3D-print a Norwegian fjord from your browser(terrafab.bengler.no)
terrafab.bengler.no
3D-print a Norwegian fjord from your browser
http://terrafab.bengler.no/
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"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 like thousands of areas worldwide.
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 like thousands of areas worldwide.
Reminds me of the old aluminium cutlery...
This is really nice, I wanted to get a version of Nordkapp for my father, but I feel that $100 is a bit to pricey for a 10cmx10cm version.
Nice project, and very nice with their partnership with Shapeways.
Exporting their model, and uploading it on Shapeways gives me a price of 42.65 EUR ($57.59) including shipping.
Nice project, and very nice with their partnership with Shapeways.
Exporting their model, and uploading it on Shapeways gives me a price of 42.65 EUR ($57.59) including shipping.
We pin the price to $100 and vary our markup depending on volume. The most dramatic landscape in Norway, Trollveggen – the image we shown on the site, gives us a markup of exactly zero. We're running this off a small cluster of colocated boxes with SSDs to handle the IO for the elevation models. So it's mostly to keep the lights on.
That said, we hadn't tested it on flatter landscapes and the models we tested with only gave us a markup of a few dollars. The markup we put on your model seems slightly greedy. We're lowering it now to a maximum of $20.
That said, we hadn't tested it on flatter landscapes and the models we tested with only gave us a markup of a few dollars. The markup we put on your model seems slightly greedy. We're lowering it now to a maximum of $20.
We've deployed a fix for the pricing model capping markup at $20. Does that feel about right?
Yeah, that seems more right, thanks for answering so fast.
Heh, it says "removing trolls" when generating the preview (after clicking get it printed)
I walked Besseggen last summer [1] and the model [2] for that looks pretty accurate with the huge drop on both sides down to two different waters.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Walking_on_Besseggen.jpg [2] http://terrafab.bengler.no/preview?box=164077.08468046575,68...
I walked Besseggen last summer [1] and the model [2] for that looks pretty accurate with the huge drop on both sides down to two different waters.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Walking_on_Besseggen.jpg [2] http://terrafab.bengler.no/preview?box=164077.08468046575,68...
So, how can I get the one with Slartibartfast's signature?
Huh, one nice and actually useful application of WebGL for once.
Are all the models signed by Slartibartfast?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slartibartfast
I love the fact that they generate the mesh for users that have their own 3d printers for free.
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
People are blown away, this is by far the best app we've seen using our API!!
Perusing your Github repo right now :D
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...
Maybe my favourite mountains as well from OS data...
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.
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.
Why? Perhaps the one advantage of these expensive, "heirloom" trinkets is that most traditional molding limitations are no longer issues.
It would have been really cool if trolltunga had shown up
http://terrafab.bengler.no/?box=41148.01808864827,6694070.28...
http://terrafab.bengler.no/?box=41148.01808864827,6694070.28...
Very interesting. But why restrict this to just landscapes? What's to prevent someone from allowing 3D printing of any landmark in the world like the Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu, Eiffel Tower or London Eye?
Sigh, copyright I suppose.
Sigh, copyright I suppose.
The dataset they use is the just-released public Norwegian map data. There are few man-made landmarks in the local topography. (c:
Oh, okay. But assuming we get there, in terms of the dataset, do you reckon it would be legal for a service to offer 3D printing of famous landmarks?
It would almost certainly depend on the country, but if the structure has some kind of copyright, miniature replicas would likely not be legal without permission.
In some countries, building facades and similar can be copyrighted, which is mostly discussed in the context of photography. Some countries have an exception called "freedom of panorama", which gives some fair-use rights for photographs of things that can be photographed from a public street. How broad such permission is varies: in some jurisdictions it's fairly broad permission, while in other countries it may only apply to photographs of a general street scene that contains the building as one element, but may not apply to detailed architectural photography focused on a particular building.
But that's only for photography, at least so far, not for 3d reproductions. To take an existing area where the distinction between the two comes up, in some jurisdictions you can take (and sell) photographs of sculptures that are installed in public squares under freedom-of-panorama, but still cannot sell reproductions of the sculpture, whether full-size or miniature, if it's new enough to be copyrighted.
The above doesn't typically to things old enough to be out of copyright, like Big Ben, or Rodin sculptures, though I wouldn't be surprised if some jurisdictions have special-case laws about use of their famous landmarks.
In some countries, building facades and similar can be copyrighted, which is mostly discussed in the context of photography. Some countries have an exception called "freedom of panorama", which gives some fair-use rights for photographs of things that can be photographed from a public street. How broad such permission is varies: in some jurisdictions it's fairly broad permission, while in other countries it may only apply to photographs of a general street scene that contains the building as one element, but may not apply to detailed architectural photography focused on a particular building.
But that's only for photography, at least so far, not for 3d reproductions. To take an existing area where the distinction between the two comes up, in some jurisdictions you can take (and sell) photographs of sculptures that are installed in public squares under freedom-of-panorama, but still cannot sell reproductions of the sculpture, whether full-size or miniature, if it's new enough to be copyrighted.
The above doesn't typically to things old enough to be out of copyright, like Big Ben, or Rodin sculptures, though I wouldn't be surprised if some jurisdictions have special-case laws about use of their famous landmarks.
Very neat. I'm ordering a print of my home town. Then we can add pins to show where our house, where grandparents live, etc. I'm sure the kids will enjoy it.
Sweet! The number of places I want to visit just increased!
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.
1:1 would be good. Now, where could I find a model like that..
I, for one, was expecting a horse.
just saw the print in real life in the Bengler office, looks awesome
Wow!
physibles
Not, I'm assuming, life-sized.
Slartibartfast: Oh, yes. Did you ever go to a place - I think it was called Norway?
Arthur Dent: No. No, I didn't.
Slartibartfast: Pity. That was one of mine. Won an award, you know. Lovely crinkly edges.