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Are you looking at the specific mountain range shapes too, or simply the overall gist of the ball-like part? I wonder if it could be 3D printed with reasonable
by themodelplumber 4y ago
Are you looking at the specific mountain range shapes too, or simply the overall gist of the ball-like part?
I wonder if it could be 3D printed with reasonable precision to suit your needs. I'd look at shapeways, and if you can't find it maybe somebody can 3D model it for you first.
https://www.shapeways.com/marketplace?tag=earth https://www.shapeways.com/marketplace?tag=earth
- soneca 4y agoBoth. The overall shape and the mountains and ocean deeps. From your link, there is this "Topographic model" (https://www.shapeways.com/product/Z4BFMJN63/topographic-earth?optionId=56094031&li=marketplace https://www.shapeways.com/product/Z4BFMJN63/topographic-eart...), which is close, but it still seems to assume a perfectly spherical overall shape (which I think it is incorrect).
- brianwawok 4y agoHow are you going to perceive the .01% difference in height vs width of the earth? Are you planning to use calipers to study it?
- soneca 4y agoI assumed the difference was more than that. So apparently the premise of my question was wrong. The topographic model seems to be enough for what I want
- simantel 4y agoGenerally when you say those very lumpy models of the Earth, they've exaggerated elevation differences by many multiples. On Wikipedia there's an image with elevation exaggerated 10,000x: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoid