Category: Blender

The two example outputs shown in Nomad Sculpt
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Making textured 3D digital assets using depth maps and Python 3

If you read my previous post about using Python 3 to make trimmable and sculptable textured planes…

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A Roman Flagon from Caerleon

When it comes to roman pottery, the area around Caerleon, in south Wales, seems to have been…

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The end product as created by OpenSCAD
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OBJ to OpenSCAD bridges using Python 3

Blender and OpenSCAD are two of my favourite open-source 3D creation apps. Blender because it’s a swiss…

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VR360 RGB-D images to OBJ files in Python 3

Taking 360-degree photos is a lot of fun, but it’s very difficult to take stereoscopic 3D VR…

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Rhoslan Dolmen feature image of a 3D model painted and with a small model of a man sitting on it
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Rhoslan Dolmen 1:76 scale model

Sometimes the best neolithic sites seem to be nestled away in the British countryside with few good…

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Chester roman columns feature image
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Columns from Chester Roman Gardens

Chester, or Deva as it was once known, was a Roman city home to the 20th Legion:…

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The remains of the Roman gravestone to Marcus Aurelius Lucius
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Marcus Aurelius Lucius Roman Gravestone

For a far flung part of the ancient empire, Britain is fortunate to have many Roman remains….

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The Newport Griffin (left) with the LumaLabsAI scan textured and just base mesh
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The Newport Griffin by Chris Wood

Griffins have been around for millennia, their importance grounded in them being a cross between the lion…

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Llanelli gorseed altar stone feature image showing the altar close up
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Llanelli Gorsedd Circle Altar Stones

If you’ve visited many Welsh towns you may have noticed that they often have a stone circle….

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Two zoom scan subjects
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Photogrammetry from a distance

Photogrammetry apps sometimes warn us that results may suffer if we use zoomed-in photographs. I’m no expert,…

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