Tag: mughals

  • More Naulakha!

    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…

  • Naulakha: Lahore Fort

    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…

  • Islamic Patterns

    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…

  • Mughal Architecture

    Mughal Architecture

    I seemed to have been quite obsessed with cultural research as a teen/young adult. I recently discovered a leather-bound book that contained my 4500 word dissertation for school, based on the architecture of the Mughal Empire. This was such an exciting project for me, I remember my mom and I traveled to Lahore (we live…