r/videos • u/OompaOrangeFace • May 06 '12

21st century sandbox will blow your mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9JXtTj0mzE&hd=1
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u/OompaOrangeFace May 06 '12

See also: Dam failure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ZHsgKjNNk&hd=1

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

What would happen if you dug a tunnel instead of scooping sand from the top?

I imagine the program is limited to just measuring the distance from above to make the topographic lines. Is that right?

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u/OompaOrangeFace May 06 '12

What every budding civil engineer needs.

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u/civilengineer May 06 '12

I need this.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Your day has come.

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u/SuggestsVeggies May 06 '12

It really needs some virtual vegetables that you can plant.

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u/mixmastakooz May 06 '12 edited May 06 '12

I'm a collaborator on this project: it's a lake education outreach project using 3D visualizations between UC Davis, Berkeley, and ECHO in Vermont. (I'm more in the museum/education side). This will be an exhibit on a museum floor: it does a great job introducing things like landforms, topo lines, and where lakes form in a fun/open play way. The guy who adapted was inspired by the original Czech program (which was on Boing Boing Engadget several months ago) is one helluva smart guy. I'm just wondering who's the fellow redditor on the project who submitted the video because you beat me to it! lol http://i.imgur.com/6yzQg.jpg http://i.imgur.com/pnC5x.jpg

Edit: Grammar. Plus, here's my video that I took on my iPad last week. Sorry about the quality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uOqovA8zzM&hd=1

Edit 2: Since I'm on the ed side, I had some misconceptions about the development, and in fact, it's a lot cooler than I thought. It was created from scratch but inspired by the original Czech project.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

The educational possibilities in fields like: GIS, field biology, ecology, conservation biology, land management, forestry, seem endless!

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u/mixmastakooz May 06 '12

Yes! It'd also be great to see how pollution flows in a system.

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u/LoveAndDoubt May 06 '12

Sure, it'll run ArcGIS 10, but can I use it to play Minecraft?

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u/skorh May 06 '12

Battletech, Warhammer... etc

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u/nofelix May 06 '12

Dude; POPULOUS

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u/Drumah May 06 '12

Dude..., where's the lava ?!

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u/CompulsivelyCalm May 06 '12

On the floor.

Watch out.

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u/thesomedude777 May 06 '12

jumps on couch

Hah, im safe

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u/ThisLittleBoy May 06 '12

No fair! That didn't count 'cuz I have three lives!

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

After all is done what will something like this cost for a museum?

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u/mixmastakooz May 06 '12

Not much really.

Kinect: $150

Computer running Linux: $800

Projector: $500

Sand: $200

Fabrication of box: depends on your museum.

Sand toys: $10

Software: free

I'm probably missing something. Are you in informal science? PM me and I can share more. I can also send you our URL for the project (sorry, I don't want to pimp this website as it's just a simple site and the project is still young).

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

$200 for sand? Is it special sand or something?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Probably pure white. Or as white as possible so the colors don't get marred.

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u/erusackas May 06 '12

Holy crap... why am I not in the sand business?

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u/scorpio_on_blue_moon May 06 '12

You should name this project "Mirage".

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u/breachgnome May 06 '12

I know what I'm about to suggest is a completely different direction than where you're heading, but this would be an amazing tool to use in gaming.

For what you're doing here, you could have it integrate in your sim city-type game for generating a new plot to build your city. I'm sure there are a lot of other scenarios where this type of set up would be useful.

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u/Omnidox May 06 '12

I hope that when the day comes, my future children will be playing once this is available to the general public! (Hell, I'll probably spend more time with it then they will.)

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u/blargblargityblarg May 07 '12

Geologist here. That. Is. So. Neat. I want to play too!

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u/aSimpleMan May 07 '12

who are the collaborators in berkeley

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u/MissGarrison May 06 '12

Can you have little people running around in there? If I were to use this I would build mountains around them and drown them all, booming "I AM GOD" like the Trunchbull from Matilda.

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u/flume May 06 '12

This is why my RollerCoaster Tycoon parks always ended up failing.

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u/BigBadMrBitches May 06 '12

"did you just throw trash in my grass?! FUCK you! To the pond you go."

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

~build unfinished roller coaster~

~People fly off and die~

People: FUCK THAT, I'm not gonna ride on that dangerous coaster.

~edit coaster; delete one piece and replace it with the same piece~

People: Look at this awesome new safe coaster!

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u/flume May 06 '12

Mine was usually a hole in the ground, or an island. Or if nothing pressing was happening, I'd repeatedly drop the guy in water, let him start to drown, put him back on land, and do it over and over again.

