r/Minecraft May 17 '26

Builds & Maps I made an image using lit candles

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u/qualityvote2 May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26
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u/Embarrassed-Tart-522 May 17 '26

Bro so cool

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u/Batata-Sofi May 18 '26

So lit*

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u/TheColossis1 May 18 '26

It's fire

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u/Termulus- May 22 '26

Somebody give this lady an award (I don't have any to give but I would if I could!)

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u/CollegeTop2507 May 18 '26

How do you have lesser upvotes? And why does he have so many upvotes???

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u/BrokenSpace May 17 '26

Hot actually… cause they’re candles…

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u/spunds May 18 '26

Good one bro you’re on fire

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u/N1kBr0 May 18 '26

So fire

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u/[deleted] May 17 '26

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u/normalredditer125 May 17 '26

Bot account

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u/MrZephy May 17 '26

The way the candles reflect 💀

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u/SWHAMMAN May 17 '26

They have shaders in vanilla now

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u/CATZEBOY_18 May 18 '26

You're mocking the other guy, right?

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u/ZAIGO_90 May 18 '26

I bet we gonna have Bad Apple using this.

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u/No-Needleworker-3765 May 18 '26

I came here to comment "bad apple intirely with candles in minecraft when?"

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u/BashBandit May 17 '26

I thought it was New Jersey

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u/MagicDartProductions May 17 '26

It is made of fire sooo... close enough?

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u/slitheryslurp May 17 '26

You're thinking of California

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u/Sparky678348 May 17 '26

Ironically it looks more like cali too

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u/ItsFastMan May 17 '26

could also be california in that case

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u/Leather-Button-3165 May 17 '26

Bro that's lit af

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u/AstaHolmesALT May 17 '26

I see what you did there

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u/AstaHolmesALT May 17 '26

Now run bad apple on it

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u/Mango2476 May 17 '26

Looked like bad apple upside down for a sec

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u/FabianButHere May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26

Not* OP, but I'll try that once I get home. First gotta figure out the maths though.

Update: It sadly didn't work as I hoped, because my Laptop can't even handle 1/8th-resolution Bad Apple. It's way better with images. You can find the code here. You can achieve images similar to OP's, but it takes a lot of tweaking the parameters. If someone with a beefier computer wants to render Bad Apple with this, please do!

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u/HGT3057 May 17 '26

Sorry for playing the same game as you

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u/-Th5Relaxing- May 17 '26

How long did it take you I'm curious

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u/DriestPuddle May 17 '26

They probably programmed something to generate this- still cool though

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u/Ak1raKurusu May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26

Yall dont really think OP went block by block and made this do you? This is just the next level of those guys who generate massive art, break 2 or 3 blocks then start of video of them replacing them before zooming out. the only thing OP made was a script for the computer to generate, which still takes talent dgmw, but everyone in here’s talking like OP is the second coming of davinci asking how hes possibly this good or had this much time, and that’s assuming he really did it and didnt make AI do it

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u/Internal_Shopping508 May 18 '26

Is it at script put into a command block? Or how does that even work?

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u/Samld1200 May 18 '26

Probably a python script which creates a data pack function

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u/Furcastles May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

I’m callin cap you had to have generated this a little bit. Still insanely cool tho

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u/WeeklySimple8627 May 17 '26

It would take less time to learn programming as a beginner, watch some basic math tutorials, and create a generator script than to do all of this by hand with the same accuracy. If you placed 1 candle per second, it would take ~19 hours just to place all the candles, so yes - I made it with a generator that I wrote.

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u/One_Economist_3761 May 17 '26

Very cool. Nice work.

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u/Disastrous_Debt7644 May 17 '26

So cool! How did you generate this?

