This is my 3D model of a stone tablet. I created it using photographs from the British Museum dataset. At first, I tried uploading all of the photos in sequential order. The entire file contained over 700 images and resulted in very long loading times when building the model and texturing in Metashape. Once it was fully textured, the original project looked fantastic! However, due to the size of the file, it was too large to upload to SketchFab or even embed within WordPress. I tried everything to try and reduce the size of the GLB from 400mb to under 100mb. But I had no luck after several downscales of the lighting and textures in Blender. I eventually just went ahead and hand-picked 80 images of the tablet and re-created a new model in Metashape. This time around was much faster, and although I definitely reduced the amount of tie-points still came out complete. Once the new model was complete, I exported it from Blender from obj to GLB. Then I was able to publish it to Sketchfab and embed it on this website. I decided to keep the presentation very simple since I didn’t want my model or writing to get overwhelmed by unused links and a cluttered page setup. I enjoyed trying to find the best way to model the images in the dataset in an accurate way, without having too much bloat in my exported GLB file. I chose to do this project because I think it is the quintessential application of digital humanities. Taking static photos and creating an interactive model that allows people to view an object from every angle makes it much easier to be engaged. Projects like this ignite curiosity because you can inspect objects without having to toil over 700 images and flipping back and forth between them. My end goal was to create something that was both accessible and not too large that I couldn’t embed, but also detailed enough to make a visualization of the image data I was given.