Free photogrammetry (scanned) 3D models for three.js (GLB, CC BY and CC0)
24 free photogrammetry scans for three.js from the 2,879 in the paprika3d asset library (CC BY and CC0), as meshopt GLB files: each with its author, license, credit line, triangles and file size, and the asset_search call that fetches it.
What the library holds
The paprika3d asset library holds 2,879 photogrammetry scans among its 57,732 models. 2,672 of them are licensed CC BY 4.0, which asks you to credit the author wherever you use the model, and 207 are CC0, which asks nothing. 1 are AI-generated, from Scenario's 3D Collection, and say so on their card.
2,761 of the 2,879 pass the library's quality checks: textured (or drawn in vertex colours, for a low-poly or voxel model), not flat, at most 15 MB, with a name, a description and a real-world height. Among those, the median model has 61,200 triangles, with the middle half between 25,900 and 117,100, and the median file is 0.56 MB, with nine in ten at most 1.4 MB. The median one stands 0.25 m tall at real size. 1 carry a texture of 2048 px, the library's largest; the rest are smaller. 17 are animated and 13 rigged. The most common styles are scanned (2,761).
Photogrammetry scans in a three.js scene
Photogrammetry scans are dense: the median model has 61,200 triangles and the upper quarter over 117,100. Before a scene holds several, run model_audit on the folder, and use its shrink to cap textures for distant ones. A page with many scans is worth a perf run on the budget it targets.
A scan's colour texture already contains the light of the place it was captured in, shadows and all. Lit by strong lights in three.js, it gets lit twice. Use soft light: an environment map at modest intensity and little or no direct light, or MeshBasicMaterial for a scan that should look exactly as captured.
Raycaster checks each triangle, so picking a dense scan is slow; test against a box or a simpler mesh instead. 207 of these are CC0, many from museums, and the median scan is 0.25 m tall.
Fetch one and load it
With the paprika3d plugin in Claude Code, or its MCP server in any other agent, the agent searches the library in words or picks a model by the id on its card. pick downloads the file into the project's assets/ folder (public/assets/ under vite), adds the credit line to assets/CREDITS.md and answers with the code that loads it at real size. Give cwd, the project folder, as with every paprika3d tool.
asset_search {"query": "photogrammetry scan", "cwd": "."}
asset_search {"pick": "3f5afc34f74c40b28a072a46281b6321", "cwd": "."}
Every file is a binary glTF (.glb) compressed with meshopt, so GLTFLoader needs the meshopt decoder that ships with three.js. The origin sits at the bottom centre of each model, so it stands on the floor where you place it:
import * as THREE from 'three';
import { GLTFLoader } from 'three/addons/loaders/GLTFLoader.js';
import { MeshoptDecoder } from 'three/addons/libs/meshopt_decoder.module.js';
const loader = new GLTFLoader().setMeshoptDecoder(MeshoptDecoder);
const gltf = await loader.loadAsync('assets/corinthian-pillar-pedestal-3f5afc.glb');
scene.add(gltf.scene);
24 photogrammetry scans to start from
Chosen from the 2,761 that pass the checks: the ones agents picked most through asset_search first, then the ones whose name says what they are, then lighter files, with at most 2 per author. Each CC BY card ends with its credit line: paste it into your credits, as the license requires.
Corinthian Pillar Pedestal by Austin Beaulier
CC BY 4.0 · 75,220 triangles · 0.763 MB · scanned · 0.6 m tallasset_search {"pick": "3f5afc34f74c40b28a072a46281b6321"}
Credit: "Corinthian Pillar Pedestal" by Austin Beaulier (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/3f5afc34f74c40b28a072a46281b6321) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Optimized for the web by paprika3D.
Edinburgh, 2-12 Cowgate by Daniel Muirhead
CC BY 4.0 · 82,745 triangles · 0.703 MB · scanned · 15 m tallasset_search {"pick": "095b3d5deada4bb5892289227daf8808"}
Credit: "Edinburgh, 2-12 Cowgate" by Daniel Muirhead (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/095b3d5deada4bb5892289227daf8808) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Optimized for the web by paprika3D.
Peony Scan by jeanniehuang
CC BY 4.0 · 80,156 triangles · 0.547 MB · scanned · 0.15 m tallasset_search {"pick": "7141040d03dd47be862414f1e4e23709"}
Credit: "Peony Scan" by jeanniehuang (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/7141040d03dd47be862414f1e4e23709) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Optimized for the web by paprika3D.
