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Octa Models creates realistic environments of real places: the foundational ground on which any operation on Earth is planned, built and run. Here are its news, and everything a journalist needs to write about it.

The press kit · 7.4 MB · the release, the fact sheet, the descriptions, 20 pictures and the logos

The film · Barcelona

The ground of every operation

Barcelona, built from the rock up in Octa Models: the land rising from the authorities’ own LiDAR, every building one click away, the forests switched on, the Besòs flowing to the sea, the air rising over the warm city, every equation shown — a summer day going down behind Collserola as the full moon rises, and every star above the land.

Barcelona at dawn in Octa Models
LiDAR, aerial photo, geological map: ICGC (CC BY 4.0) · buildings: D. G. del Catastro · air: ERA5 (Copernicus) · rivers: OpenStreetMap, HydroSHEDS · music and voice: original, made for Octa ModelsBarcelona · 57 s · narrated · filmed in the engine at 3840 × 2160
The 30-second cut: Barcelona with Google Photoreal
The 30-second cut · with Google Photoreal

The same city in thirty seconds, ending in Google’s photographed 3D city streamed live into the octagon, down to the Sagrada Família.

For promotional purposes only · 3D city: Google Maps Photorealistic 3D Tiles © Google, shown live in Octa Models with Google’s own attribution

02In short

About Octa Models, ready to quote

Tagline · The Ground of Every Operation  ·  What it is · Realistic environments of Planet Earth and Beyond

Short · about 90 words

Octa Models creates realistic environments of real places: the foundational ground on which any operation on Earth is planned, built and run. It models the ecological forces that weigh on every decision — the rock and soil, the water, the air and the sky — on one octagon of real ground, from 1 to 300 km across, anywhere on Earth, from the authorities’ own data, in 2D and 3D. Every value names its source; where none exists, it shows a dash, not a guess. Octa Models is a fruit of Octa Intelligence, a Seed of the incubator Octa HQ.

Long · about 250 words

Octa Models creates realistic environments of real places: the foundational ground on which any operation on Earth is planned, built and run. Every operation answers to the forces of its place — the rock and soil beneath it, the water moving through it, the air and climate around it, the sun above it — and these ecological forces weigh more on a decision than any plan. Octa Models builds them on one octagon of real ground, from 1 to 300 km across, anywhere on Earth, and opens it in 2D and 3D, as tables and as cards. Each model is a storey of the same ground — Ground, Water, Air and Sky — under one clock and one light, and every tab opens with the plain question it answers.

What is known about a place sits with dozens of agencies, in different formats and scales. Octa Models reads them — the country’s own authority first — and puts their answers on the same ground. Every value names its source and how it is known; every equation is shown with its published reference. Where no source exists, the model says so and shows a dash, never another place’s numbers.

Octa Models runs on Octa Intelligence, the contextual and spatial intelligence Seed of Octa HQ, an incubator that develops the methodology, services and tools for regenerative, cooperative and sovereign enterprise. Its work began in 2004; the Beta of the global Ecological model opened in 2026, and the Biological model of cultures is in development.

03Fast facts

The facts, at a glance

NameOcta Models
TaglineThe Ground of Every Operation
What it isRealistic environments of Planet Earth and Beyond
FamilyA fruit of Octa Intelligence · Octa HQ, the incubator
The placeAn octagon of ground, 1 to 300 km across, anywhere on Earth
Open todayThe Ecological models — Ground, Water, Air and Sky (Beta, 2026)
In developmentThe Biological model of cultures: human, animal, plant, aquatic, insect, algae, fungi and bacteria
Ahead · 2027Corridors, connectivity and hotspots; the Economic aspect
How it is seen2D map, 3D block, tables and cards; every equation in ∑ Math
Aerial photographThe country’s own aerial photo on the 3D ground — 25 cm a pixel at Breda (ICGC, 2025)
3D buildingsEvery building from the national cadastre, at its true height from the LiDAR — 15,998 at Breda
Bring your ownThe client’s own layers by file, and live readings by API
Ask OctaClaude inside the model: ask about your place in plain words
How it is paidModelling once, then a monthly subscription for the model and its data
Show placeBreda–Montseny, Catalonia, Spain
Since2004 — more than twenty years of work, many hands (the story)
LanguageEnglish
By the numbers

The four models open today, as the engine counts them.

4models open today
29tabs, each one plain question
278equations, each shown
206published references
42named data sources
11links between the models, checked at every build
Accuracy, measured at Breda–Montseny
0.45 ma pixel at the closest view, from Catalonia’s own LiDAR survey (ICGC, flown 2021–2023)
4.7 mhow far the free world elevation model (Copernicus, 90 m) typically sits from Breda’s true ground — the model reads the national survey instead
1.0 mhow far the aerial photo sits, on average, from the LiDAR’s own ground at Breda (four 2 km squares; never more than 1.6 m)
0.15°from NASA JPL’s ephemeris for the sun, on average over every daylight hour of 2024; never more than 0.22°
04Images

Real screens, from the live engine

Every picture is the model itself at the show place, Breda–Montseny — never a mock-up. Click a picture to download it at full size, or take them all in the press kit. Credit: “Image: Octa Models”.

05Logos · using our brand

The fruit mark and its lock-up

The octagon of the eight aspects drawn as its border — Octa Models is a fruit of Octa Intelligence. The words are outlined in every file, so they look the same on any computer.

The eight colours of the mark

Clockwise from the top edge. Night #121319 and cream #F2F0E9 around them.

Using the name, the logo and the images
  • Write the name as two words: Octa Models.
  • Use the logo files as they are — never redraw, recolour, stretch or add effects to the mark.
  • Credit images “Image: Octa Models”. Pictures showing the aerial photograph also carry: “Aerial photo: Ortofoto de Catalunya 25 cm (2025) © ICGC, CC BY 4.0”, and those showing the 3D buildings: “Buildings: © Dirección General del Catastro; heights from ICGC LiDAR”.
  • The images are for editorial coverage of Octa Models. Ask before any other use.
  • Figures are from the live engine and the demo place. Please quote them with their source.
  • Typefaces: Newsreader for names and titles, Plus Jakarta Sans for explaining, IBM Plex Mono for labels and figures — all three free Google Fonts.
06Press contact