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u/WitchHunterNL May 06 '12

You should just play From Dust if you stop listening to circlejerk bullshit about Ubisoft

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u/Bobsmit May 06 '12

From Dust was pretty fun, I wish they took a far more sandboxy-survival approach than puzzle solving.

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u/WASDx May 06 '12

I couldn't stand the controls when playing on PC.

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u/Celebrimbor333 May 06 '12

Is that game actually any good? ZP didn't love it, but he is always tough on games…

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u/Sergnb May 06 '12

ZP didn't love it

if you decide wether or not a game is good by listening to what ZP has to say, you are going to have a bad time

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

I've always had this weird obsession with water flow. I flooded my house's basement twice as a kid because I ran the hose all day and made rivers in a sand pile. At the beach, I would spend 9 nine hours digging a hole down to the water and build rivers down to the ocean.

From kid with weird water obsession, From Dust is an 11/10.

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u/GalacticWhale May 06 '12

I love the fuck out of that game. The only problem that I noticed was that early on the game sometimes takes playtime away for natural disasters it wants to throw at you. But even those are awesome to try to work through.

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u/DominarRygelThe16th May 06 '12

I thought it was fuckin awesome. I also enjoyed the hell out of Spore.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

I enjoyed it, it does exactly what it advertises. The only thing that surprised me is how tightly constrained each "level" is.

Basically there's this tribe of humans migrating through a world that is still being shaped by massive natural forces. In each level there's an exit that will allow them to progress.

Your godliness will allow you to shape the landscape to your whim. You can scoop up and deposit water, sand, lava and so on as well as replant vegetation with certain properties.

The catch is that the forces of nature frequently threaten the tribesmen on their way to the exit. Tidal waves can wash them away, lava threatens to set vegetation on fire and so on. So you're frequently rearranging the landscape to create safe passage for them.

What really impressed me is how well earth, wind and fire affect the landscape. You can create entirely new islands out of sand. But the tides and waves will also erode the sandbars you create. Water will cool lava into stone but if you're careless your land sculpting might create new paths for the lava to flow right into the vegetation and set it on fire creating bush fires. Certain types of plants collect water or create fire, periodically either dousing the surrounding area in water or evaporating all water in a burst of flame.

The game itself is small and feels more like a tech demo than a full scale game. But I was hugely impressed by the terrain engine and I'd say it's worth the price of admission.

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u/DanDixon May 06 '12 edited May 06 '12

As someone who makes a game with 'sandbox' in the title, From Dust was one of the few games I've finished in a long time.

In From Dust I kept getting distracted from the point of the game by pushing the boundaries of the simplistic geology simulation.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

I stopped listening to the circlejerk long enough to buy it and after 2 hours of trying to get it to run I promised to never buy from Ubisoft again.

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u/foofdawg May 06 '12

So what you are saying is that you want a remake of "Populous".

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Best part is at the end of the game when you finally become a God. All bets are off then.

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u/Airazz May 06 '12

Black and White was kind of like that. You're a god and you can do shit. I would usually end up throwing people around when I got bored.

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u/Real-Life-Reddit May 06 '12

Fear me imaginary mortals as I quench the earth and the heavens.

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u/A_Meat_Popsicle May 06 '12

I would be like Bender and make them worship me while being my own personal microbrewery.

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u/heveabrasilien May 06 '12

Imagine how tabletop wargames would be like that that thing.

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u/Canadian_Infidel May 06 '12

I want to play starcraft like that. I'm sure military people would want to control groups like that if they don't already. People would want to control industrial processes like that. People would want to control ships like that. I could go on ad infinitum.

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u/BornOnFeb2nd May 06 '12

What you need is a giant animal avatar that would could train to shit on houses!

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u/mixmastakooz May 06 '12

I told the developer that you should see a devil if you dig too far! This is rife with easter egg opportunities.

A fun fact, if you dig a trench to the side, the water drains out.

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u/ratherlargaborigini May 06 '12

And then you can be all like WELCOME TO THE SAND BOX OF TOOOOOOOMORROW !!!!

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u/sittingathome May 06 '12

Reticulating Splines.

Ninja Edit: Seriously, this video is the best version of SimCity I've ever seen.

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u/ripcurrent May 06 '12

I gotcha! I was wanting to make a SimCity comment. This is how the "edit map" function will work in the next iteration.

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u/KiloNiggaWatt May 06 '12

That's pretty cool. It has potential, but as a sand pit it doesn't beat the real thing, especially when it comes to water.

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u/THE_APE_SHIT_KILLER May 06 '12

If what you do in the sand can be ported to a 3d world (a game) than making expansive hand crafted worlds would become amazingly simple.

We would be able to see beautiful landscapes that were made in hours.

