alt Hacker NewsI think the point that might've been lost here is that Art (and this is Art) is not supposed to be about the destination but about the journey.
The whole magic of someone doing this is someone doing this.
No one did this.
And there is no utility in it either. No one needs a 1:1 scale Minecraft map of Switzerland for anything.
So the whole thing is just an empty husk of an idea implemented in a way that shows lack of understanding why this niche of content existed in the first place.
Replies
“No one did this … the whole thing is just an empty husk of an idea“
If you think it’s easy enough that “no one” made it, why not voxel-ize a location yourself to test your hypothesis? I imagine it wouldn’t take but moments of your day to fire off the prompt “Build New Jersey out of voxels”.
Based on your comment, it sounds like you believe that’s the sum total of work the author put into it.
Art is subjective, you not liking it doesn't mean it is bad. You just do not like it and that is ok.
> The whole magic of someone doing this is someone doing this.
Somebody did do this. They used a tool and created something which did not previously exist.
> there is no utility in it either. No one needs a 1:1 scale Minecraft map of Switzerland for anything.
There isn't any utility for a lot of stuff but we do things for various reasons.
Is the author did this purely out of curiosity or for fun, is it bad because it wasn't done painfully.
> empty husk of an idea implemented in a way that shows lack of understanding why this niche of content existed in the first place
It's implemented that way because that is the point, to show it is possible. These kind of responses always come off as gatekeeping. Somebody created something new and it is a bad thing?