Mind blowing. Really well done!
Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza
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Re: Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza
#92If we wanted to build a monument today that would last 4000+ years, how would we do it? Is a large pile of carefully placed rocks still one of the best ways?
Here is one called the 10,000 year clock that is currently under construction (by Jeff Bezos). You can read about it here: https://www.10000yearclock.net/learnmore.html
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#93Very cool. I wish there was a 2D "dungeon crawler" map overlay of some kind so I could see where I am and what direction I'm facing as I progress into the structure. I start to lose my bearings.
I was fortunate to go inside the pyramid as a child in 1980 when I was 9. I remember it feeling quite claustrophobic at the time, and I wasn't exactly big. Once inside you quickly lose the scale of the thing (or at least I did).
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#94Thanks for the feedback! Didn't know if people would like this. If this is interesting, and you'd like to learn more about Ancient Egypt, here are a few more sites that I've worked at: Luxor Temple: https://luxortemple.mused.org/en/guided/178/luxor-temple Tomb of Queen Meresankh III at Giza: https://giza.mused.org/en/guided/4/tomb-of-queen-meresankh-i... I've mostly been working around the Mediterranean, Central Amer…
I'm going on a tour in Luxor & other places in Egypt tomorrow. This amazing, thank you!
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#95If we wanted to build a monument today that would last 4000+ years, how would we do it? Is a large pile of carefully placed rocks still one of the best ways?
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#96If you liked this, you may be interested in the Monte Albán Virtual Reality Laboratory (MAVRL) project. (https://montealban.oucreate.com/virtual-reality-2/). The site was scanned and put in Unity, allowing them to experiment with different positions of the sun, etc.
From the site:
In the summer of 2017, a DJI Phantom 4 Pro+ drone was used to take over 15,000 photos of the Main Plaza of Monte Albán. These photos were processed using Agisoft PhotoScan Professional software to digitally reconstruct the Main Plaza and surrounding Architecture producing a photorealistic 3D representation, and other highly accurate maps for archaeological study. A year later, Dr. Alex Elvis Badillo and Dr. Marc N. Levine developed the project MARVL to push the digital data captured in 2017 further beyond mere maps and 3D renderings.
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#97I really like the tool. However, I just hit an issue... Somehow, I was dragging in the view, and it did a text select on the whole view. Now, everything is highlighted blue as if I selected it, and I don't know how to de-select it.
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#98You should try processing your photo dataset with a NERF based tool. They are much better at rebuilding the 3D structure from set of images.
EDIT: There is this for example https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there any non invasive way to see the interior of the chamber? I hope we are aren't gonna leave it be.
To whom do you refer to with "we"? I hope we leave it be until we develop the tech to measure it non-invasively. The tech available to Napoleon's Egyptologists or the British in the 1800s would not have allowed him to do it. They would have picked up anything they could carry and brought it back to Room 4 in the British Museum. Our tech in 2022 does not currently allow us to see the interior of the chamber more preci…
By "we", I meant society and the authorities/academics who are researching this.
I don't there is a way in there without some amount of drilling. I was personally thinking of a fibre optic camera that could be somehow sent in there but there would be still some kind of damage caused to the Pyramid, though I am no expert on this topic at all.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there any non invasive way to see the interior of the chamber? I hope we are aren't gonna leave it be.
To whom do you refer to with "we"? I hope we leave it be until we develop the tech to measure it non-invasively. The tech available to Napoleon's Egyptologists or the British in the 1800s would not have allowed him to do it. They would have picked up anything they could carry and brought it back to Room 4 in the British Museum. Our tech in 2022 does not currently allow us to see the interior of the chamber more preci…
In a few hundred years geopolitical balances could be wildly different than today: Egypt could somehow come to dominate as a new global empire with Cairo as it's capital, opening it to the vulnerability of a nuclear attack, removing the pyramids before we ever get to develop the scanning technology.