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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 qwertox »

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…

When I was in school, I visited my granddad during summer holidays. This was right before I would have history class for the first time at school, and my granddad showed me a book my dad gave him as a present, which was about the Pyramids in Egypt. I was fascinated by the book, and got to know that this is what history is about, so I got really excited.

Holiday was over, school began, first hour of history class began. New book, looked at it, I think the first two pages were on Egypt. The topic took less than a class. I felt like "Wait, we can't go on, there's so much to learn about this" and immediately got disillusioned with history class.

The site is awesome, it is what those first history classes should have been. It almost feels like you're there, thanks to the high resolution textures. And the guided tour feels so personal, as if there's someone with you at your site showing you the place. It really is a gift.

Thank you.

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

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Post by lukehollis »

tmilard wrote: post #39

It's nice. Maybe the best matterport's example I have seen so far... The 3D in the transitions [of two 360 photos] are really good and the pixel quality is great. But still... The very limited part of Matterport is that it is "mostly" a series of 360 photos. Now, because a pyramid is mainly a long corridor, you do not see too much those limitations. So great. Thierry, developper of https://free-visit.net/

I hear you--I think this is limitation is useful for bandwidth/loading time constraints.

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

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Post by yaddaor »

smusamashah wrote: post #98

You 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

That's inventing details that don't exist in the data though, correct?

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

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Post by Ensorceled »

lukehollis wrote: post #129
JofArnold wrote: post #120

Incredible. Thank you so much for that. What an incredible project and one I think will make a huge impact for years. Question. I noticed a very unusual experience I've not felt before in a 3D world; I started to feel claustrophobic - so much so I had to close the tab. I'm curious; has anyone else experienced the same do you know? If so, any ideas why it should be so powerful a feeling in this particular case?

That’s super interesting—thanks for the feedback. I’m really curious if others have felt this also.

Definitely count at least one more person experiencing claustrophobia ...

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

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Post by akiselev »

amatecha wrote: post #149

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.

It looks like I have a related failure. Latest iOS Safari with DNS level adblocking.

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

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Post by Ensorceled »

JofArnold wrote: post #120

Incredible. Thank you so much for that. What an incredible project and one I think will make a huge impact for years. Question. I noticed a very unusual experience I've not felt before in a 3D world; I started to feel claustrophobic - so much so I had to close the tab. I'm curious; has anyone else experienced the same do you know? If so, any ideas why it should be so powerful a feeling in this particular case?

I think it's the combination of "movement" and very high res pictures.

Once you start moving into the tunnel you really get the feeling you are there.

Also the rig might have been set at 6' (that's matterport's default recommendation, or at least it was) so you really feel the low ceilings.

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