Miku (Japanese: 初音ミク), also called Miku Hatsune, is a Japanese Vocaloid software voicebank developed by Crypton Future Media and its official moe anthropomorphism, a 16-year-old girl with long, turquoise twintails. Miku's personification has been marketed as a virtual idol and has performed at live concerts onstage as an animated projection (rear cast projection on a specially coated glass screen).

Hatsune Miku

Made this orange study using blender and photoshop. It is based on a painting by the painter Süleyman seyyid, who was an ottoman painter from later ottoman period. 
The texture painting is done mostly using projection mapping.

Still life with Orange

Source: [Smithsonian Institution](http://3d.si.edu/apollo11cm/index.php#downloads)

Apollo Command Module Interior Sphere Projection

The Karlmann King is a low-production SUV that is manufactured in Italy and the United States.

The price starts at $1.85 million, for the standard version. It is the most expensive SUV in the world. It features a 6.8-liter V10 engine which produced 398 horsepower. However, because the Karlmann King weighs an abnormally-heavy 10,580 pounds (Without armor), its top speed is a mere 87 mph. The car features optional bullet proofing. Only 9 units will be built in Italy, however a larger, unknown number will be built in the United States in a modified and more standardized version. Other features include independent air conditioning for the front and rear, a coffee machine, neon sky lighting, a flat-screen TV, electric tables, air purification, a bar, a laptop and a fridge. All of the electric features can be controlled via an in and out-car app or a built-in control panel. Entertainment options include a Hi-Fi sound system, a PlayStation 4, phone projection, satellite TV and Wi-Fi.

Karlmann King

Crystal Palace 1920’s Cinema Projection Room square made using the photos dataset provided by Simon Che de Boer (realityvirtual.co) Thanks a lot for sharing!! :-)

More info about Crystal Palace https://vimeo.com/132294910

Projection room full photogrammetry scan

Made with 3ds Max 2017 and Substance Painter

**From Wikipedia:**
The Corinthian helmet originated in ancient Greece and took its name from the city-state of Corinth. It was a helmet made of bronze which in its later styles covered the entire head and neck, with slits for the eyes and mouth. A large curved projection protected the nape of the neck.

Out of combat, a Greek hoplite would wear the helmet tipped upward for comfort. This practice gave rise to a series of variant forms in Italy, where the slits were almost closed, since the helmet was no longer pulled over the face but worn cap-like. Although the classical Corinthian helmet fell out of use among the Greeks in favour of more open types, the Italo-Corinthian types remained in use until the 1st century AD, being used, among others, by the Roman army.

PBR Corinthian Helmet

Godzilla, nothing more than an itch, as I fire up sketchup and model this very low poly mutated lizard, I think it would be fun to texture it, asof now, the model is textured in projection mode (multi angles), its a lot of fun doing it. The texture is in 4K anyhow. i would say the out some is not too shabby.
*Updated with her fiering  her atomic breath!  I hope I didn't over do it.

godzilla_low_poly

Peerless Magnarc Cinema Projectors from Crystal Palace 1920’s Cinema Projection Room
Made using the photos dataset provided by Simon Che de Boer (realityvirtual.co) Thanks a lot for sharing!! :-)
More info about Crystal Palace https://vimeo.com/132294910
You can download the full dataset here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1McPOAd2Yn_au1brAlosIC75v9shUbQ8z/view

Peerless Magnarc Cinema Projectors

This is my first attempt at perspective projection using FSPY, where I took a flat image of a subway tunnel and modelled it, projecting that flat image as the texture.

Here's the result!

Tunnel Test

A Mercator map of the starry heavens drawn by William Croswell,1810.
The 19th century western constellations are projected on the earth for navigation references.
By building your city under the projected trajectory of a star at a specific time. Now you can navigate, from land to sea, and from city to city.  By checking the map you can still see that some cities have been founded with this principle in mind. This was the antiquity GPS system. far more reliable than the modern one. This is why the medieval astrological projections are inverted. Because it is not to document the sky, but to document the "where about" on earth. By also knowing the cyclic derivation of a selected star (around 15 meters par year), you can also deduce the date of the city foundation as long as you have the correct data.

