Tag: islamic history
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More Naulakha!
I couldn’t resist rendering this little section out in a 360-viewable format.It literally took 20 minutes to render out each frame, but it’s wonderful to be able to save this progress in a way where you can pause the video and just use your mouse to “look around” the scene. Just think, once this is…
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Naulakha: Lahore Fort
Making this Fort is an ambitious project, especially since the buildings within span the tastes of four generations of Mughal Emperors. I don’t know what possessed me to try to make the Naulakha (or the Queen’s Pavillion). Maybe it’s because this is one of the smallest monuments in this Fort, or maybe because I had…
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Babur
The first of the Great Mughals, Babur was the orphan king who ascended to the throne as an 11-year old. In the decades that followed, he experienced great strife and turmoil, but his unbeatable spirit won the loyalties of armies and followers across Central and South Asia.
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Islamic Patterns
Despite not having concrete measurements to officially start builing elements of the Fort, I decided to go ahead and see if I could solve the (inevitable) issues of creating this monument before we get started. This has led me through quite a process! I build things, hate them and build again. I’ve had a similar…
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Lahore Fort: Getting Started
After a couple of months of just writing about the Lahore Fort Project, I finally decided to go back into 3D and try to make something! This was harder than I expected. There are a million components to everything, and literally every surface has some new and intricate pattern all over it!Even as I try…