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We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft

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Re: We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft

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Post by FeepingCreature »

Loveaway wrote: post #14
alexshendi wrote: post #7

"We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft" Nice move, then we can all move to Minecraft, when we are finished with this planet and have used it up.

Maybe we can. If you assume the mind is the constant in our reality - opposite to the traditional view, in which the physical world is supporting the mind - then we should be able to move into a virtual one. Maybe we're just layering worlds on top of each other, and old ones can become irrelevant, forgotten and disappear. Our current world could be just a virtual one, built on top something long forgotten, and will i…

Why would this not work in the traditional view? I have a hard time imagining a mind that can only operate in one specific reality, even in principle. How would you condition on it?

Re: We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft

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Post by Kinrany »

input_sh wrote: post #61
sbuttgereit wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now I get all the metaverse hype

Can't say I've seen anyone being hyped about it other than that guy whose last name starts with Zuck and ends with berg and like 3 weirdos online that work for him.

There are open source projects: https://github.com/M3-org/awesome-metaverse

Re: We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft

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Post by AlexSW »

uuddlrlr wrote: post #43
FearlessNebula wrote: post #19

Do they have some sort of Minecraft version control system? Can people work on a local copy and then merge their changes into the main branch?

I've spliced chunks together using sh, dd, and xxd before to resurrect my gf-at-the-time's wolf. I've also been meaning to play psuedo-multiplayer with my friends by us each claiming a region in a seed. Each region being 32x32 chunks and saved to a separate file (.mca), you can just drop their latest region into your world folder to see what they've been up to, or play on LAN and send it back after.

This first one entertains me greatly; how'd that go? Sounds like a pain!

Re: We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft

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Post by ginko »

wohfab wrote: post #69
moss2 wrote: post #65

...how? Minecraft is flat, the Earth is a sphere. What projection will be used? Mercator? What will that mean for places close to the poles, like Greenland or Canada?

I think a few questions could be answered with this video: https://youtu.be/0eyyuNvKNzw?t=242

Kind of surprized this is not in the FAQ.

Re: We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft

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Post by culebron21 »

prox wrote: post #70
culebron21 wrote: post #64

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No, art does not have to be impractical. It was practical all the history of humanity, till mid XX century, when state-funded art galleries were captured by context-violating "artists", who invented this kind of excuse.

I really suggest reading the book “But is it Art?” by Cynthia A Freeland. Because history and context was a lot different then you describe.

I'd appreciate if you explain in more detail what I got/put wrong.

I do attend modern art exhibitions occasionally, from garage exhibits to Venetian Biennale. I have friends working in it, recently worked at exhibition myself, and read on biographies of Renaissance and XIX century artists.

I find a large chunk of "modern art" boring and definitely not entertaining. I don't see why making something so grandiose makes it entertaining.

The impracticality argument is just one excuse that artists make when criticized for bad artwork. Other arguments are:

    * art hasn't to be X => a claim that it's fine anyway
    * you don't get it => a claim that there is a quality criterium, but the critic doesn't know it.
Regarding the Minecraft map in question: what if it were a small area, like just a real castle? Would it be art too or not? Or it's not art, because it's of reasonable scale? If it would be still art, then what difference does the scale make?

Re: We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft

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Post by Moru »

tristanc wrote: post #6

Not directly related to this project but in a similar spirit. Recently, while exploring france’s national geography department (Institut de Géographie Nationale [1]) website, I came across a page [2] which allows anybody to download a Minecraft world representing any 25km^2 area of France. The page lets you set the precise center and many other parameters such as whether to include buildings or even stylistic options…

Denmark 2014:

https://geoboxers.com/denmark-in-minecraft/

Re: We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft

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Post by tudorw »

anon_cow1111 wrote: post #35
samplatt wrote: post #18

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Someone got paid to make that. That was someone's job. That's freaking awesome. ...I wonder how tricky this would be to auto-generate in Unreal Engine.

Yes, my initial skim-reading thought was something something, France geography in minecraft, something something WAIT did I just read 'government program'?! I think this is an absurdly untapped function of governments agencies regardless of country; figuring out how to make interesting things that are also useful for public education. Being able to "trick" people into exploring game/internet media that immediately tr…

I'm surprised we aren't already tricking people into doing 'real' office administration by gameifying the role, look up this, match it with that, move it to this stack, move it to that stack, it's looks like Animal Crossing but actually you're cross referencing disparate sets of information in a real world dataset to deliver the required "manual last mile'.
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