Trash bags scan by daftvid
CC BY 4.0 · 68,765 triangles · 0.634 MB · scanned · 0.8 m tallasset_search {"pick": "47f19fd492fc4707bf3222c697dcbaca"}
Credit: "Trash bags scan" by daftvid (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/47f19fd492fc4707bf3222c697dcbaca) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Optimized for the web by paprika3D.
Traffic Cone by Mikko Haapoja
CC BY 4.0 · 6,626 triangles · 0.098 MB · scanned · 0.75 m tallasset_search {"pick": "f28523a0b7684d6c8972e8a853394708"}
Credit: "Traffic Cone" by Mikko Haapoja (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/f28523a0b7684d6c8972e8a853394708) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Optimized for the web by paprika3D.
Final project: Coral skeleton by ClementCosson
CC BY 4.0 · 37,975 triangles · 0.308 MB · scanned · 0.1 m tallasset_search {"pick": "5568e95c3d18450c93f8f8c8c7114741"}
Credit: "Final project: Coral skeleton" by ClementCosson (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/5568e95c3d18450c93f8f8c8c7114741) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Optimized for the web by paprika3D.
Bol getic by Institutul Național al Patrimoniului
CC BY 4.0 · 4,634 triangles · 0.115 MB · scanned · 0.3 m tallasset_search {"pick": "2598112210454953a6a983e861594420"}
Credit: "Bol getic" by Institutul Național al Patrimoniului (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/2598112210454953a6a983e861594420) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Optimized for the web by paprika3D.
Garlic by Reductio
CC BY 4.0 · 24,688 triangles · 0.31 MB · scanned · 0.06 m tallasset_search {"pick": "10dc2660dcdb482a88b46d3ca72d50c3"}
Credit: "Garlic" by Reductio (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/10dc2660dcdb482a88b46d3ca72d50c3) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Optimized for the web by paprika3D.
Cauliflower by ruda5
CC BY 4.0 · 83,509 triangles · 0.595 MB · scanned · 0.2 m tallasset_search {"pick": "d2ba8154fb1a4303928d657beeb2b8f2"}
Credit: "Cauliflower" by ruda5 (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/d2ba8154fb1a4303928d657beeb2b8f2) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Optimized for the web by paprika3D.
Tchaikovsky Rose 20220510 by Akiko_NAKAMURA
CC BY 4.0 · 17,434 triangles · 0.241 MB · scanned · 0.3 m tallasset_search {"pick": "48ed9064870c4f339b7d708d72641b04"}
Credit: "Tchaikovsky Rose 20220510" by Akiko_NAKAMURA (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/48ed9064870c4f339b7d708d72641b04) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Optimized for the web by paprika3D.
Sarcophagus - Vatican Museums by thena
CC BY 4.0 · 280,658 triangles · 4.516 MB · scanned · 1 m tallasset_search {"pick": "209090fdec1549ecb074fc620049f0d4"}
Credit: "Sarcophagus - Vatican Museums" by thena (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/209090fdec1549ecb074fc620049f0d4) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Optimized for the web by paprika3D.
Rose Scan by Bandit
CC BY 4.0 · 293,301 triangles · 2.708 MB · scanned · 0.3 m tallasset_search {"pick": "48bc8f9448184489807301064d5dd538"}
Credit: "Rose Scan" by Bandit (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/48bc8f9448184489807301064d5dd538) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Optimized for the web by paprika3D.
Dena by GRAP
CC BY 4.0 · 149,231 triangles · 0.923 MB · scanned · 0.3 m tallasset_search {"pick": "705994fad424435c8e35d8b22ba03ccf"}
Credit: "Dena" by GRAP (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/705994fad424435c8e35d8b22ba03ccf) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Optimized for the web by paprika3D.
縄文中期後葉初台付鉢形土器（塩尻市上木戸遺跡）外2点S5 観察記録3Dモデル by arakiminoru
CC BY 4.0 · 78,258 triangles · 0.762 MB · scanned · 0.4 m tallasset_search {"pick": "f0b86219081846b2a58fb2ed410ad024"}
Credit: "縄文中期後葉初台付鉢形土器（塩尻市上木戸遺跡）外2点S5 観察記録3Dモデル" by arakiminoru (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/f0b86219081846b2a58fb2ed410ad024) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Optimized for the web by paprika3D.