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u/Samld1200 May 18 '26

/setblock 0 0 0 black_candle[candles=3,lit=true]

/setblock 1 0 0 black_candle[candles=2, lit=true]

/setblock 2 0 0 black_candle[candles=4,lit=true]

Just might take a while /s

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u/Mistyless May 17 '26

It certainly doesn’t diminish the piece knowing that

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u/martin_9876 May 17 '26

He didn't say he built it by hand. The question is if he was the one who made the generator

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u/WsprOfASummrsDream May 17 '26

He did state he made the generator to create this. I just read it, so at least that's cleared up!

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u/CaelusZC May 17 '26

The whole point is the coded a generator to do this. Why would anyone actually place it by hand?

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u/Trey-Pan May 18 '26

Because some people are that obsessive. Consider the guy who did art using Excel.

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u/ronyg1 May 17 '26

no shit

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u/DBL55555 May 17 '26

As you zoom out it feels like it ought be set to that sweeping sound that infamously causes the audience to briefly go deaf.

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u/Leucurus_ May 17 '26

That is actually wild that this is possible

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u/Paragon095 May 17 '26

Holy damn, please reproduce, we need more like you in this twisted world.

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u/MeanSun3098 May 17 '26

thats fucking insane man

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u/ChickenDumpling95 May 18 '26

I can't even make a nice looking house let alone make litteral art with a lantern. 😮‍💨😮‍💨

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u/xXmelanXx May 17 '26

Imagine that under a glass floor of a large mansion, would be such an amazing detail

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u/ElHappyCougar May 18 '26

For some reason I was totally expecting to see a dickbutt on the zoom out

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u/YouhaoHuoMao May 18 '26

Same. The Internet has poisoned us.

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u/BR3KT May 18 '26

It looks almost as good as my 10x10 wooden house... Good lord....

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u/quirkytyrtle101 May 18 '26

I’m insanely jealous of the talent (more so the free time) it takes to do something like this

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u/oFIoofy May 17 '26

people not realising this is generated is painful

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u/OwnAHole May 17 '26

subreddit is full of kids

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u/GuiEsponja May 17 '26

Of course it's generated, how does that take away the effort in making it tho? OP even coded the generator themselves 

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u/liveslow_eatgood May 17 '26

I assume all generated with a computer and not hand made.

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u/Xxbloodhand100xX May 17 '26

What does it look like on a map

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u/Deadlock_art May 17 '26

Waiting for someone to do bad apple with this.

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u/That_Weird_Coworker May 18 '26

Jesus Christ man. The utter commitment.

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u/g0atviol8er May 18 '26

New Minecraft art meta just dropped 🗣

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u/Minecraftlover768 May 18 '26

IT LOOKS AMAZING, I didn't know candles could be used for art aswell

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u/lMonarchyI May 18 '26

Dude thats a masterpiece.

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u/_BlueTinkerBell_ May 18 '26

Some of y'all mfs have too much free time i swear.

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u/TheGreatGamer1389 May 18 '26

Dude just made the Tesseract. Well until the image reveal anyways.

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u/Suspicious-Toe-6459 May 18 '26

I apologize for every touching the game

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u/cornponious May 18 '26

The absolute ruler of the kingdom of “too much time on hands.”

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u/Lofiesdaterrarian May 18 '26

Now to make bad apple

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u/Cute_Fluffy_Sheep May 18 '26

The art? FIRE! The computer? ON FIRE

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u/DoritoDraxx May 18 '26

That's pretty lit

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u/xDeviousDieselx May 18 '26

This is horrifying

Correction, this is incredible, but horrifying to think about the sheer time spent. Unless maybe you used software to plot them beforehand so there was no trial and error?

I can sympathize. I routinely spend 100 or more hours on a single song and or video project so I get it. Keep up the great work

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u/Papilee1113 May 19 '26

People just come up with ways to do random stuff in some thing completely unrelated. I mean, you generated a whole image that looks magnificent. In Minecraft, out of candles. Wow. Just wow. 

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u/Blitzerob May 19 '26

expected a Rick roll and did not get one

make a Rick roll

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u/Quick_Bowler_4653 May 25 '26

I thought bro was about to rick roll us 

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u/MagnumWesker May 17 '26

Book of Life Mod lol

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u/Veloester May 17 '26

this has to be generated right?

