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24 alternatives to I 3D scanned the tunnels inside the Maya Pyramid Temples at Copan

With these 3d captures, you can explore the 4km tunnel system that archaeologists created inside the temples at Copan that are closed to the public. The tunnels are often flooded by hurricanes and damaged by other natural forces--and collapsed on me and my Matterport scanner more than once--so this is a permanent record of how they appeared in 2022-23. Unlike Egyptian pyramids, the Maya built their temples layer by layer outward, so to understand them, researchers tunneled into the structures to understand the earlier phases of construction. I arranged the guided versions of the virtual…

This project offers 3D virtual tours of a 4-kilometer tunnel system inside Maya pyramid temples at Copan, Honduras, which are normally closed to the public. The tunnels, created by archaeologists to study the temples'… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. I 3D scanned the tunnels inside the Maya Pyramid Temples at Copan launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hey HN, I 3d scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid / Khufu's pyramid for the Giza Project this summer and just finished the guided version to share. Would love feedback and/or problems you encounter. I used both a Leica BLK 360 and Matterport Pro 2 to do the scanning and the Matterport SDK for the web viewer. Matterport's web display with Three.js has been the most accessible to a wide audience in the past (previous iterations are in Unity and Unreal, but difficult to download over slower connections). I've been interviewing social studies teachers around the 6th grade level to…

    2022 · giza.mused.org · its alternatives →

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    Hey all, I’m coding up a new tour system for my 3d Egyptian work. After the last feedback, I focused on building more interactive content and fx into the guided tours with sound and telling the mythology in the wall art. I’d love feedback with the new version – this is built with vanilla Three.js and footage captured on my iPhone 12. For various fx, I coded many of my own shaders based on work by https://twitter.com/akella and others on ShaderToy, so I’m keen to test on more devices. As the hacker, so the (ancient) painter.

    2023 · mused.org · its alternatives →

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    I 3d scanned the Tomb of Nefertari and am building this guided virtual tour, trying to bring in photogrammetry of artifacts that I've made at various museums. It crashes sometimes still on mobile devices. I wasn't able to take photogrammetry photos of the artifacts from the tomb in the Museo Egizio in Turin because they were traveling while I was there (and now the museum is closed to install a new roof anyhow), so I tried to include comparanda from other museums where I had scanned artifacts. I tested the same dataset with 3d Gaussian Splatting but that had lower resolution results for…

    2024 · mused.com · its alternatives →

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    The Interactive 3D Encyclopedia

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    3D illustration constructor with 380+ isometric objects

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    Features include: - Several preset periodic orbits: the classic Figure-8, plus newly discovered 3D solutions from Li and Liao's recent database of 10,000+ orbits (https://arxiv.org/html/2508.08568v1) - Full 3D camera controls (rotate/pan/zoom) with body-following mode - Force and velocity vector visualization - Timeline scrubbing to explore the full orbital period The 3D presets are particularly interesting. Try "O₂(1.2)" or "Piano O₆(0.6)" from the Load Presets menu to see configurations where bodies weave in and out of the orbital plane. Most browser…

    Nov 2025 · trisolarchaos.com · its alternatives →

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    Explore your project as an immersive 3D ocean

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    An interactive 3D museum of art history. Zoom through more than a thousand years of periods and artists, then walk first-person galleries of their real paintings — all drawn from Wikipedia.

    17d ago · artmuseum.artfrompixels.com · its alternatives →

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    Commented on yesterday's Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026), thought I might as well submit a Show HN. If you see climbing world cup/championship, there is this 3D modelling thing [1]. I want that for my weekly bouldering. I scanned my local climbing gym into 3D mesh using iphone. Built a simple editor to trim, merge, move/rotate meshes. You can interact with the mesh, view routes, view climb, etc. So this is unlike many gaussian splatting projects where the main use is for viewing. I built a pipeline in updating climbing walls. Climbing routes are manually annotated.…

    Aug 2026 · kmcheung12.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Explore real buildings in AR

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    Explore interesting places from around the world in VR

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    Your Obsidian vault as a living profile and linked garden

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    GitCity▲113

    GitCity transforms your GitHub contribution history into an interactive isometric 3D city skyline. Every commit builds a skyscraper. Free, open-source, embeddable in any README.

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    Abstract page for arXiv paper 1908.06062: Adversarial shape perturbations on 3D point clouds

    2019 · arxiv.org · its alternatives →

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    Inca is a free, open-source 3D modeling, animation and rendering application for Windows, Mac and Linux that works like Maya 2020.

    3d ago · incacad.com · its alternatives →

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    We build d3d platform for civil firms for 3D-Models

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    Simulate anything on a map from a text prompt -- and conduct risk analysis against LiveUA map's global realtime data points from social media and news sources. I trained a GPT-2-size model on historical incident data used to predict things that will go wrong. As historian Benjamin Breen mentions, the leading language models are good historians, so the application will simulate historical events pretty well also. I include a Multi-Agent RL Urban Mobility model in progress displayed on the map as small white cubes representing traffic and pedestrians. Around SF, it uses real census data and…

    2025 · mused.com · its alternatives →

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    The most realistic VR experience to date

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    Hi HN, I built Build4Me to address a trust problem in diaspora-funded construction projects. Many families send money home to build houses but have no reliable way to verify that work is actually being done. Photos can be reused, progress exaggerated, or projects abandoned after funds are sent. Build4Me introduces milestone-based funding where each construction milestone must be verified before funds are released. The system verifies progress using: - geotagged photo capture - GPS location verification - AI image analysis - duplicate image detection It runs on serverless AWS architecture…

    2025 · builder.aws.com · its alternatives →

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    Simple game, lots of fun.

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    Bringing history back to life in VR

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    I built a browser-based port of fogleman/primitive — a Go CLI tool that approximates images using primitive shapes (triangles, ellipses, beziers, etc.) via a hill-climbing algorithm. The original tool requires building from source and running from the terminal, which isn't exactly accessible. I compiled the core logic to WebAssembly so anyone can drop an image and watch it get reconstructed shape by shape, entirely client-side with no server involved. Demo: https://primitive-playground.taiseiue.jp/ Source:…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I built depthviz, an open-source CLI tool that generates depth & time overlay videos from dive logs. It supports dive computers (Garmin, Suunto, Shearwater, Apnealizer) and manual input for freedivers who want to enhance their footage with real-time dive data. Why I Built It: Adding dive data to videos manually is tedious. depthviz automates this by reading dive logs (.fit, .csv, .xml) from various sources, generating an overlay video with real-time depth, allowing full customization (fonts, colors, depth smoothing, stroke width), and running on Windows, macOS, and Linux. How It…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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