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"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.
Now I get all the metaverse hype
Earth surface is about 500 trillion square metres, and if they make only the ground, it will be just 133 trillion of surface cubes. IDK how Minecraft stores cubes, but probably this will be 16-byte int, which makes 266 Tb. Factor in about 10x LZMA compression, this will take a size of ~26 terabytes of hard drive, or that order of magnitude. Not too much, I'd say. Still I don't think this is worth a form of art, given…
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.
For someone whos a complete n00b to minecraft: why? Seems to me that satellites and AI could do this much faster while keeping up with the pace of change...
Earth surface is about 500 trillion square metres, and if they make only the ground, it will be just 133 trillion of surface cubes. IDK how Minecraft stores cubes, but probably this will be 16-byte int, which makes 266 Tb. Factor in about 10x LZMA compression, this will take a size of ~26 terabytes of hard drive, or that order of magnitude. Not too much, I'd say. Still I don't think this is worth a form of art, given…
> 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.
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…
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.
[1] https://www.safe.com/webinars/your-data-in-unreal-how-to-bri...
...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?
...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?
...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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> 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.