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Halnichols... you are a god. | |
Disappointed at the low level of detail - you couldn't see the edges of the blocks :'( If it's not pixelated, what's the point? I guess this basically makes minecraft into some sort of game-engine driven 3D modeller lol - Maya eat your heart out! | |
That is pretty cool, I have to admit. I would love to try it out. | |
Does this mean there's gonna be a flood of home-made phallic symbols at print shops now? | |
So, they're using Minecraft as an overly complicated programme for they're 3D printer when they could get the same effect with the original program with a lot less hassle? Er, Wooo I guess? | |
I really should NOT have listened to this video and payed half attention to it while working 40k minis. I feel like my wallet is going to hide from me before i spend money on minecraft buildings. | |
and here i thought it was called legos. Still, the lack of detail (and colour, though thats probably just an option) is disappointing. I mean, if I build it out of diamond, how can i really prove it if I shows someone it in the real world without going to a comp? cause really, if I could just show them on a comp, why bother? | |
Yeah, really. Isn't technology great? | |
I think the real drawl is that if you created something Super Awesome in Minecraft you could use the 3D printer to create a real-life version. I don't imagine this is meant to replace the 3D printer programs. | |
Think i'll stick with proper 3d modelling software for when it comes to 3d prints. I mean, sure Minecraft has some appeal and is good to build some fancy pixelated stuff, but even with freeware 3d modelling software you can create much more detailed and better looking things and those have plugins for 3d printing for quite some time already. | |
Good old Python. Is there anything it can't do? | |
Speaking of 40k, didn't you think about using such thing to print your own 40k minis ? (Yes, listen to the voice of Slaanesh and let your excess and pleasure take hold of you) | |
Wow.. Yes.. that is Impressive. Why I do believe I "Do want" Question is how much does a 3d printer cost and could this, hypothetically be expanded upon sort of a form of nano construction. | |
Nope. Just buildings, parts of buildings, and rubble. I can be more creative in Minecraft compared to paper. When it comes to minis i do it myself. I make molds, use the molds, and i get free bitz. | |
Cool. I like how they appear to be using Ubuntu, as well. | |
Or alternatively you could just a build a model in 3DS or Maya and send it directly to the 3D printer as an .OBJ Would probably take you about a quarter as long too. | |
But you lose the fun of it. | |
This companion cube is from the original Portal (the guys in the video even said so). You can tell since the one in Portal 2 has pink rings around the circles with the hearts on the sides. | |
Not really. Building thing in a real program is just as much fun as in minecraft. And a hell of a lot less hassle. Also they look better. | |
So, does this mean i could get a real-life model of my floating island? | |
now I want a model of my fortress just to show it off! | |
I think you guys are kind of missing the point; this is MIT, they're screwing around for the hell of it, not to create some practical solution for anything.
It can't make you sound less douchy when you say that. | |
Print the enterprise?! wow, just... wow. | |
But surely, it'd be way easier to just google the name of the object in question, download one of the many existing free objects, and print that. Rather than create it laboriously in minecraft first. If they'd shown someone printing an entirely new, custom minecraft idea, then maybe I'd see the point. | |
Well I guess figuring out how to get the proper data out of the game is a decent achievement, but the printing itself is a pretty standard thing; we've been able to do that for quite a while. | |
I've met Cody Sumter (hell, I'm in some of the videos on his channel), so I can't say that I am in the least surprised about this. | |
Alright, now we just find a way to reverse this, and Minecraft becomes the real world TRON. I'd dig it. | |
I saw this on one of the Minecraft sites. I was a bit disappointed they used examples from other media, i.e. the companion cube and Enterprise. I would have rathered they printed something unique, like their Minecraft fortress or even just a section of landscape. That would have been cool by itself. Incidentally, someone has built a 3D printer in Minecraft. It's fairly simple, but it works. | |
OH GOD IT'S INVADING THE REAL WORLD, TOO! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! In all seriousness, this is one of the coolest things I've seen all week; I can't wait to see what people do with this... | |
I didn't even know 3D printers existed, so I'm more fascinated by the way those work than them creating a Python script. | |
do want! I mean seriously, who wouldn't want something that they had spent hours, days, even weeks working on so they could literally reach out and touch it. The figures look amazing, and it just adds another great sense of accomplishment to what the builder has already achieved in game. | |
And what do you call this fortress of yours, Barad-dûr? | |
so between the Kinect Hack and this I can print a life size version of my junk! The endless possibilities of the world around us. | |
But then you don't get to say, 'I made this. This is mine.'
That is some sweet construction there. I must say I am impressed at the dam, haven't thought of that for my construction. Making this into physical models would be sweet. | |
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MIT Puts Minecraft Creations in the Palm of Your Hand
With just a simple programming script and a 3D printer, Minecraft creations can become physical objects.
How awesome would it be if you could build something in Minecraft, and later hold a model of it in the palm of your hand? Thanks to two students at the MIT Media Lab, now you can.
Cody Sumter and Jason Boggess have put together a project called Minecraft.Print() that allows you to plop down a house or a car or a duck in Minecraft and save it as a file that can be read by a 3D printer. Once you get that file, technically anything Minecraft can become a real world model.
It works in a fairly simple manner. Players cordon off a 3D area in Minecraft that they wish to print with a specific combination of blocks. This combination doesn't naturally occur in Minecraft, so you won't end up printing the entire world. Once the area is set, a Python script generates a file that's standard for 3D printers.
Sumter and Boggess demonstrate their project by creating a Portal 2 companion cube in Minecraft, and then print it with their technique. They also show off how it can create other, larger objects like the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek.
I'm sure everyone is thinking of the wonders they'd make with Minecraft.Print(), but I just want a stable of Minecraft pigs myself. Sumter and Boggess's website for the project can be found here
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