Mercator map of the starry heavens

Mars – High-Detail 3D Planet Model

This 3D model represents Mars, often called the Red Planet, known for its iron-rich surface, massive volcanoes, deep canyons, and thin atmosphere. As one of the most studied planets in our solar system, Mars has long fascinated scientists and space explorers as a potential candidate for future human exploration.

Designed with a realistic and atmospheric presentation, this model captures Mars’s dusty terrain, subtle color variations, and rugged surface features. It is ideal for space visualizations, educational projects, cinematic scenes, and sci-fi environments.

Optimized for real-time use while maintaining strong visual quality, this asset is suitable for games, VR experiences, simulations, and interactive applications.

Mars: The Red Dessert Planet: Nasa Projection

Earth Planet Model (PBR Textured)
A realistic 3D model of Earth featuring detailed surface textures that capture continents, oceans, and atmospheric cloud patterns. This model includes normal and ambient occlusion maps to enhance terrain depth and lighting, making mountains, coastlines, and surface variation stand out.

Designed for both real-time and high-quality rendering, this Earth model is optimized for seamless spherical projection and works perfectly in games, simulations, and educational projects.

Features:

High-resolution Earth surface texture (land, oceans, clouds)
Normal map for enhanced terrain detail
Ambient occlusion map for realistic shading
Clean UV mapping for spherical models
Optimized for engines like Roblox, Unity, Unreal, and Blender

Perfect for:

Space and sci-fi games
Planetary systems and solar simulations
Educational visualizations
Cinematic renders and animations

Bring Earth into your project with accurate visuals and realistic lighting.

Earth (PBR TEXTURES)

Mars Planet Model (PBR Textured)
A detailed 3D model of Mars featuring high-quality surface textures for realistic rendering. This model includes carefully generated normal and ambient occlusion maps to enhance depth, bringing out craters, valleys, and terrain variations across the planet’s surface.

Optimized for real-time use, this model is ideal for space games, sci-fi environments, simulations, or educational projects. The textures are mapped for seamless spherical projection, ensuring a clean and realistic planetary look from any angle.

Features:

High-resolution Mars surface texture
Normal map for enhanced surface detail
Ambient occlusion map for realistic shading
Clean UV mapping for spherical models
Ready for use in engines like Roblox, Unity, Unreal, and Blender

Perfect for:

Space exploration games
Planetary systems and skyboxes
Sci-fi scenes and animations
Educational visualizations

Bring the Red Planet into your project with realistic detail and performance-friendly design.

Mars (PBR TEXTURES)

**This one is for free!!!!!!!**

As of early 2026, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) operates three aircraft carriers: the commissioned Type 001 Liaoning, the Type 002 Shandong (both ski-jump, conventional), and the advanced Type 003 Fujian (electromagnetic catapult, conventional), with a fourth, potentially nuclear-powered carrier, in development. The Fujian, which joined the fleet in late 2025, significantly enhances China's power projection capabilities.


If you would like to 3D Print, please download it in here.
https://makerworld.com/zh/models/2474146-chinese-aircraft-carrier#profileId-2716725

Suggested size is 1:2000(500%), 1:3000(333.3%) or 1:5000 (200%)

Visit my website to check out my other models.
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Thank you for your support!!!

