3d Printed Maquette of Amsterdam on Scale 1:2000

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A 1:2000 scale 3D printed model of Amsterdam has been created, showcasing the city's layout and architecture, with commenters discussing its potential applications and impressive details.

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abstractspoon

3 months ago

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All that plastic

bondarchuk

3 months ago

What of it?

fusslo

3 months ago

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I always love these miniatures when I see them in museums, airports, city halls, etc.

Maybe I missed it, I didn't see where the data came from. I am wondering if someone did scans of the city with something that generates point cloud data. Or maybe extrapolated from a 2d satellite and then later fixed by humans?

marceldegraaf

3 months ago

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The Netherlands has very complete and reliable public datasets (provided by the government) that contain loads of information about roads, buildings, up to individual trees. Additionally, there's sites like Netherlands3D[0] that combines these datasets into a 3D representation of the entire country.

0: https://netherlands3d.eu/

fusslo

3 months ago

very cool! thank you

pavel_lishin

3 months ago

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I love the overhead projector adding another level of information to this.

I wonder how hard it would be to make one of these of my town.

Surely there's publicly available lidar data that I could import into some software to slice it into squares small enough for me to 3D-print? Although I guess I'd have to make sure I'm not just printing noise where trees are...

pineaux

3 months ago

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it depends how big you want to scale it. This one must be quite costly by the look of it. I wouldnt be surprised if it costs multiple hundreds of thousands to realise this maquette.

pavel_lishin

3 months ago

Oh, I'm sure - this is a professional installation. I'd have a budget of... whatever filament I have laying around :P

Hell, might be easier to somehow convert my 3D printer into something that can cut XPS foam instead.

intrasight

3 months ago

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In my opinion, this is the kind of thing that is better done with AR.

skylurk

3 months ago

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Isn't it AR? Or do you mean the headset kind?

intrasight

3 months ago

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I did mean the headset kind.

I guess one could say that all human artifacts augment reality.

skylurk

2 months ago

This one has projectors and animated sprites, kinda like the headset stuff. Maybe it has a different name, IDK.

JBiserkov

3 months ago

Stockholm has a free 1:1000 model in the center of the city that you can walk on!

https://vaxer.stockholm/en/visit-us/the-stockholm-room/

jawline

2 months ago

A while ago I wrote a program to generate models like this from lidar data and more recently to fill in missing data with a simple model (https://github.com/jawline/reflector/). Lots of the world has such data publicly available so its pretty cool to print your local area with recent data.

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