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Re: Pharaoh Ramesses VI Tomb

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Post by throwaway_pdp09 »

cmdshiftf4 wrote: post #11
caiobegotti wrote: post #7

It's truly impressive and jaw dropping but what's maddening to me is that what you see in there is exactly how it is in real life, i.e. the walkways are just like that and people can actually reach out and touch the walls. At least based on my visits to Luxor, very few tombs have acrylic/glass wall protections to prevent it but it's ridiculously common to see tourists in some of the tombs doing that, it's sad and rev…

>At least based on my visits to Luxor, very few tombs have acrylic/glass wall protections to prevent it but it's ridiculously common to see tourists in some of the tombs doing that I understand the sentiment, however I'm personally not in favour of modelling everything in society to account for the lowest common denominator and sterilizing everything in sight in response. The issues you mention are nothing that could…

You're still proposing to deal with the lowest common denominator, only in a different way.

Re: Pharaoh Ramesses VI Tomb

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Post by Koshkin »

cmdshiftf4 wrote: post #11
caiobegotti wrote: post #7

It's truly impressive and jaw dropping but what's maddening to me is that what you see in there is exactly how it is in real life, i.e. the walkways are just like that and people can actually reach out and touch the walls. At least based on my visits to Luxor, very few tombs have acrylic/glass wall protections to prevent it but it's ridiculously common to see tourists in some of the tombs doing that, it's sad and rev…

>At least based on my visits to Luxor, very few tombs have acrylic/glass wall protections to prevent it but it's ridiculously common to see tourists in some of the tombs doing that I understand the sentiment, however I'm personally not in favour of modelling everything in society to account for the lowest common denominator and sterilizing everything in sight in response. The issues you mention are nothing that could…

> hefty fines and enforcing

I am not sure if that's the right approach - that would be like deciding to punish animals in a zoo for crossing a line instead of having physical barriers installed.

Re: Pharaoh Ramesses VI Tomb

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Post by gorkish »

While I really respect the need to preserve these places as-is, I can't help but wonder if these AR/VR/virtual presence platforms could be a great way to give us a view into how these places may have looked when they were original and all the walls were freshly carved and painted.

This coupled with the future potential for being able to offer sythesized lightfields/holographic is ridiculously appealing to me.

Re: Pharaoh Ramesses VI Tomb

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Post by redisman »

the_af wrote: post #5
staycoolboy wrote: post #2

That's just bonkers. So much writing on the walls! I wish the navigation was a little more like a FPS and less like Myst III, but I had to keep reminding myself: this isn't some level designer from 2000's, this is an actual tomb designer vision from 5000 years ago. Just bizarre. I wonder what it would look like illuminated by torchlight.

I wonder why it isn't more like an FPS. I understand there's more modelling work involved, but it would totally rock. Imagine if advanced engines like Unreal were put to work for this kind of things instead of just for games.

Looks like its missing geometry. I don't see why you couldn't model the whole tomb but I don't think matterport supports that.

Re: Pharaoh Ramesses VI Tomb

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Post by aplummer »

Koshkin wrote: post #22
cmdshiftf4 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>At least based on my visits to Luxor, very few tombs have acrylic/glass wall protections to prevent it but it's ridiculously common to see tourists in some of the tombs doing that I understand the sentiment, however I'm personally not in favour of modelling everything in society to account for the lowest common denominator and sterilizing everything in sight in response. The issues you mention are nothing that could…

> hefty fines and enforcing I am not sure if that's the right approach - that would be like deciding to punish animals in a zoo for crossing a line instead of having physical barriers installed.

er, humans have agency to follow instruction easily in a way that animals do not.

Re: Pharaoh Ramesses VI Tomb

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Post by pkaye »

MRosenthal wrote: post #27
MRosenthal wrote: post #26

Well... Google streetview blurred lot's of houses due to request by citizens. But what happened here? https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=NeiMEZa9d93

Sorry, the link did not work as expected. You have to look straight up to see the blurred section.

Might be a blind spot in the panoramic camera.

Re: Pharaoh Ramesses VI Tomb

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Post by netsharc »

aplummer wrote: post #25
Koshkin wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> hefty fines and enforcing I am not sure if that's the right approach - that would be like deciding to punish animals in a zoo for crossing a line instead of having physical barriers installed.

er, humans have agency to follow instruction easily in a way that animals do not.

Hmm, if it's just rules/fines, the chances are 0% that no one touches the thing, because it seems like guaranteed that an idiot will one day walk in there and touch something they're not meant to touch.

So if you want to preserve it, probably barriers/distance is the only good enough protection.

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