[HN Gopher] 3D printed maquette of Amsterdam on scale 1:2000
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       3D printed maquette of Amsterdam on scale 1:2000
        
       Author : fjfaase
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2025-10-24 14:04 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.at5.nl)
        
       | abstractspoon wrote:
       | All that plastic
        
         | bondarchuk wrote:
         | What of it?
        
       | fusslo wrote:
       | 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 wrote:
         | 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.
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         | 0: https://netherlands3d.eu/
        
           | fusslo wrote:
           | very cool! thank you
        
       | pavel_lishin wrote:
       | 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 wrote:
         | 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 wrote:
           | 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 wrote:
       | In my opinion, this is the kind of thing that is better done with
       | AR.
        
         | skylurk wrote:
         | Isn't it AR? Or do you mean the headset kind?
        
       | JBiserkov wrote:
       | 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/
        
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