Funes

Modelling the world. Funes is an online museum that collects, preserves, and curates 3D models of all human constructions.

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What is Funes? Here is a short introduction video. Please share this with anyone who is interested!

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IT’S OUT 🚀

FUNES teams up with MD Clock @MDStudioHQ for a brand-new clock theme.

31 architectures. Infinite variations.

Search MD Clock on the iOS App Store and let time take shape.

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FUNES just reached 1,000 models.

A small step toward preserving the physical world.

Just the beginning.

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Happy 2026, everyone 🎉 Funes has been quietly busy: we’re ramping up our 3D model library toward 1,000 (949 right now) and iterating on the site UI. Come take a look at https://t.co/Zr0oAcNzAw.

Also… we’re secretly working on something long overdue 👀 Guess it right and I’ll tell :)

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Finally! Funes goes 3D Gaussian Splat. Check out this Kiz Castle in the water at Rize, Turkey and compare the mesh and 3dgs versions.

Water surface reflection and that atmosphere is so live.

Big thanks to @playcanvas . This won't be possible without your tools!

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Huge thanks to everyone at @yzilabs — especially @cyodyssey , @DanaBuidl and most of all @cz_binance @heyibinance — for believing in what we’re building.

Funes is just getting started:)

[YZi Labs @yzilabs]

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We tell latest stories using age-old tech as well - Funes goes both ways. And we are always proud to be a part of MegaMafia!

[Shuyao Kong @hotpot_dao]

Funes is accelerated by @megamafia cohort 1

@HanyangWang and the team are some of the best storytellers who also understand technology

Long-term builders who tell age-old stories using the latest tech

Funes is a beautiful world

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@web3melon @badlydrawnbarry take pictures around it as many as you could and send us a .zip

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In Bursa, beneath a gleaming dome clad in titanium-zinc, the Panorama 1326 Museum invites you into a 360° depiction of the city’s 1326 conquest — the moment it became the first Ottoman capital. Inside, a circular hall immerses visitors in the historic sweep from Anatolian beylik to early empire.

Opened in 2018, the building is a model of eco-conscious design and panoramic storytelling. It shifts the focus from battle alone to the foundation of a state: workshops, continuity, identity.

Funes model link: https://t.co/2OACCWtkNu

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In the quiet town of Saint-Omer in northern France, the Agglomeration Library stands in the buildings of a former English Jesuit college founded in the late 1500s for Catholic exiles. Within these limestone walls, English scholars in exile pursued forbidden ideas.

After the Revolution, the site was transformed into a public library in the early 1800s. Today its historic reading rooms house tens of thousands of old volumes, including a newly identified Shakespeare First Folio discovered in 2014.

A place once hidden now welcomes the world — a living archive of knowledge that survived exile, faith and time.

Funes model link: https://t.co/h8jTvAhgba

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In Aire-sur-la-Lys, northern France, the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter has watched the town grow for nearly a thousand years.

First a small wooden chapel, then a 12th-century church, it became the grand building we see today starting in 1492.

Its mix of Gothic arches and Renaissance details tells the story of how styles — and times — changed as it rose stone by stone.

The church has survived fires, revolutions, and wars, yet still stands beside the town’s belfry as its calm companion.

Step inside and you’ll find light pouring through high windows, old carvings and music filling the space — a quiet reminder of how beauty can outlast every century.

Funes model link: https://t.co/jWhwcp5AgC

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Couldn’t have said it better. Curiosity, travel, memory — that’s exactly why Funes exists.

Hope we meet more fellows on this journey!

[Jonathan Colón @JonathanColon]

As a kid, before wikipedia, I used to read the encyclopedia. 📚

If I don't know something, I'm always trying to learn, and from there, the rabbit hole always begins. This started at an early age for me. Always curious.

As I grew older, I was able to travel more and more. Traveling to learn about communities and cultures was something that I became obsessed with - visiting and exploring 25+ countries in my life has been a blessing.

One thing that always stood out was the architecture of wherever I would travel to. The way things were built, the reason why, the beauty; it was always so interesting and exciting for me.

As the world goes on, sadly, many structures deteriorate, are destroyed by natural disasters/wars, or are removed in order to bring in something newer.

An example of this would be the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico. Built in the 1960s, years of being battered by intense hurricanes, it collapsed in 2020. Once the largest telescope in the world, used for tons of important discoveries and research, was no more.

I remember my trips to Puerto Rico, the homeland of my family, always being excited to visit the telescope again and again. The sheer size of the structure was impressive, nothing like most people have seen before.

Puerto Ricans across the globe have always been proud of this structure, but I remember the day it collapsed and how saddened I was.

How can we preserve these human creations digitally? Is there a way that the stories of these structures can be told for the rest of time, not by just reading about them or having a quick look at a photo, but being able to explore the structure more in-depth?

When I came across @Funes_World, everything clicked for me. A digital encyclopedia of detailed 3D models featuring structures across the globe. A community where anyone can participate, all you need is a phone (at least).

I came across Funes as I was exploring the @megaeth @megamafia community. I definitely wanted to give it a try.

