3D-print a Norwegian fjord from your browser • Hacker News Board

Re: 3D-print a Norwegian fjord from your browser

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Post by arethuza » Fri, Sep 27, 2013, 3:40 PM UTC

sambeau wrote: post #27

arethuza wrote: post #15

Google's 3D building data for some cities (e.g. here in Edinburgh) is incredible - I'd tempted to get a 3D printer and work out ways of printing interesting parts of town. Maybe my favourite mountains as well from OS data...

I'd love to see this for Scotland. I'd be tempted to buy my favourite Hebrides.

What would be really cool (at least for me) is to be able to print landscape models with geological data included as well....

[e.g. the Black and Red Cuillins of Skye]

Re: 3D-print a Norwegian fjord from your browser

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Post by DougWebb » Fri, Sep 27, 2013, 3:43 PM UTC

jimmytidey wrote: post #20

Presumably landscapes with gentle gradients and fewer overhangs are going to be significantly easier to print than architecture.

That depends on the 3D printing technology. Some are perfectly fine with overhangs because the medium is self-supporting, and most can handle small overhangs at each vertical step without much trouble.

Re: 3D-print a Norwegian fjord from your browser

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Post by hnha » Fri, Sep 27, 2013, 4:27 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #18

jacquesm wrote: post #11

Not equatorial enough.

Downvoter: hand in your nerd card.

Your comment added nothing to the discussion so no. Such cheap jokes are really not interesting.

Re: 3D-print a Norwegian fjord from your browser

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Post by cgore » Fri, Sep 27, 2013, 4:36 PM UTC

I like backpacking, and often spend money on topographic maps because of this (typically from mytopo.com). I do like this site's idea. It obviously wouldn't work as a map, but it might be nice to integrate a lot of standard topographic map features into the models themselves. Especially if you can do it on really small-scale areas, architects might really want it.

Re: 3D-print a Norwegian fjord from your browser

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Post by bdickason » Fri, Sep 27, 2013, 4:36 PM UTC

Thanks for posting this! Very, very cool app :) I helped create the Shapeways API and just shared it with our dev team.

People are blown away, this is by far the best app we've seen using our API!!

Perusing your Github repo right now :D

Re: 3D-print a Norwegian fjord from your browser

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Post by icefox » Fri, Sep 27, 2013, 4:44 PM UTC

It would have been really cool if trolltunga had shown up

http://terrafab.bengler.no/?box=41148.01808864827,6694070.28...

Re: 3D-print a Norwegian fjord from your browser

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Post by adamsch » Fri, Sep 27, 2013, 8:07 PM UTC

just saw the print in real life in the Bengler office, looks awesome

Re: 3D-print a Norwegian fjord from your browser

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Post by BerislavLopac » Fri, Sep 27, 2013, 8:16 PM UTC

mkl wrote: post #9

"genuine gypsum heirloom mantelpiece display replica" 3D printing is only going to get cheaper and more accessible - I think pretty soon that "heirloom" is going to look like a dollar-store trinket. Still, aside from the hyperbole this is a pretty neat idea, and New Zealand certainly has some landscapes worth this treatment too (including fjords, even). Australia has some impressive cliff forms that would work; seems…

Reminds me of the old aluminium cutlery...

Re: 3D-print a Norwegian fjord from your browser

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Post by T-hawk » Fri, Sep 27, 2013, 8:57 PM UTC

DanBC wrote: post #21

It'd be ace if I could 3d print the moon at some sensible scale. Or Mars.

They wouldn't be that interesting. Planetary sized bodies are really spherical (oblate of course.) Even Olympus Mons at 22 km height is only 0.3% of Mars's diameter of 6700 km. If your Mars model was a meter wide, the biggest mountain would protrude for all of 3 mm worth of relief on the surface.