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Aug. 21st, 2023 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kradeelavso I was looking up some 3D model assets for work today and it isn't often my mind is blown, but apparently there's some people who have the hobby of taking gazilions of pictures of old historical locations and re-creating them as 3D VR-ish models. the only thing you need is a halfway modern browser.
and it's all, like, free. for you to "walk" around in with your mouse and zoom in, not even talking about the halfassed versions that museums sometimes do. especially cool models below:
* this cathedral looks exactly like something i had out of a dream ten years ago
* detroit street art in an abandoned warehouse
* this charterhouse hall is an amazing reference for a medieval-fantasy eating hall with some wicked cool context in the comment
* kharkiv fire brigade in ukraine (!) - scanned/uploaded as a way to preserve the historical artefact
* this cool house in a museam with annotations + "making of" screencaps where you can get a sense of how many images were needed
* HMS belfast engine room (it's a ship!!) - (warning: if any model is going to make your computer lock up, it's this one)
legit, my jaw dropped at imagining how useful this is for us comic artists when you need a weird angle for something, but you also want it to feel more authentic than something low-poly. these models feel lived in in the way that it's hard for procederally generated stuff to feel. it feels wild to see this when i remember at being ecstatic at seeing like, really shitty FF7 low poly level models starting to appear online 10-15 years ago.
and it's all, like, free. for you to "walk" around in with your mouse and zoom in, not even talking about the halfassed versions that museums sometimes do. especially cool models below:
* this cathedral looks exactly like something i had out of a dream ten years ago
* detroit street art in an abandoned warehouse
* this charterhouse hall is an amazing reference for a medieval-fantasy eating hall with some wicked cool context in the comment
* kharkiv fire brigade in ukraine (!) - scanned/uploaded as a way to preserve the historical artefact
* this cool house in a museam with annotations + "making of" screencaps where you can get a sense of how many images were needed
* HMS belfast engine room (it's a ship!!) - (warning: if any model is going to make your computer lock up, it's this one)
legit, my jaw dropped at imagining how useful this is for us comic artists when you need a weird angle for something, but you also want it to feel more authentic than something low-poly. these models feel lived in in the way that it's hard for procederally generated stuff to feel. it feels wild to see this when i remember at being ecstatic at seeing like, really shitty FF7 low poly level models starting to appear online 10-15 years ago.
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Date: 2023-08-23 05:15 pm (UTC)...Besides the need to now hold myself back from exploring this and spending the entire day on it, instead of working, because oh my god, YES. I've wanted something like this for YEARS (because as you point it out, ya need the weird angle for dem comics sometimes.) Man, fun new toy came at a bad time lol, gotta make time to play with it later.
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Date: 2023-08-25 06:55 pm (UTC)Hope you do get the leisure time to go through it! <3