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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

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Post by mwint »

kridsdale2 wrote: post #100
LeifCarrotson wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I wonder… would a nuclear attack wipe out the pyramids? Not one directly on them, but centered on the nearby city?

Re: Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza

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Post by yamtaddle »

ugh123 wrote: post #112

>"The ancient historians, like Herodotos, that recorded Khufu, mention that he was a fierce and stern ruler." >"These accounts are from over 2,000 years after Khufu lived, however, so we might not be able to believe them." I thought that second sentence was an unnecessary take.

A lot of readers probably don't have a rough idea of how old many of the major Ancient Egyptian monumental works were by the time the Greek Classical period began and we started getting a substantial amount of surviving Western literature outside monumental inscriptions and tax records and stuff like that.

Re: Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza

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Post by Abundnce10 »

lukehollis wrote: post #71

Thanks 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 loved the tour! You did an amazing job.

I thought I should pass along that I found a misspelling. You wrote "sarcophaus" instead of "sarcophagus" in the text within the King's Chamber.

Re: Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza

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Post by lukehollis »

kovek wrote: post #97

I 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.

Thanks for the feedback--and I'll test and try to replicate.

Re: Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza

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Post by lukehollis »

nimrody wrote: post #10

Beautiful! 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 :)

Thanks for visiting! I'll put together a blog post, but it was similar to the process in my previous work here: https://blog.mused.org/digitizing-luxor-temple-a-virtual-fie...

Similar except I captured with Matterport Capture and then downloaded and aligned data captured with BLK after in Cyclone so that we'd have both sets.

Re: Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza

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Post by Razengan »

nosianu wrote: post #137
alberth wrote: post #127

My takeaways: - From the entrance, all the way to the Grand Gallery ... it doesn't not feel like that was an intended entrance path. It gives the vibe of an auxiliary tunnel (not main path). - It's extremely "industrial". For what historians claim to be a monument, there's not a single hieroglyphic that I saw. It was the opposite of being ornate or lavish. - There's numerous deep groves intended to guide something la…

> it doesn't not feel like that was an intended entrance path The accompanying text says the entrance was made by robbers forcefully breaking through some random section because they did not find the true entrance. So they dug until they hit the existing tunnels.

Damn even after thousands of years the pyramids keep getting interesting!

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Post by amatecha »

Clicking "Explore" button does nothing for me -- what is it supposed to do?

When I load the page I can see the following JS error in the console:

Uncaught TypeError: o is undefined AbstractPlugin.js:12

Running Firefox latest Win10, "strict" Browser Privacy settings.

Re: Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza

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Post by lukehollis »

Abundnce10 wrote: post #144
lukehollis wrote: post #71

Thanks 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 loved the tour! You did an amazing job. I thought I should pass along that I found a misspelling. You wrote "sarcophaus" instead of "sarcophagus" in the text within the King's Chamber.

Thanks for pointing this out!
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