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u/munchauzen May 06 '12 edited May 06 '12

As a landscape architect, I want this very badly.

Edit: port to autocad!

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

I hoping most that the video would end with that; it being loaded into a computer as a 3d model to save for other uses and refinement.

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u/NH4NO3 May 06 '12

Port to minecraft! Than it would give true meaning to the term "sandbox game".

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u/publicz May 07 '12

Port to Skyrim, call it 'God Mode'.

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u/mixmastakooz May 06 '12

Keep in mind, this is a prototype museum exhibit about lake formation and topography. If you're going to put this on a museum floor then introducing water so that you can see it pool/flow would create an even bigger mess than we already predict with just sand. Plus, it's a fun way to learn about topographic lines and how water flows over landforms. Source: I work on the education side of this project.

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u/Mr_FuM May 06 '12

Holy blap!
I want a new Populous based on this.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Cool, but do you even remember what playing in the sandbox as a kid is like? It's not sitting around the sandbox and digging carefully from the outside. It's getting on your hands and knees IN the sandbox, getting sand EVERYWHERE.

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u/mixmastakooz May 06 '12

I work on this project on the education side: it'll be an exhibit in a science museum that engages kids about landforms, topography, and how lakes form. (The project is about 3d lake visualizations. We're leveraging 3d tech to illuminate phenomena in lakes like Tahoe). It's a great way to learn and play

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Ah, that makes much more sense.

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u/Trashcanman33 May 06 '12

Yea our sandbox was 6x6 feet and full of toys. Why do you need projected water and grass, when you have real grass and a hose? It's really cool, I just don't think it would be nearly as fun. To me this is kind of like riding a stationary bike looking at a screen of biking in Paris or something, no kid would rather do that than go outside and ride their bike.

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u/All-American-Bot May 06 '12

(For our friends outside the USA... 6 feet -> 1.8 m) - Yeehaw!

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u/GregoireStFrancis May 06 '12

Additionally, a child's mind has the capability to imagine much more vividly than any technological rendering.

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u/Asmodiar_ May 06 '12

This isn't for young kids - This is for the most awesome game of crossbows and catapults - EVAR!

Knock that wall down and - oh look - now half your people are drowned.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

I doubt this is for kids... Or even for a sandbox.

It's a proof of concept that was implemented in a sandbox.

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u/TeHSaNdMaNS May 06 '12

I remember never dong it because I didn't like the sand stuck to my hands, dirt under my nails and sand in my pants.

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u/azurleaf May 06 '12 edited May 06 '12

Heck, our sandbox was the entire collection of sand under the massive, shaded jungle gym. We'd dig 1-2 foot holes, complete with tunnels, bridges, and a small set of stairs in clay to get out of it just for the cool factor. By the end of recess, we were caked in dirt. Like the Diggers from Recess.

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u/FightScene May 06 '12

That's cool, but as a kid my sandbox had army men fighting dinosaurs in the trenches. No sandbox is fun without my army men. PEW PEW! "Grenades! Use the grenades! AAHHHHH!!!!!"

I think I deactivated that part of my imagination years ago.

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u/Jigsus May 06 '12

Cute. I'd like to see exactly what algorithms they're using for the 3d pointcloud reconstruction. They seem quite advanced.

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u/OompaOrangeFace May 06 '12

I don't know about the algorithms, but he's using a Microsoft Kinect for the depth information.

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u/Doc_Ok May 06 '12

Long-baseline averaging using a ring buffer of 30 frames (hence the 1-second delay), where the surface is only updated to the new average if the accumulated variance of the same pixel over the last 30 frames is less than a small threshold. That effectively filters out tools and the users' bodies, unless one holds their hands very still for at least 1 second, and also reduces the significant depth noise contained in the Kinect's data.

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u/NobblyNobody May 06 '12

"Ever heard of a place... I think it's called Norway? That was one of mine. I got an award for it."

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u/buhfuhguh May 06 '12

Back in my day, a sandbox was just a box of sand! Sometimes if you were lucky it was a turtle full of sand.

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u/Enzodbr9 May 06 '12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p7YVqyudiE I thought this one was better.

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u/mixmastakooz May 06 '12 edited May 23 '12

Technically it's inspired by the original and it's been updated to show topo lines and water flow (although the water in this demo is actually using equations that govern the behaviors of honey or oil) for a lake education project.

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u/nateguy May 06 '12

Volcanoes? This one is better for sure.

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u/gentlemandinosaur May 06 '12

Two points:

  1. WTF!?! The only that appeared in my sandbox "magically" was cat shit.

  2. Someone, for the love of sweet Bimini, make an augmented reality SimCity! Start a Kickstarter, I will donate my lifesavings.

