fusslo 19 hours ago

I always love these miniatures when I see them in museums, airports, city halls, etc.

Maybe I missed it, I didn't see where the data came from. I am wondering if someone did scans of the city with something that generates point cloud data. Or maybe extrapolated from a 2d satellite and then later fixed by humans?

  • marceldegraaf 19 hours ago

    The Netherlands has very complete and reliable public datasets (provided by the government) that contain loads of information about roads, buildings, up to individual trees. Additionally, there's sites like Netherlands3D[0] that combines these datasets into a 3D representation of the entire country.

    0: https://netherlands3d.eu/

    • fusslo 15 hours ago

      very cool! thank you

pavel_lishin 19 hours ago

I love the overhead projector adding another level of information to this.

I wonder how hard it would be to make one of these of my town.

Surely there's publicly available lidar data that I could import into some software to slice it into squares small enough for me to 3D-print? Although I guess I'd have to make sure I'm not just printing noise where trees are...

  • pineaux 18 hours ago

    it depends how big you want to scale it. This one must be quite costly by the look of it. I wouldnt be surprised if it costs multiple hundreds of thousands to realise this maquette.

    • pavel_lishin 16 hours ago

      Oh, I'm sure - this is a professional installation. I'd have a budget of... whatever filament I have laying around :P

      Hell, might be easier to somehow convert my 3D printer into something that can cut XPS foam instead.

intrasight 17 hours ago

In my opinion, this is the kind of thing that is better done with AR.

  • skylurk 15 hours ago

    Isn't it AR? Or do you mean the headset kind?

    • intrasight 10 hours ago

      I did mean the headset kind.

      I guess one could say that all human artifacts augment reality.