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Re: Sistine Chapel

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Post by jacquesm »

gnaritas wrote: post #100
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #97

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There's a better one still IMO. It's a place of worship, you're supposed to look at the images and ponder your relationship with, and position before, the Almighty Creator. If you're messing around with your camera, or others are, then you're invariably far to distracted to meditate on higher things.

That's a terrible reason, it's a tourist attraction, not a place of worship;even if it still were many don't care about your superstitions and don't need or want your superstitions imposed upon them. We don't all walk around with delusions of a creator in our minds.

True, but 1000 flash bulbs going off every minute is also not helping to see anything at all.

Re: Sistine Chapel

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Post by coldcode »

jacquesm wrote: post #43
tormeh wrote: post #34

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There are uncovered breasts! Penises! Can't find any vulvas unfortunately. It's funny to think that they would have to censor this on American television because of the religious right. Another way to think of it: Miley Cyrus is actually more covered than many of the characters in the Sistine Chapel.

There was in those days significant opposition to the way the work was executed, which led the artist to pull some pranks on some of his most active detractors.

The back wall is full of faces that Michelangelo didn't like. I remember some guy added clothes to the painting later to try to make it less nude.

Re: Sistine Chapel

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Post by bobbles »

When I was in the Sistine Chapel a couple of years ago, someone opened that big black door at the back of the hall (between the two wooden walls).

This was not the tourist exit, and inside there were huge beautiful golden hallways with exquisite paintings all around.

Does anyone know if this part of the chapel is visible or recorded anywhere?

Re: Sistine Chapel

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Post by srean »

iterationx wrote: post #22
Swizec wrote: post #17

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There's a line from a great Robin Williams movie where he talks about life to a gifted kid "I bet you can tell me every little detail about the Sistine Chapel, but you can't tell me what it smells like." It smells like sweaty humans being herded through like cattle as quickly as possible.

Also your neck is not meant to really look up for very long periods of time.

Upvoted. I just imagined Michaelangelo giving you a knowing nod of agreement. Not the most ergonomic surface to paint on.

Re: Sistine Chapel

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Post by gnaritas »

jacquesm wrote: post #101
gnaritas wrote: post #100

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That's a terrible reason, it's a tourist attraction, not a place of worship;even if it still were many don't care about your superstitions and don't need or want your superstitions imposed upon them. We don't all walk around with delusions of a creator in our minds.

True, but 1000 flash bulbs going off every minute is also not helping to see anything at all.

Never said it was.

Re: Sistine Chapel

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Post by AJ007 »

JunkDNA wrote: post #49

This is one of those cases where (having not used one) I sincerely hope the Oculus Rift can bring something more to the experience compared to what we have now. What you can't get from your computer screen is the scale of it all. You can intellectually get it by looking around at reference points in the image, but you can't feel it the way you can when you are there. This would be especially true if one had a similar…

The software running this Sistine Chapel panorama supports the Rift: http://krpano.com/stereo3d/#top

You just need to take a two image panorama photo to begin with.

I've seen a few 3D 360 videos in my Oculus Rift. There is little doubt that in the future instead of shooting 2D photos we will be capture 3D 360 degree video with geometry data. Imagine strapping on the headset and seeing yourself as a toddler taking your first steps. Pretty wild stuff.

Re: Sistine Chapel

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Post by sitkack »

walden42 wrote: post #78
Locke1689 wrote: post #13

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Having tried the Oculus Rift, the potential to experience this would be incredible. Although there's nothing quite like just sitting on a worn stone bench alone in a cathedral, just the chill air around you. It often makes me wish for a non-religious religion -- just a refuge of tranquility.

> It often makes me wish for a non-religious religion -- just a refuge of tranquility. Have you looked into Buddhism yet? Because that's exactly one of the ways I'd describe it--a non-religion whose focus is on tranquility. If you haven't looked into yet, this is a great easy-to-read book to start with: http://www.amazon.com/Peace-Every-Step-Mindfulness-Everyday/...

Or something you can attend, http://afsc.org/ with people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quakers are the closest thing we have to Buddhism in the Americas.

Re: Sistine Chapel

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Post by cflee »

araes wrote: post #71

Anyone have the technical info on how this was done and put together? Looking at other pages, it appears this was created by Villanova University in Pennsylvania ( http://www1.villanova.edu/main.html ) for the Vatican, and they appear to have several folks actively publishing in photogrammetry journals. It looks like it was done with some very high quality photogrammetry ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogrammetry…

For those who haven't found the other pages: there are a total of 8 basilicas and chapels that have been rendered in this fashion.

http://www.vatican.va/various/basiliche/index_en.html (English page)

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