UCLA Digital Karnak experience

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UCLA Digital Karnak experience

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http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Karna ... leModel/13

http://www.today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/tea ... 89298.aspx

Team's re-creation of ancient Karnak brings history of pharaohs to life


After being crowned one of ancient Egypt’s rare female pharaohs, Queen Hatshepsut renovated a coronation hall lined with statuary depicting her father, her highly regarded predecessor, as a god. In the center of the hall, she installed two 10-story red granite obelisks and a beautiful red quartzite chapel inscribed with images of herself erecting the colossal obelisks
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.

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That's a coincidence: a friend of mine, a professional computer graphics animator (age 70...), also made a fly-through of the same temple (for a TV commercial), about 6 years ago. In full color, as it must have been when Hatshepsut built it!
I'll see if I can find it.
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