Chinese Aircraft Carrier

This is pure computational topology. 
Not sculpted by hand, this model is the direct 3D output of the Polytopic Archetypal Projection Protocol (PAPP).
The Origin: The seed is the Shamseh, a radial star pattern from Islamic sacred geometry. 
Its 2D ratios were fed into an "algebraic transducer", mapped onto a 4D space using a Fibonacci lattice on an $S^3$ hypersphere, and projected into 3D via a Hopf fibration.
The Build (V5.1): Driven exclusively by the Golden Ratio ($\phi$) and Euclidean metrics, it generates hyper-dense, crystallized concentric shells—a "Cosmic Onion".
Network Science Data: Vertices: 163,892 deterministic nodes.
Clustering (C): 0.847 (pathologically high local density).
Path Length: 30.14.It acts like a "harmonic glass": locally perfect but lacking the small-world routing of our later builds.
Visual proof that coherent math collapses into brutal spatial elegance.

Shamseh V5.1 "Cosmic Onion"

**New Theropod Species Unveiled: Tyrannovenator ignicolor**

In 2023, paleontologist Dr. Rafael Kim and his team unearthed a striking theropod specimen in the Kaiparowits Plateau of southern Utah. Named *Tyrannovenator ignicolor*—“Flame-Colored Tyrant Hunter”—this mid-sized predator exhibits unprecedented preservation of pigment structures and dermal ornamentation. Measuring roughly 7 meters long, it features prominent cranial crests and spine-like projections along its back, suggesting a role in visual display or intimidation.

Microscopic analysis revealed melanosome patterns consistent with iridescent and carotenoid-rich coloration, marking the first strong evidence of multi-hue signaling in apex predators. The discovery challenges assumptions about camouflage in large theropods and opens new avenues in the study of dinosaur behavior, ecology, and evolution. *T. ignicolor* stands as a vivid reminder that prehistoric life may have been far more colorful, and complex, than previously imagined.

Flame-Colored Tyrant Hunter - dinosaur

Beyond manual sculpting: this is pure computational topology. 
This model is the direct, deterministic 3D output of the Polytopic Archetypal Projection Protocol (PAPP).
The Origin: The mathematical seed is the "Flower of Life", the fundamental matrix of sacred geometry based on overlapping circles with hexagonal symmetry. Its 2D ratios were extracted and fed into our "algebraic transducer".
The Pipeline: The algorithm processed these constants via Continued Fractions and Pythagorean reductions, mapping the data onto a Fibonacci lattice in a 4D hypersphere ($S^3$). 
Finally, the space was projected into 3D via a Hopf fibration ($S^3 \rightarrow S^2$).
The Result (V309): The mathematical coherence of the Flower of Life does not produce chaotic noise. 
It forces the system to naturally collapse into a dense, highly interconnected, and topologically closed ($\chi=2$) spatial lattice. 
An architecture of pure algebraic mechanics.
Procedurally generated via the PAPP Framework (Python/SciPy/NetworkX).

Flower of Life V309 | PAPP Generative Topology

**Tyrannovenator iridens: A New Theropod from Inner Mongolia**

In 2025, paleontologist Dr. Wei Zhang led a Sino-European team to the Alashan Desert, where they uncovered a remarkably preserved theropod specimen exhibiting complex dermal ornamentation and pigment structures. Named *Tyrannovenator iridens*—“Iridescent Tyrant Hunter”—this 7.5-meter predator displayed prominent spinal projections and scale patterns consistent with structural coloration, suggesting a shimmering, multi-hued appearance.

The fossil’s preservation included melanosomes and nano-scale ridges, offering the first evidence of iridescence in a large carnivorous dinosaur. This challenges assumptions about predator concealment and supports theories of visual signaling in social or territorial behavior. The discovery of *T. iridens* marks a pivotal moment in understanding the role of color and display in Late Cretaceous ecosystems.

Iridescent Tyrant Hunter - dinosaur

Flat stamp or seal in the form of a star or flower, with five projections or points (originally six), each decorated with a series of three parallel grooves. At the center is a quadruped animal, possibly a deer (Odocoileus virginianus).

 IDAEH Cultural Property No.  16.2.5.1071
 
www.fundacionrutamaya.org

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

3D model made using Artec Space Spider

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