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Nerd facts
Church in 3D
How this page delivers 3D model and point cloud.
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Open a media view to see what it used.
3D models
Most 3D views come from photogrammetry: photos turned into a textured mesh. The page starts from a saved camera angle so the object opens in a readable pose.
Lighter and sharper model rungs are separate. Texture labels only appear when that format is actually published.
glTF and GLB · KTX2 textures
Point clouds
A point cloud is the scene as many colored points instead of a solid mesh. It is good for seeing what the reconstruction actually measured.
Public clouds use streamable tiles when available, so the browser loads the part you are looking at instead of one huge source file.
PLY file format · Point Cloud Library
Why there are choices
There is no single perfect file for every screen, browser, and connection. Browse stays light; inspect spends more only after the page has a reason.
These details show what the page can actually load, so the controls stay honest.
