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

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Post by kragen »

codetrotter wrote: post #220
canadianfella wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is Minetest?

Minetest is an open source voxel game engine. Fundamentally it is very similar to Minecraft. https://www.minetest.net/

Relevantly, not only can you build 3-D models of pyramids in it, there's even a mod for it that generates them at random: https://content.minetest.net/packages/Wuzzy/tsm_pyramids/

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Post by herdymerzbow »

Amazing stuff. Very immersive. Didn't think I would ever get to see inside the pyramids and while this isn't quite like being there in person, it does help scratch the itch. Your tour gives a much greater sense of their scale due to the length of the tunnels you have to navigate.

Meanwhile I have seen them from the air while flying from Dubai to Europe. We flew over Cairo and I managed to spot them, which I was very pleased about and began my first step into unconventional ways of appreciating the pyramids.

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Post by sdbrady »

mwidell wrote: post #216

Wow! After going through this tour, I feel like I don't need to visit in real life. I can imagine an "IRL" tour wouldn't be as good, with queues, lots of other tourists, etc. This was the best virtual visit experience I have ever had, to any real world place. Kudos!

Having been inside earlier this year, you would be doing yourself a huge disservice not visiting this IRL. Yes, the visual fidelity of this is amazing, but there are a lot of intangibles missing (i.e., the sonic resonance).

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Post by antman »

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…

Ok the pyramids are great, but it really doesn't compare with the fantastic job you've done on Luxor. I spent a whole day there, I think I will spent a couple more with this now. If this is compatible with Quest glasses I will buy them...

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Post by TeeMassive »

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…

Do you use photogrametry or do you use professional 3D scanners?

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Post by ridgeguy »

Thank you so much for your work! I loaded your tour of the Great Pyramid onto my laptop and settled into bed next to my wife, who is recovering from knee replacement surgery. I said "May I take you to Egypt for awhile?". She loved it! I really appreciate the effort you've put into giving access to historically important sites fir those of us who are unlikely to visit in person.

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Post by jaza »

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.

It quacks like a sarcophagus.

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Post by elktea »

LiamPa wrote: post #161
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’s a power station, have a read of ‘The Giza Power Plant’

I enjoy reading far out theories like these. I recently[1] saw one that claimed all the weird tunnels that terminate just short of the outside resemble wave guides, the big tunnel with the grooves was a low pass filter and the whole structure was basically a giant antenna

Any electrical engineers around feel like modelling it seeing how true it is?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb0zGX2gJIY

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