Tag: Mastaba

Glossy black mastaba tombs

When visualising my landscape model I make use of Autodesk Infraworks 360, a comprehensive infrastructure design suite used to create and render data-rich 3D models. With the latest release of the software I had begun to notice that structure models created in CAD were rendering as a glossy black when imported as DWG data sources…


Modelling a mastaba

Tomb 3505 – from paper-based plan to digital 3D model. When I am creating a model of a structure I generally begin with the feature plan in the excavation report or published volume. With regards to the archaic mastaba tombs at North Saqqara the published works of W.B.Emery are authoritative. In the construction of mastaba…