{"id":1479,"date":"2012-01-06T14:33:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T13:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2012-01-06T14:33:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T13:33:23","slug":"another-virtuous-loop-in-3d-printingmetaverses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/06\/another-virtuous-loop-in-3d-printingmetaverses\/","title":{"rendered":"Another virtuous loop in 3d printing\/metaverses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=epredator\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>It is a few years back now that we started to see applications that would print our digital 3d designs form Second Life out into physical form. Now the current king of user generated content in a 3d multi user virtual world toolkit\/game (metaverse) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minecraft.net\/\">Minecraft<\/a>, is getting the same treatment.<br \/>\nEric Haines has created an open source package to help go from the digital blocks of Minecraft to a file format suitable for 3d printing.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MTAztZjP3ak\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhilst there is a pursuit of mesh reality in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secondlife.com\">Second Life<\/a>, smooth curves flowing lines Minecraft&#8217;s charm is that everything looks blocky, but you can still be creative in the use of those blocks and colours. (i.e. there is a prim and its a cube (there are a few extra shapes \ud83d\ude42 ). It is so far way from the uncanny valley, yet it is actually full of valleys in its digital representations.<br \/>\nWhat I think is great is that its the <a href=\"http:\/\/eightbar.eu-gb.mybluemix.net\/2006\/11\/21\/fab-fabjectory\/\">same cycle as in 2006<\/a>, in 2011\/12 but with even more buy in at the game level, and lots of education uses. Plus this time around we have services like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/\">Shapeways<\/a> to print with.<br \/>\nMore please \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.feedingedge.co.uk%2Fblog%2F2012%2F01%2F06%2Fanother-virtuous-loop-in-3d-printingmetaverses%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><div name=\"googleone_share_1\" style=\"position:relative;z-index:5;float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><g:plusone size=\"tall\" count=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/06\/another-virtuous-loop-in-3d-printingmetaverses\/\"><\/g:plusone><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a few years back now that we started to see applications that would print our digital 3d designs form Second Life out into physical form. Now the current king of user generated content in a 3d multi user virtual world toolkit\/game (metaverse) &#8211; Minecraft, is getting the same treatment. Eric Haines has created<br \/>\n            <span class=\"excerpt-readmore\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/06\/another-virtuous-loop-in-3d-printingmetaverses\/\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,5],"tags":[304],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3dprinting","category-metaverse","tag-minecraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1480,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}