Dassault 3D Tools Help Solve Great Pyramid mystery
You’ve heard all about how 3D technology can be tapped to design everything from football-field-size airplanes to the latest high-tech mountain bikes. Well, what about employing 3D to solve one of the world’s great mysteries: How the Great Pyramid of Kheops was built.
Jean-Pierre Houdin, a French architect, has come up with a theory, which is says is scientifically proven thanks to the use of Dassault Systemes’ real-time 3D solutions. At a recent conference, Houdin created a virtual reality auditorium using seven networked computers running Dassault’s Virtools to recreate the pyramid construction site in 3D, exactly as it was 4,500 years ago.
Houdin’s theory is based on three foundations: The use of an outside ramp to build the first 43 metres of the pyramid; the use of an internal spiral ramp running behind the faces of the pyramid to complete construction; and the use of the Great Gallery to accommodate a system of counterweights to lift some of the heavy granite ceiling rafters, which can weigh in at up to 63 tons.
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David commented:
What about the time it would take to not only set up, but build this building? Don't leave out the precision in your calculations. This was all supposedly built under orders from the king in power, and in time for his burial??
19.5 Degrees commented:
Conspiracies 19.5 degrees has been associated with many world mysteries, could Oak Island hold the answer to these unsolved mysteries, the planets in our solar system have significant energy anomaly spots in the area of 19.5 degrees even here on earth certain areas around 19.5 degrees are somewhat dormant/active volcanic area’s, it is also believed the Mars Pathfinder landed at 19.5 degrees latitude on Mars on July 4,''1997. The jury is still out weather there is formations on mars at 19.5 degrees or not but I am open to all possibilities when it comes to mysteries because I am investigating a mystery but I am keeping things down to earth for now because this is where the answers are. This 19.5 degrees seems to be a energy area point around the world and to some planets in our solar system, the makers of this well documented Oak Island stone triangle may have very well have known the secrets to these planetary energy anomalies, this Oak Island mystery is much bigger than a physical treasure it’s more like a treasure tree of knowledge my quest to solve this mystery is branching out towards the true nature of what this mystery is all about.
Keith commented:
OAK ISLAND TEMPLATREASURETRIANGLE The secrets are unraveling with this Oak Island treasure mystery it is evident that this mystery is about triangles and right angles. Right angle square and compass are the basic tools of the Great builders of ancient structures and the Freemasons used these instruments in their rituals basically these tools were instrumental for me in creating this Oak Island triangle theory. For more information go to canadaka.net/blog/oakster
Gerry commented:
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LL commented:
How did they lift 50 tonne granite blocks 15 stories high? How did they cut and polish granite using only copper tools? People fail to realize that for over 40 centuries (atleast) no one in the world could create anything like it, or even close to it, why? what happened to the specialized knowledge that was used in building the great pyramid? Why are we even today unable to explain how and for what the great pyramid was built. There was nothing found inside the great pyramid, no body, no inscriptions, no idol, no nothing.
JBK commented:
Project engineers on this were just menials, paid a little more than the slave workers. The real genius was the CEO with his bonus paid in gold and jewls, and his upper management who were given bonus for enslaving the workers. The reason there are no records of how it was built is the CEO's lawyers required all documentation destroyed one year after construction.
Marcello commented:
Everyone is studying the technology used but what about the design and management of all those complex operations?
Warren commented:
The simple truth is our brain is the most powerful computer in the world. Garbage in garbage out. We have a lot more garbage going in now than they did. It is a wonder we can think at all.
Ken commented:
It's a bit humbling as an engineer, to see how much hardware and software we need to figure out how to build something, that someone else figured out without even having a calculator!
K MELIKIAN commented:
VEC
Darrin commented:
Aliens. LOL!! "Paging George Noorey. Mr. George Noorey, please pick up a white courtesy phone." But, seriously, folks... I'd like to see the graphical output of the reverse-engineering presentation posted somewhere as a video showing how the porposed construction methods were implemented.
Richard commented:
I don't buy it. The pyramids were built by aliens.
Kris Jackson commented:
Interesting how little we know about how this building was made, and interesting how CAD tools can help "reverse-engineer" the builders' techniques.
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