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▲ 6 r/iPhone17Pro

Need to photograph dimly lit Egyptian tombs and museum objects. Will the 17 Pro be an improvement over the 14 Pro

Heading to Egypt in October for a study project and hoping to take detailed images of tomb wall paintings and ancient furniture in dark-ish museum displays. I'm wondering if it's worth upgrading from my 14 Pro.

(edit: one place where the 14Pro really falls down is zoomed-in detail in low light. I'd really like to get better closeups through display glass.)

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u/PeaEquivalent2350 — 6 days ago
▲ 55 r/Chairmaking

Egyptian Chair

Copy of a very simple chair from the Ägyptisches Museum & Papyrussammlung in Berlin. The seat frame is 1cm deeper on one side, throwing the back slightly off kilter. It doesn't affect the ergonomics much - it feels more like a stool with a back, rather than a chair you can slouch in. The seat frame is also slightly sloping down towards the middle, so you don't feel the inside corners through the weave..

u/PeaEquivalent2350 — 10 days ago
▲ 37 r/handtools

Nice thrift store find.

A friend spotted this No.3 Type 15 for me at the local VV! Very fresh looking for something from 1931-32 (price - CAN$29.95). Now I just need to remove the packing tape and sticker residue.

u/PeaEquivalent2350 — 18 days ago
▲ 53 r/Chairmaking

Copy of Egyptian stool from British Museum EA 46705

About 4.25" high. Danish paper cord to emulate papyrus webbing. Beech.

u/PeaEquivalent2350 — 1 month ago
▲ 3 r/3DScanning

Should I sell my scanner? What would be a reasonable re-sale percentage of list price be for a lightly used Rockit ?

I recently purchased an Einstar Rockit and used it to create about 15 projects (NIR museum object scans). It might be a year or two before need it again. I'm thinking I'd get the most for it now and by the time need to scan again, there might be new products lower priced and better suited to my needs....but I'm happy enough with its results so far and wondering if future software updates are likely to keep it up to speed with other scanners over a one or two year timeframe. (edit: I'd be selling it locally, so don't mean for this to seem like an advertisement)

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u/PeaEquivalent2350 — 1 month ago
▲ 199 r/FuckYourEamesLounge

Stool from the tomb of Kha (c.1425 – 1353 BCE)

The Museo Egizio has posted a 3D scan of this stool:
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/stool-258dc621f2fd4040ab696b1960e44d9d

..and other furniture from the tomb of Kha and his wife Merit (TT8):

https://sketchfab.com/Museoegizio/collections/wooden-furniture-tomb-of-kha-883e452bd9384acb95fc68b6af7a84c6

Kha was a sort of contractor/overseer of tomb construction under 3 different pharaohs.

u/PeaEquivalent2350 — 2 months ago
▲ 48 r/Chairmaking

Latrine Stool from the Tomb of Kha (about 1350 BCE Egypt)

This stool was left (along with a bed and a few other housewares) in the tunnel, just outside the tomb door. The tomb owner was elderly and X-rays show that he likely had a lot of back pain. The original is weirdly constructed , being a slab seat on a diagonally braced legs (usually slab seats have three single legs or diagonally braced legs have top made from slats held in a frame). The pinned floating tenons are oddly located, which suggests it was made from salvaged wood. The hole was narrowed a bit during construction, You can see on the original object that the seat curvature was deepened after the paint job, partly exposing the floating tenons and mortises of the lattice bracing. This suggests the person doing that modification didn't have the same skill level as the original builder. Also, some of the lattice bracing was removed - possibly so that someone could reach in and wipe Kha's behind. It was a fun project and the first time that I decided to try exactly replicating all the small nuances of the shaping. This is a proposed restoration - at the point where it got the paint job and before further (inexpert) modifications were made.

u/PeaEquivalent2350 — 2 months ago
▲ 1 r/3DScanning

I use scans of furniture to build wooden replicas and wondering if there's a more efficient way that what I'm currently doing. I'm using Blender and would prefer to not spend money (or time learning) on software unless there's a huge advantage. Right now, I use Blender's built-in measuring/annotation tool and the MeasureIt plugin. The built-in tool is initially locked to orthographic planes and it's a hassle to move the measuring points to coincide with the surface topology on dense meshes. MeasureIt only works between vertices of the same face, so I create measured cubes I can align to the mesh. It works and it has some advantages but it's a pretty slow process. I'd prefer not to retopologise the models.

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u/PeaEquivalent2350 — 3 months ago