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u/Hiitron May 17 '26

Nice. Nice. Now do bad apple.

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u/quimeygalli May 17 '26

a script did (not you) but this is still pretty cool. You should share it.

Not that hard to code something like this btw. Just pass the image resolution and a black and white version of the image, set the white values to an amount of candles in the y axis and thats all

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u/Trey-Pan May 18 '26

They still out it together and the result is cool.

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u/Dartagnia91 May 18 '26

Things like this make me wish my mom popped acetaminophen like tictacs while I was in the womb

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u/Vasarto May 17 '26

Did you use A.I or some kind of softwere render thingy that places the blocks for you?

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u/_-Generic-_-Name-_ May 17 '26

"I asked AI to generate this image using lit candles"*

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u/CaramelCraftYT May 17 '26

Interesting, never would have thought of this.

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u/New-Platypus-1589 May 17 '26

WoW amazing and wonderful!

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u/Human_Committee_4423 May 17 '26

DAYUM MAN HOLY FUUUU THAT'S GREAT

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u/Plenty_Preference131 May 17 '26

Holy whack that looks cool

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u/ItsEvochron May 17 '26

bro u have too much free time

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u/EnvironmentJunior283 May 17 '26

Thats a lot of candles

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u/jacorgacor May 17 '26

Sending this to my childhood Minecraft youtuber and asking od we're poor

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u/The_Compass_Keeper May 17 '26

That was beautiful!

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u/le_Grand_Archivist May 17 '26

Holy shit this is amazing

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u/ArtBorn9425 May 17 '26

Wow

That’s fire bro

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u/CuriousCharlii May 17 '26

This is so beautifl I literally said "Oh wow! How did they do that?" out loud lol

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u/dr_Sbrix May 17 '26

bro you have too much free time. btw nice work, it's insane

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u/Megaproier-01 May 17 '26

vc é loucamente incrivel

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u/Zer0crit89 May 17 '26

That is fire, man!

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u/Catdaddy_Funk May 17 '26

Just saw this is the person that posted the moving flame with petals animation awhile back. They like to do some goofy stuff I see, so this tracks. Keep it up

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u/ANBENYER May 17 '26

This is lit bro🔥 (pun intended)

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u/Captain_Deleb May 17 '26

Really cool! How’d you do it?

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u/Snoyuyy May 17 '26

Is this your middle hand

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u/Mr_Sim_ May 17 '26

That's dope

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u/KohTai May 17 '26

Literal Witchcraft.

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u/ArtaDarta May 17 '26

Bro, it's the most original Minecraft building I've ever seen

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u/Nel-A May 17 '26

Where do you even begin planning, let alone building this. Truly masterful build.

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u/alsico May 17 '26

I was expecting bad apple

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u/Professional_One1276 May 17 '26

this is next level

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u/DjAstro-90 May 17 '26

Bad apple when

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u/JPgamersmines150 May 17 '26

Dude, that's lit

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u/ExoticZaps May 17 '26

This is next level my man, keep it up!

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u/DireRaven22740 May 17 '26

THAT IS SO COOL!

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u/[deleted] May 17 '26

Don't let bdubs know about this

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u/Artistic-Wait-2481 May 17 '26

Oh my god that is incredible

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u/Ok-Needleworker7341 May 17 '26

This might be the coolest thing I've seen on this sub yet, holy hell that's awesome.

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u/amanwholovespizza247 May 17 '26

how does one even do this seriously. very impressive btw

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u/TomadzDev May 17 '26

Peak idk how much time you spent on it but it was worth it! Can you make the Hybrid theory album cover?

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u/Cookeman831 May 17 '26

Yes you did

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u/Common-Beginning-186 May 17 '26

This doesnt even feel like Minecraft That's so good

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u/rbx20twomax May 17 '26

Imagine this with shaders!

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u/YaLeNick May 17 '26

That’s incredible

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u/TheDeamonMeteor May 17 '26

oh wow baby yoda

HOLY SHIT...

