This is very amazing. Thank you very much!
Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza
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#22Incredible. Going through this gave me similar sentiments to when i first used my school library copy of Encarta 98. Question: there are some blurred out areas, how come? e.g. https://imgur.com/a/6Ca5EYG
I think it's just that the scanner doesn't look straight up.
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#23As many others have commented. My first thought was "Amazing!"
The only thing I encountered is that my mouse wheel scrolling was a bit too touchy and I kept accidentally zooming too much into a 3D scene while scrolling the text.
But that doesn't really matter, because this is amazingly cool.
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#24Incredible. Going through this gave me similar sentiments to when i first used my school library copy of Encarta 98. Question: there are some blurred out areas, how come? e.g. https://imgur.com/a/6Ca5EYG
Camera limitation – it doesn't capture a full sphere. That's exactly the spot where I also noticed it.
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#25Beautiful! Thanks for doing this work. Can you explain a bit on the process that was used to create this? How do you determine your position inside the pyramid precisely? (would make for a great dungeon-style game :)
I've used the BLK 360 before so some comment here. Essentially you scan at various points within the volume of interest, e.g. you walk around, place the scanner, scan, repeat. Each scan takes a few minutes at high angular resolution. Leica provides software called Register (or Cyclone) to match the scans together. Because you generally don't have GPS (the BLK doesn't have a GPS onboar and GPS is anyway much more inac…
Complete newbie here, but wouldn't it be possible to affix some marks on the walls to help with the stitching afterwards?
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#26This is amazing! Incredible work! Thank you for doing this project.
FYI I found a typo - the word "cuts":
> It's 750 by 750 feet at the base and is made of over 2 million large, limestone blocks cuts from the surrounding area.
Also - from one of the angles shown, it looks like there's a golf course next to the pyramids? Not at all what I expected!
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#27This is great!
I noticed a few apostrophes missing in the captions in "King's Chamber" and "Queen's Chamber".
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#28Incredible. Going through this gave me similar sentiments to when i first used my school library copy of Encarta 98. Question: there are some blurred out areas, how come? e.g. https://imgur.com/a/6Ca5EYG
Camera limitation – it doesn't capture a full sphere. That's exactly the spot where I also noticed it.
ahh, of course. thanks
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#29What is the reason that Mixpanel and GTM are on this page? Is there a specific reason that such invasive tracking is required for an educational resource that does not generate revenue?
They likely use some of the metrics to continue to get grant funding. You gave us $1m in grant money which we used to produce this webpage which has XXX millions of views. I'm sure other tools would suffice but given it's a project at Harvard, they may have institutional requirements.
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#30This was a really cool experience. Thanks for putting this together.