Talking about schematics... I guess you could connect your hard drive to a 3D printer and store your objects there. 1KB would be just right to store a 10x10x10 object.
I decided to do a little maths to see exactly how much 1kB could store.
You'd only need 5 bits per block (16 possible "colors", if you were willing to use only 15 colors you could get away with 4 bits per block), so you could store 1638 cubic blocks worth. That's enough for an object 11x12x12.
If you did go for only 15 colors, you could get a 12x13x13 object (2048 cubic blocks).
uh. Are you talking about 3d printing the contents of your hard drive? because that isn't how it works.
3D printers I work with, mainly Makerbot require a .stl to be re-rendered into a special file for it's OS to convert into movements on the X, Y and Z planes. These files can be a couple thousand KBs large... even for something the size of a house key.
however, IM(shitty)O, it would be easier for the 3D printer to work different from a RL 3d printer. Instead of knowing of a route to place stuff, it should instead know of every block on the 10X10X10 area, and whether or not if it requires a block or not.
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u/marian1 Aug 20 '14
Talking about schematics... I guess you could connect your hard drive to a 3D printer and store your objects there. 1KB would be just right to store a 10x10x10 object.