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

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Post by goldthwait »

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.

Yes! I felt the same and I was going to write a separate comment on that before I found this conversation. I don't know how you managed to crawl(?) through all those tunnels but it just made me sick following through the guided tour. Besides this personal note, I think this is an amazing work! Very informative, the transitions are well-thought and smooth. Thank you for sharing it with us.

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Post by canadianfella »

kragen wrote: post #193
GuB-42 wrote: post #103

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That contractor must have had really big pockets...

That's what I think whenever I play Minetest. My inventory can fit 40 stacks of 99 cubic meters of stone: 3960 cubic meters, about 10000 tonnes. I guess Sam's backpack is bigger on the inside than the outside...

What is Minetest?

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

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Post by anthk »

erickhill wrote: post #188
anthk wrote: post #123

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I want the reverse. Dungeons generated a la street view for a Nethack ascii map instead of tiles. As the game it's turn based, it would be usable after all even underpowered machines.

Hah! That would be pretty interesting. I guess the inbetween would be DungeonHack... Be pretty wild to have a 3D interactive Rogue based on GeoGuessr realism.

Like Noegnud but photorealistic:

https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Noegnud

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Noegnud.jpg

With a Street View design (with overlapping monsters/object per "tile", nothing too complex for a shader), the game would be incredible nice for newcomers. And, yes, I prefer ASCII/UTF8.

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Post by thomasahle »

mortenjorck wrote: post #72

Incredible work bringing so many moving parts together to make such a seamless, immersive experience. Online museums have been an aspiration since the early days of the web, and this exhibit sets a new bar. One slight hiccup I noticed: The guided tour frequently clips through the geometry, which breaks the immersion a bit. I don't know if the Matterport SDK has any facilities for following paths rather than a straigh…

What system are you on? With Chrome 106 on a 2019 Mac Book Pro the website is completely unusable at 1 frame per 2 seconds...

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Post by alpha_squared »

hi wrote: post #122
ndr wrote: post #94

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I'm going on a tour in Luxor & other places in Egypt tomorrow. This amazing, thank you!

@ndr I was just there earlier this year and would like to recommend a guide named Mohamed [redacted] to you (and anyone else who is visiting that area) who we met there and spent two days with in Luxor (Karnak & Luxor Temple) and driving down to Aswan (via Esna, Al Sharawna, El Kab and Edfu) from Luxor. Mobile: [redacted]

I was just there a couple weeks ago and, while Mohamed is an extremely common name, chances are it was the same Mohamed that was our tour guide as well. He's honestly phenomenal and (now) a good friend who I keep in touch with regularly.

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Post by coldcode »

gigaflop wrote: post #171
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'm a tall guy, and started feeling claustrophobic when I saw what some of the tunnel entrances looked like. I never used the measurement tool to verify, but they looked like they'd have made me prefer crawling instead of crouching. Something that confirmed my suspicion: In the King's chamber, 'stand' next to the sarcophagus, and look behind you. I won't explain further.

I am not normally claustrophobic, but being tall and some of these shafts are very low, I would be unlikely to make it very far before abandoning the attempt. I am glad I saw this though, I can at least do it remotely.

How anyone did this originally and to rob the place, is amazing.

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Post by ant6n »

pencilguin wrote: post #166
Abundnce10 wrote: post #144

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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.

Properly, "box". There is no evidence a body was ever in it.

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