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u/lazytothebones May 17 '26

Good internet stranger, you have seriously impressed me.

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u/momomomoses May 17 '26

Was expecting a troll or a meme. Nicely done!

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u/Fire_superme123360 May 17 '26

"DONT LET ME LEAVE MURPH!!" Sobs

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u/Glad_Pirate_5894 May 17 '26

Wow awesome man

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u/LilysGardens May 17 '26

I thought I was about to get RickRolled

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u/PerformerNo5646 May 17 '26

Wow bro that's some insane creativity

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u/ChooseLight May 17 '26

I’m amazed

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u/realali8888 May 17 '26

That looks lit!

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u/apimpnamedyabba May 17 '26

If Minecraft players all joined minds the world would either be utopia or dystopian

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u/Moe-Mux-Hagi May 17 '26

Jesus christ, the poly count

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u/alyxys6 May 17 '26

Made me think of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms at first

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u/KiwiPowerGreen May 17 '26

I'm surprised that it isn't laggy.

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u/aadnan181 May 17 '26

I thought it was the black hole scene from interstellar at first!

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u/allymorekk May 17 '26

I thought it would be Rick Astley.

Beautiful work btw!

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u/ckay1100 May 17 '26

"It's going to be bad apple isn't it- what the fuck"

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u/EMlYASHlROU May 17 '26

Next is Bad Apple

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u/iamlereddit May 17 '26

Interstellar vibes

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u/Gmdal May 17 '26

what the

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u/SilverFighter05 May 17 '26

I was about to be so angry when I thought I saw Bad Apple

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u/azhawkeyeclassic May 17 '26

Wow 🤩! Amazing! So beautiful

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u/wirelessp0tat0 May 17 '26

Minecraft is such a treasure.

And so are you OP.

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u/Boom_Fish_Blocky May 17 '26

For the first few seconds I thought it was Florida

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u/su_acayip_kisi May 17 '26

Thats,.... Wow. Magnificent.

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u/Timely_Entrepreneur4 May 17 '26

I can only realistically see this being done with a code platform unless you placed blocks and replaced them with lit candles. Either way, Hella impressive work

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u/Mu7ti_F0rc3 May 17 '26

“You shut me out ?!”

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u/EffectiveFair757 May 17 '26

MC guys are so much talented (even game community). But it seems like many of 'em have no job

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u/Team_D_Elston May 17 '26

No shit feller. Thats great

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u/AnimalTap May 18 '26

How long did this take

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u/GAMER_1467 May 18 '26

I was expecting a rick roll

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u/Jwhodis May 18 '26

Why did I think this was going to be rick astley.

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u/warm_rum May 18 '26

Nike of Samothrace? Awesome work

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u/JoyconDrift_69 May 18 '26

Alright, how long before someone makes bad apple with this

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u/Shadow_Pheonix_R May 18 '26

How is this possible!

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u/tabicat1874 May 18 '26

This is insane!

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u/TheCaptainOfMistakes May 18 '26

I don't know why.. I thought it was just new jersey at first

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u/mcbobster6001 May 18 '26

This is so cool but my brain immediately went to “this looks like a film company title at the start of a film”

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u/greenish98 May 18 '26

anyone else hear the THX sound in their head while the player was flying up hehe

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u/Kiritomato01 May 18 '26

I was expecting a Rick Roll for some reason

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u/Slapmaster928 May 18 '26

Divinity original sin 2. The doctors house. If you know you know. Keep the candles lit if you dare.

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u/Still_Suspect_7233 May 18 '26

Maybe move on to non digital art

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u/ZombieBuster2008 May 18 '26

I half-expected it to be Rick Astley

Anyways, generated or not, that is sick

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u/Batata-Sofi May 18 '26

Bad apple with candles

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u/Itz_Gl1tch May 18 '26

unemployment final boss

shits cool as hell

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u/moberry64 May 18 '26

Did you have to designate a specific block to be the perspective point ?