3D printed maquette of Amsterdam on scale 1:2000

35 pointsposted 6 days ago
by fjfaase
(at5.nl)

15 Comments

jawline

15 hours ago

A while ago I wrote a program to generate models like this from lidar data and more recently to fill in missing data with a simple model (https://github.com/jawline/reflector/). Lots of the world has such data publicly available so its pretty cool to print your local area with recent data.

fusslo

2 days 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

2 days 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

2 days ago

very cool! thank you

pavel_lishin

2 days 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

2 days 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

2 days 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.

user

2 days ago

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intrasight

2 days ago

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

skylurk

2 days ago

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

intrasight

2 days ago

I did mean the headset kind.

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

skylurk

a day ago

This one has projectors and animated sprites, kinda like the headset stuff. Maybe it has a different name, IDK.