Cultural Heritage

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Ad-Deir Monastery in WebGL: CyArk's Tapestry Takes You Inside Petra

CyArk's Tapestry rebuilds Petra's Ad-Deir Monastery from LiDAR and photogrammetry, then hands you the keys. A narrated seven-scene tour on a high-res textured mesh, with a free-explore mode sharing the same source of truth. Restrained engineering dressed up as a field trip.

Apr 9, 2026

Persepolis Reimagined

Media.Monks and Getty Museum built a browser-based tour through ancient Persepolis at its peak. Full-scale WebGL recreation of the Persian capital with smart optimizations: instancing, frustum culling, LOD systems. Nine months of dev work with historians to nail the details. Worth exploring.

Dec 25, 2025