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Orthostat 41, Knowth Western Tomb (Photo)
Orthostat 41 is located in the largest megalithic tomb (Tomb 1 West) at Knowth, County Meath, Ireland (ME019-030001-). It is decorated with incised lines which outline area-picked triangles. The principal design, which covers most of the stone, consists of three rows of upright triangles at the top of the stone, a mix of triangles and lozenges on the middle-right, a herringbone panel at the middle…
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Creator
- The Discovery Programme
Subject
- archaeolgy
- megalithic
- megalithic art
- passage tomb
- orthostat
- megalithic chamber tombs
- petroglyphs
- orthostats
- Cromlech
Type of item
- 3D
Creator
- The Discovery Programme
Subject
- archaeolgy
- megalithic
- megalithic art
- passage tomb
- orthostat
- megalithic chamber tombs
- petroglyphs
- orthostats
- Cromlech
Type of item
- 3D
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Rights
- © 2024 The Discovery Programme – All rights reserved
Creation date
- 2024
- 2024
Temporal
- Neolithic
Places
- Knowth
Provenance
- Capture Technology: Artec EVA Structured light scanner. Capture date 17/09/2018. Mesh processing: Artec Studio v16 Professional – Global Registration – Fast Fusion Alignment – Small Object Filter – Sharp Fusion Alignment – Mesh cleaned of external areas – High polygon mesh export (3,000,000 polygons) Mesh Processing: Geomagic Design X v2024.2.0 – Mesh Decimation (Target 50,000 High curvature area resolution - dense), Healing wizard (Removal of Non-manifolds, Folded Poly-faces, Dangling Poly-faces, Crossing Poly-faces), Fill Holes (ignore biggest hole), Healing wizard (Removal of Non-manifolds, Folded Poly-faces, Dangling Poly-faces, Crossing Poly-faces), Smooth (Smoothness level 0.5) – Low Polygon mesh export (54,500 polygons) Texturing: Unwrapping of mesh (3DS Max 2025). Production of primary UVW texture maps (Normal, Ambient Occlusion, Position, Height, Cavity, Curvature) by baking High polygon detail using Marmoset Toolbag v4. 8K Texture - Hyper realistic photo texture through combined photo texture (Artec Studio v16 Professional) and synthetic stone smart material (Substance Painter v10).; Mesh cleaning; Mesh processing; Mesh retopology; Mesh simplification (decimation); Structured light scanning
Identifier
- share3d:2012
- share3d:2012
Format
- glTF
Language
- English
- en
Is part of
- Share3D
- Ireland
Relations
- Royal Irish Academy. Excavations at Knowth vol. 7: The megalithic art of the passage tombs at Knowth, County Meath. Digital Repository of Ireland (2023) [Publisher]. Royal Irish Academy [Depositor].
Year
- 2024
Providing country
- Ireland
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2025-01-06T15:45:09.116Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2025-01-06T15:45:09.116Z