This is the same starfish. A texture map is the image the software generates to wrap around a 3D model: the animal’s skin cut into pieces and laid flat in an order that suits the machine, not the eye. Everything the clear print lacks is here. It holds the information needed to make the object look real, and it looks nothing like the object.
Photogrammetry set-up in museum storage: a turntable and suspension stand among the mollusc collection