Samizdat PublicationsThings I built to see if they could be built.

No. 017Simulations, v1.0, opened 09/13/2026

Seked

A survey-accurate 3D Giza plateau across five eras, built to test the claims of Graham Hancock and others against the real measurements.

Built with Opus 5.5, Opus 5, Fable 5.1

1What it is

The Giza plateau rebuilt from the survey and path traced in five eras, from the claimed First Time of 10,500 BCE to today. Every "encoded mathematics" claim (pi and phi in the profile, the 1:43,200 Earth scale, the Orion Correlation, the shaft alignments and the rest) is computed from the same measurements that build the geometry.

Seked is the Egyptian unit of slope: palms of run per cubit of rise. A seked of 5 1/2 is the whole pi and phi story.

  • The guided tourThe case for an older Giza in ten stops. Each stop moves the view and runs the eras.
  • The walkthroughSeventeen 360-degree stations, outdoors and inside the Great Pyramid and the valley temple, each in every era it stands in.
  • Five erasThe First Time (theorized), the long rains (theorized), Giza as built (reconstruction), stripped and buried (reconstruction), today (survey).
  • The filmsThe rollback from today to the First Time, the Sphinx from lion to excavation, and a flight up the approach as built.
  • The sky alignmentsOrion over the pyramids, the lion facing Leo, the shafts and their stars, each drawn as its strongest case with the size of its miss stated.
  • The claims dossierTwenty-two claims, each with its residual, tolerance and the free choices it needs. Fifteen land within their own tolerance.

2What is real

  • 1HYG 4.2 star catalogueDavid NashCC BY-SA 4.0
  • 2Monument footprintsOpenStreetMap contributorsODbL
  • 3City footprints and heightsGoogle Open Buildings v3 and 2.5D TemporalCC BY 4.0
  • 4TerrainCopernicus GLO-30Copernicus data licence
  • 5Skies and texturesPoly HavenCC0
  • Nothing is typed twice. Every number lives once, with a source; derived quantities are computed, never stored.
  • Pyramids from the survey; everything else placed, then labelled. Temples, tombs and the Sphinx stand on surveyed footprints to about a metre and are marked as visual stand-ins.
  • Every era says what it is: survey, reconstruction, or theorized.

3How it was built

939 commits, counted from the repository history:

  • Opus 5.5553
  • Opus 5209
  • Fable 5.1177

Path traced in Blender Cycles at 4096 by 2048 per station. 1,014 tests cover the packages, the scripts and the Blender reader.

4Related files

Colophon

Each file here started as a question about whether something could be built: a mechanism, a plateau, an ecosystem, an orbit. They were built with Claude Code and kept with their sources, their status and the models that wrote them. Copy it, pass it on.