A Breakthrough In Building The Earth Was Discovered.

[tryingblox]

I feel like imma be 50 years old and randomly hear about this project again. It will be completed. And I’ll end up checking it out and showing my kids lol

[Generlc_Human]

the fact that once this is completed, nobody will be able to explore it fully, is absolutely insane

[darkestccino]

What blows my mind is that people can construct buildings in Minecraft thousands of times faster than they can construct them in real life, and yet humanity has still made so many buildings in a couple thousand years that the task to replicate them all in Minecraft seems insurmountable. I get it that IRL builders have made buildings over a much longer period of time and are much higher in number, but it's still mind-boggling to imagine the time it would take to create every single building in a city, let alone the planet.

[cocobuddd]

I can't wait to visit my childhood neighborhood. This project is so personal to everyone.

[triklop_]

Just wait until 5% of the thing is done in 5 years, and then a AI comes along and completes the entire map in 3 days

[MemePiano]

Bro goes from a philosopher to a Minecraft builder within 10 seconds

[moneyboyreups]

As a programmer, this makes me really excited.

I'd love to see the tech behind it and it gives a lot of room for improvements.
If the program also logs your actions and isolates the model that you specified on google maps, you could create a dataset that includes the specific building from a 3d perspective, a score on how good the pregenerated building is compared to what you build manually and also let the program save the finished building after manual edits. This way, the program could interpret the manual adjustments and use it to further enhance pregenerated building quality on future models.

[joe-skeen]

Moving from 1 hour per building to one minute per building also opens up the opportunity to create a good set of training data for a machine learning algorithm. By next year you could have an AI good enough that you could click on a building, AI would generate it and show you a preview, you could tweak and click done. From one minute to one second.

[nathanfish]

a program like this wouldn't only be good for the BTE project, but for several other kinds of projects. imagine if it were released to the public

[schanulsiboi]

One thing that's probably going ti be a problem though: not every house has a 3D model in google earth, especially in villages. Also it probably will be difficult to get castles to work, even harder to get castle ruins to work, and there are a lot of them all over europe

[Rakool]

Bro just went" screw the humans, GET ME THAT CODE!"

[Frozd]

As a software engineer, making a program like that is definitely possible. Hell, I'd even volunteer.

[krambogaming]

I love how pippen went from hand mining 1, 000, 000 obsidian to being a philosopher building a planet in the same children’s game

[gabe]

As a data scientist you should just make an AI to automatically generate the earth for you in Minecraft. You already manually created tons of buildings in Minecraft to train the AI on

[ericchen]

5:33 My favorite subscribe plug by far from all the YouTube videos I've watched.

[TheLazyEngineer]

You are essentially generating an enormous labeled data set for various map features. This has to have some sort of monetary value. I suggest that you save/store all of your labels (answers to yes/no questions and builder settings for each building). You never know what companies may be interested in this kind of data. And it could make or break future funding for this project.

[noxmore]

One important thing is to make sure you get the UI navigation as fast and as smooth as possible, those little buttons will cause a lot of inconsistency and human error, slowing down time building.

[owencmyk]

You should be outlining the base of the building, not the roof. The roof will change with perspective but the bass is guaranteed to align with the terrain

Google maps and other map programs do have automatic outlines of houses and streets and stuff, as well as street view which shows the front of the house. The mapping could be used to generate a bunch of house positions at once, and you can enter the details manually. Or with a bit of machine learning, you could probably automatically assign specific details using streetview images of the house (though this would be difficult to implement)

[Emil_]

I really hope the program will be open source in the end.
I'm not a builder, but a dev and I'd be interested to take a look at the program potentially improving it and I'm sure I'm not alone. If the program is developed openly, there are dozens of devs that would love to contribute

[romangonzalez]

Honestly, if they’re able to finish the city centers of like, the 1000 largest/most famous cities, as well as most of the major landmarks, I think that would be more than enough to declare victory.