Aphrodite Underwater: a statue recovered from underwater ruins off the coast of Alexandria, part of the submerged Ptolemaic-era city

Study

of Form

How this record was made

21 raw images (photographed through its museum display case, gravity-only pose priors, no full ARKit pose data for this session) processed into a full 360° watertight mesh with Apple's PhotogrammetrySession (RealityKit) at raw detail (100k+ faces), cleaned up (self-intersecting faces fixed, holes closed) and texture-compressed to 4096px JPEG at high quality for the web. Replaces an earlier untextured, geometry-only version.

Photographed through the glass of its case, and that session recorded no full camera-position data, so the alignment rests on the images alone. The draped surface still resolves cleanly.

21
raw images
4096px
texture

Press Wireframe on the exhibit above to see every triangle the capture produced.

  1. Captured
  2. Mesh
  3. Textured
  4. Released