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Minecraft Map of Northwestern Campus Printed In 3D
erich666 writes "Ben Rothman has created a five-foot-wide scale model of most of Northwestern University, where he was a sophomore this past year. This campus model is unique: it is the first modeled in Minecraft and then printed on a 3D printer. It is also the largest Minecraft 3D print to date, and will be on display in the main lobby of the largest building on campus in a few weeks. Ben began in November and spent about 600 hours recreating the campus. He notes that "this felt like playing a game more than a modeling task." The cost of the print material was about $2000 to $2500, well less than the cost of the display case being built for it (admittedly, labor costs are included for the case). The free Mineways program was used for export. It can help upload an exported Minecraft model to Shapeways, i.materialise, or other 3D print service. Models cost as little as $5."
Wasting primetime college years not getting laid.
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I don't see any tell-tale creeper scars in there. I bet he wasn't even mapping in survival mode; cheater.
A site which doesn't use that craptacularly insecure Flash to display simple pictures.
And on one page no less!
Maybe that supposed Mayan prediction is coming true after all.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
NU has some of the oldest/biggest trees in the Chicago area. The campus is really beautiful, with lots of different and interesting architecture going on.
There's a gothic cathedral, some modern art buildings, etc.
It's a very nice campus and it covers probably half of Evanston.
Wouldn't this violate the copyright held by the architect?
While this would be a cool spare-time project, I don't really see how using Minecraft to model something is even a remotely useful skill that a school would want to teach, let alone spend $5000+ on. He should have spent the 600 hours learning a real CAD or modeling software package. 600 hours is enough to get really good at just about anything. Seems like a waste of school resources to me. Flame away.
Kinda like when someone at my local university made a Counter Strike map of the student union, called de_union (where terrorists had to plant a bomb). They recreated every detail, every desk placement, etc - all five stories of it, even the basement, which is filled with all of the mechanical equipment, etc.
We played it during LAN parties on campus. It was for fun, but someone told on us and the LAN club got disbanded.
northwestrn does not let anyone in even for the football team.
Here is your Flash Fix
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
Make a poster of it at mineposter.com. Might be a little less than $5K
or maybe they set the bar just high enough to rule out those who can't spell the name of the school.
This sounds eerily like a page taken from the Dresden Files books, in which the titular character builds a model of Chicago in his basement in order to better keep an eye over his home town using magic.
Seriously the last line just kills it. "Models cost as little as".
how much time would it take to make that model in blender instead?
No shit. You were playing a game. MineCraft is a game.
Online 3D printing services are nice to have, but you can also make your own 3D printer. Some RepStraps are even made from discarded Epson inkjet printers.
If you don't feel like you're able to design your own, you can also buy parts or even full kits from MakerBot, Ultimaker, etc.
SSSsssssss! Ahem, anyway, what's with all the bum hurt in the posts? Modeled the university and made a physical model cheaply, win win. Looks better than the dioramas I see in museums.
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This is actually the first time I've seen 3D printing material up that close. It actually doesn't look very high quality. The edges are not at all sharp. It actually looks a bit like some kind of foam rubber or styrofoam cut into those shapes with an exacto.
Just wait until the DHS catches wind of this. After all, if taking a 2D photograph of a public building can get you hit with being a threat to national security, just think how DANGEROUS a 3D model of a school campus could be.
Gotta mine that....
The Minecraft first person view should give hints towards different tools than the typical birds eye view. We have all the technology we need for a globally accessible persistent user-constructable 3D world, but it hasn't happened yet. We even have a bunch of movies pointing the way, I wonder why it hasn't happened yet?
Well.............
Does this mean there is a method for 3D printing that full scale model of the Enterprise NCC-1701-D when they are finished with it ?????