Today, the Church unveiled an 88-inch scale model of the Salt Lake Temple in the South Visitors’ Center on Temple Square in Salt Lake. You can see an introduction of the model in the video clip above. It is a 1:32 scale replica of the temple, with the walls cut away so visitors can see [...]
Dr. William Hamblin has put together some very cool high resolution 360° panoramas of different locations on Temple Square in Salt Lake City. And they really are 360°. You can look in all different directions, including up and down. It gives the impression of standing on the spot. Well done!
The locations he has included are:
West [...]
February 26, 2009 – 4:30 pm
The Telegraph reported today about a man from Norfolk, England, who has spent the last 30 years building an awesome, gigantic and highly detailed scale model of Herod’s Temple. Here are some interesting facts about it:
Estimated 33,000 hours to construct
Measures 20ft by 12ft
Includes 4,000 tiny human figures, with authentic time-period dress
1:100 scale
Everything is hand-made down [...]
August 26, 2008 – 11:04 am
If you’ve been following me for a while you know that I like computer graphics. I’ve worked in the industry for almost a decade, and enjoy new technologies that make computing a more visual experience. You’ve seen my 3D model of the Salt Lake Temple for Google Earth, and the Google Street Views of the [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Temples Today, Tidbits
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Also tagged 3D, church, experience, google, google earth, historical, nauvoo, online, photos, salt lake temple, visit
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As I was researching for the posts on the ankh, I came across some information which was interesting, describing the Egyptian concept of “time” and “eternity.” These concepts almost seem repetitive and redundant to our modern way of thinking, but to the Egyptians each of these terms represented something concrete and distinct, and both were [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts, Scholarship, Texts
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Also tagged abraham, ancients, book of the dead, djet, egyptian, endowment, eternal, eternity, hieroglyph, hugh nibley, initiate, joseph smith, life, neheh, ordinances, symbols, time, translation, tutankhamun
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