0006 · BLOCOS

The same pyramid as piece 0005, now with real blocks and no dither: conventional Three.js finishing. Each casing block is a mould that appears, fills and sets in place, in the sequence the film describes — the white ring, the core poured inside it, the corridors left open on the faces for the brigades, the pyramidion and the crews descending to close the corridors until the face is smooth.

piece

0006 · BLOCOS · 2026-09-17 · 14 min · real time

technique

Three.js r160 with MeshStandardMaterial, shadowed directional light and hemisphere; ~74k instanced casing wedges (one per block, face at 51.84°), core as a stack of frusta clipped to the poured height, fill blocks sweeping the working course, instanced moulds ahead of the pour; corridors as gaps in the ring, closed top-down; the calendar in plan.mjs (1,370 working days, 12 shown in full), each worker’s life in crew.mjs (route, a step capped at 55 m per second of screen time, fatigue, hours of the day and days on site; click a figure for its card and for first person) and the routing in nav.mjs (waypoint graph with Dijkstra, the pyramid climbed only by its corridors); polish by a descending clipping plane; the cavity as a parametric bowl with rock and concrete on complementary clipping planes; the GLB interior clipped to the built height (wooden moulds in the cavity, cyan galleries in the cutaway); OrbitControls for a free camera

buffer

screen resolution · 2048² shadows · courses and blocks from courses.mjs, the same source as 0005

time

~14 simulated days of 30 s (20 of sun): the work only advances with people at their posts; the sequence is the Nile drainage (5 s), the natural cavity with moulds and rising concrete (14 s), slab, cords, the first course in detail (22 s: the four corners, thirty blocks one by one with the brigade, then the ring), 209 courses in time-lapse with an automatic cutaway while the galleries rise, pyramidion, corridor closing and polish · HUD year by poured volume

inputs

survey (base, height, seked) · modelled courses [measure] · interior: great_pyramid_aem.glb (CC-BY 4.0) · sequence: Great Pyramid K 2019, labelled · workforce: up to 2,000 figures with IDs (each stands for 4 people [decision]), a role per phase, 15 kg buckets passed hand to hand; block density 2.3 t/m³ [measure]; the near group is swappable for a Mixamo GLB with BLOCOS.setActor(url)

licence

code MIT · piece CC BY-NC 4.0 · AEM model CC-BY 4.0 (aminetti) · Three.js MIT · signed by Nilo River