Play-Doh Penguin by jamieirvin
CC BY 4.0 · 36,186 triangles · 0.313 MB · scanned · 0.12 m tallasset_search {"pick": "fff744bef741439f9518cfd4daafe725"}
Credit: "Play-Doh Penguin" by jamieirvin (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/fff744bef741439f9518cfd4daafe725) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Optimized for the web by paprika3D.
Snowman doll by xinige
CC BY 4.0 · 39,533 triangles · 0.284 MB · scanned · 0.5 m tallasset_search {"pick": "d0e07b22f1d54b968943e7a896235a65"}
Credit: "Snowman doll" by xinige (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/d0e07b22f1d54b968943e7a896235a65) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Optimized for the web by paprika3D.
Nefertiti by Francesco Coldesina
CC BY 4.0 · 19,784 triangles · 0.262 MB · scanned · 0.5 m tallasset_search {"pick": "c2f7a55a51fa495eb1d284c0fb8fdcee"}
Credit: "Nefertiti" by Francesco Coldesina (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/c2f7a55a51fa495eb1d284c0fb8fdcee) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Optimized for the web by paprika3D.
You Wine Vessel, 12th-11th Century BCE by Minneapolis Institute of Art
CC0 · 63,472 triangles · 0.63 MB · scanned · 0.3 m tallasset_search {"pick": "26cc83b19125487eb95528092dcd93aa"}
CC0, no credit needed. Optional credit: "You Wine Vessel, 12th-11th Century BCE" by Minneapolis Institute of Art (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/26cc83b19125487eb95528092dcd93aa) is licensed under CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Optimized for the web by paprika3D.
![Custard Apple [PhotoScan]](https://paprika3d.com/media/assets/0da7a740994e47418e6bec9010fbca0a.webp)
Custard Apple [PhotoScan] by Thomas Flynn
CC BY 4.0 · 22,698 triangles · 0.185 MB · scanned · 0.1 m tallasset_search {"pick": "0da7a740994e47418e6bec9010fbca0a"}
Credit: "Custard Apple [PhotoScan]" by Thomas Flynn (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/0da7a740994e47418e6bec9010fbca0a) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Optimized for the web by paprika3D.
Moai Tangata by Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile
CC0 · 95,010 triangles · 0.707 MB · scanned · 0.5 m tallasset_search {"pick": "010c4866d8ad40ee975e6f123320b69c"}
CC0, no credit needed. Optional credit: "Moai Tangata" by Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/010c4866d8ad40ee975e6f123320b69c) is licensed under CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Optimized for the web by paprika3D.
Crock-A-Gator by Billyshredd
CC BY 4.0 · 83,192 triangles · 0.893 MB · scanned · 0.3 m tallasset_search {"pick": "5c7a9f79ba4b490d9e9d5e734fbc920c"}
Credit: "Crock-A-Gator" by Billyshredd (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/5c7a9f79ba4b490d9e9d5e734fbc920c) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Optimized for the web by paprika3D.
Rhinoceros by Lassi Kaukonen
CC BY 4.0 · 23,518 triangles · 0.44 MB · scanned · 1.7 m tallasset_search {"pick": "b2f0a16456f94396a95be267b05b6d28"}
Credit: "Rhinoceros" by Lassi Kaukonen (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/b2f0a16456f94396a95be267b05b6d28) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Optimized for the web by paprika3D.
Medizinrat by kulturschokolade.org
CC BY 4.0 · 69,444 triangles · 0.594 MB · scanned · 1.2 m tallasset_search {"pick": "512f03c5f83746d082e2965ae46605ff"}
Credit: "Medizinrat" by kulturschokolade.org (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/512f03c5f83746d082e2965ae46605ff) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Optimized for the web by paprika3D.
Ding food vessel, 11th-10th century BCE by Minneapolis Institute of Art
CC0 · 61,832 triangles · 0.76 MB · scanned · 0.25 m tallasset_search {"pick": "6d3936d74ab942d48e9ddb985182eeea"}
CC0, no credit needed. Optional credit: "Ding food vessel, 11th-10th century BCE" by Minneapolis Institute of Art (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/6d3936d74ab942d48e9ddb985182eeea) is licensed under CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Optimized for the web by paprika3D.
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Counts from the library's catalog on 2026-10-28. The models are their authors' work under the license on each card; paprika3d converted them for the web.