Reconstructing the Melilla Massacre
USE CASE
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Introduction
Organization: Lighthouse Reports
Photomatch
Base Model
Observations (likely)
- Repeating parts: a lot of repeating parts.
- Barbed wire: difficult to model by hand — likely procedural, modular, or a combination of both.
- Fences: same logic. The parts and chain links would likely be procedural, fitted into a single fence piece, then instanced (linked copy) across the scene.
- Lamp posts: same approach — linked instances of a base model placed across the scene many times.
- Building: simple geometry, with either shading errors or missing faces.
- Terrain: modeled on top of a digital elevation map (likely exported from QGIS), or modeled flat first and overlaid with the DEM afterward.
Summary
This case demonstrates terrain-from-DEM and procedural/instancing-heavy modeling — where efficiency comes from building one modular element and instancing it across the scene rather than modeling each instance by hand.