Last weekend, I decided to take a quick trip to Sleepy Hollow, NY in honor of the upcoming Halloween holiday. The mission: to capture the iconic Headless Horseman Statue to be uploaded to Funes. I thought it was a perfect time to upload said structure.

I went through the detailed guide on how to take enough photos for the 3D modeling to work. No drone for me, but it was rather simple. I took roughly 65 photos, uploaded them via a form from Funes along with other details about the statue.

Today, I received the news from the team that the model was complete, just in time for Halloween tomorrow! 🎃

Here is a link to the model so you can explore: https://t.co/iACV9LJGsV

It's really great that anyone can participate and upload photos to Funes. It creates a sense of global community, a sense of preservation that most us of have inside us.

It also creates opportunities for adventure - the journey to capture photos for Funes during the Halloween season was an exciting one!

You can see how passionate the team is. What they have built is impressive and important.

Funes combines so many things that I'm passionate about as well - and being able to support through my first submission felt great.

The Headless Horseman Stature was selected for today's model of the day.

I encourage all out there to give Funes a try and help document the world we live in today! 🫶

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Located in Memphis, Tennessee, Sun Studio is an iconic landmark that embodies the essence of American music history.

Founded by Sam Phillips in 1950 as the Memphis Recording Service, it later became the legendary Sun Studio, renowned as the birthplace of rock 'n' roll.

This humble studio witnessed the rise of musical legends such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and B.B. King.

Funes model link: https://t.co/H4NfclPUAD

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Beneath Sarajevo’s war-torn skyline stands a one-meter golden can of ICAR beef — a monument to irony.

During the 1,425-day siege, UN planes dropped tons of expired canned meat once meant for Vietnam. Many were pork; some dated back 20 years.

“If there’s another siege,” one survivor said, “I’d rather die than eat ICAR.” The can still gleams today — less a token of gratitude than a mirror of absurdity.

Funes model link with more detailed introduction: https://t.co/xoaynEIPoU

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Born in 1560 as Anne de Montmorency’s Renaissance dream, it later witnessed chef François Vatel’s tragic perfectionism, Molière’s laughter, and the Revolution’s fire.

Reimagined in the 19th century by the exiled Duke of Aumale, Chantilly became a sanctuary for art: Raphael’s Three Graces, the Très Riches Heures, and 17,000 volumes preserved in deliberate stillness.

Chantilly Castle of France endures—part museum, part miracle.

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Rising above Belgrade’s skyline, the Western Gate—better known as the Genex Tower—embodies a dream caught between eras.

Completed in 1980 by architect Mihajlo Mitrović, its twin concrete towers were once a triumphant welcome to a socialist city brimming with confidence and modern ideals. The rotating restaurant that once crowned it has long gone silent, one tower now filled with homes, the other largely empty but draped in massive advertisements.

The Western Gate remains a striking reminder of how architecture can outlive its ideology, standing between what was promised and what came to be.

Funes model link: https://t.co/6884riouRW

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Big update on the Funes site!

You can now download our models ✨

Just click the spot in the image to grab a free low-res OBJ version.

Want the high-res file? DM me or email [email protected]!

We’re doing this so more creators can play with it on their own terms. Just mind the CC4.0 & don’t forget to tag us—we’d love to see what you make! 💡

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For 100+ years, heritage conservation has relied on one of the hardest but most reliable tools: measured drawings.

Plans, sections, elevations, axonometric views—painstakingly recorded to capture a building’s exact form.

Measured drawings flatten 3D into 2D for transmission & survival. But they also elevate—adding scale, proportion, structure invisible to the eye. Sometimes a drawing moves us more than the ruin itself.

A photo can’t bring back a lost building. Memory can’t either. But a handful of old measured drawings? Enough to rebuild scale, detail, and balance—almost indistinguishable from the real thing.

AI image generation has exploded these last 4–5 years. But measured drawings remain its blind spot. Why? Because a drawing isn’t just 2D graphics—it’s a compressed 3D model. Without true spatial understanding, AI fakes it.

At Funes, we built a massive database of real architectural models + a growing archive of heritage drawings.

This lets our AI “touch,” “scan,” and “see through” monuments—understanding structure in full 3D.

The result is AI-generated drawings at true academic standard. No human hand needed. Proportions, details, line quality, structure—ready for archaeological reports & scholarly publications.

On our site, every building now comes with wireframes. Soon: full auto-generated measured drawings, archive-grade, at the click of a button.

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A bunch of weird Yugoslavia stuff coming!

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Igman Olympic Jumps

Perched on Mt. Igman near Sarajevo, the Igman Olympic Jumps rocketed onto the scene in 1982 to host ski-jumping and Nordic combined events at the 1984 Winter Olympics. It was the stage for Matti Nykänen’s epic 116 m leap— 90,000 people watched in awe!

Sadly, the cheers didn’t last. During the Siege of Sarajevo, these once-glorious jumps became a battleground, riddled with bullet‑holes and left to rust.

Funes model link: https://t.co/zINk0dYFQv