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Everybody knows the earth is flat. Also before you ask - four elephants and then it’s turtles all the way down.
No, there is void under the bedrock.
Yes, the void causing what we experience as gravity.
We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft
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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…
I think the dispute you two are having is whether or not your views are representative (respecting history as well) of the broader art community. Of course, going back to your original comment: > Still I don't think this is worth a form of art, given that 99% of landscape will never be seen by anyone. Oh - it's an opinion on a highly subjective matter. And indeed, you continue to use the pronoun "I" through your resp…
> why you feel that your specific opinion is obvious enough to be held by random strangers on the internet is also beyond me
Not feeling that at all. I understand that whether it's worth an effort or not, is a subjective matter, and sure I use the pronoun "I" to speak for myself only.
The reason I got into argument is the logical problem with the argument, that the scale or impracticality makes it art, whereas small scale would not.
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#93Not 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…
Microsoft should do this. They already have the tech for Flight Simulator and they own Minecraft.
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> Still I don't think this is worth a form of art, The whole point of art is to make something cool and creative and entertaining - if it needs to be "worth it" (practically) then it won't be an art.
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 am not a native English speaker so I may not have conveyed this perfectly but when writing that comment, I specifically chose to wrote "art doesn't _need_ to be practical" as opposed "art should be impractical" :P
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#95...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?
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#96...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 look forward to reading "If the earth is a sphere, how was minecraft able to map the entire planet onto a flat surface?"
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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.
That is a reality: https://cesium.com/platform/cesium-for-unreal/
How on earth did I miss this. It overlaps all my hobbies AND everything I do for work. Thanks for posting that.
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#99What a stupid waste of time