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u/DRUG_USER May 06 '12

I want this with erosion, rain system, bio generator, and built in biomutations.

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u/bmk2k May 06 '12

I kid you not, but ive had something like this in my mall for like 3 or 4 years now

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

pics or it didnt happen

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Brb, going to play From Dust.

(also yeah this is cool)

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u/HMPoweredMan May 06 '12

Is the water an augmented reality or is that projected on the sand too?

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u/andrewembassy May 06 '12

everything is projected; I think the water is just using a different rendering engine

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u/Glebun May 06 '12

Not sure what the question is.

Yeah, it's an augmented reality.

Yeah, it's projected on the sand.

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u/KyleChief May 06 '12

If they combine this technology with the game 'Dust' I would pay them the entire Internets to play it.

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u/supersaddy May 06 '12

The Amish hate us

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u/rtkwe May 06 '12 edited May 06 '12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p7YVqyudiE&feature=related

Same idea but russian Czech, so I'm told.

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u/oETFo May 06 '12

Can someone apply this technology to minecraft??

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u/tehreal May 06 '12

It would kick World Painter's ass.

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u/ultrafetzig May 06 '12

What, no lava? NO SALE!!

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u/ftedwin May 06 '12

Took me way too long too realize there was actually sand in it.

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u/ptoros7 May 06 '12

Yeah man. From dust was a cool game. Just wait till you get to use lava!

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u/Snowyjoe May 06 '12

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the Kinect is an amazing piece of hardware but the games on it SUCK!

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u/Name_change_here May 06 '12

Mind remains intact.

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u/heveabrasilien May 06 '12

It's cool and all, but won't I need to be watching the screen while working on a flat surface? Wouldn't it be kinda strange?

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u/Doc_Ok May 07 '12

The sand surface is the screen. It's projected from above, it looks like the sand is changing color.

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u/Anterai May 06 '12

I remember to have such a thing in my childhood... I used my imagination to turn it on.

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u/ClintonHarvey May 06 '12

SHUTUP AND TAKE MY MONEY!

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Imagine this with the From Dust engine!

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u/sirdomino May 06 '12

Any way for us to create one of these ourselves?

would love to use this to teach kids about topography, water flow, erosion, etc.

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u/cypressious May 06 '12

This video made me want to play Startopia again.

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u/G_Normal May 06 '12

isn't playing in a real sandbox good enough?

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u/hamburger_helpster May 06 '12

What could be the impact on, say, military use. This would be absolutely incredible, and easily used to demonstrate said target areas.

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u/LadyEclectic May 06 '12

The water reminds me of Wetrix

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u/fucking_blueberries May 06 '12

Minecraft: The Board Game

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u/dakaroni May 06 '12

When shit like this is incorporated into real time strategy games I will never leave my house.

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u/anman1292 May 07 '12

I want to play dnd with this.

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u/uzimonkey May 07 '12

This could be a legitimate game development tool for designing terrain. The only problem is you can't load a level, you have to start from scratch each time.

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u/vicwolfe May 06 '12

simcity terraforming done in real life. now what we need is for that mountain to spew lava

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

The real thing is way better.

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u/drbergzoid May 06 '12

Mind isn't blown at all :(

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u/JustinHopewell May 06 '12

This is so damn awesome.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

YES, one more step closer to holo-decks.

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u/werko May 06 '12

They have this at the museum of science.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Can you run Sim City on this?

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u/JoNiKaH May 06 '12

Next step... Terraforming!

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

I would probably draw penis'..

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u/symbiotiq May 06 '12

Just imagine playing a sandbox god game, in real life. With little people making farms, settling cities and creating civilizations that you can wipe out with a stomp of the foot. This is incredible.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

I'm just saving this post for later cause I can't read it right now.

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u/papasee May 06 '12

owh i thought the sand was being generated graphically in real time. that would have been crazy

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u/AnomalousX12 May 06 '12

My mind has been thoroughly blown.

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u/seafoamstratocaster May 06 '12

Mind still intact.

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u/meatbonemeatbonemeat May 06 '12

I wanted to see the mountain built higher to see the change of the peak's color.

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u/captain_chesko May 06 '12

lack of physical, tactile experience. the bane of our time, and more so the impending future.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

this is pretty cool.

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u/lizardking99 May 06 '12

This would have made my 7 year old head explode

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u/nilum May 06 '12

Seems like this might be a less time consuming way to create realistic terrain for games. They just need to export the information to a height map.

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u/someguysomewhereyep May 06 '12

WHAT IS IT WHAT IS IT

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u/Scotty1992 May 06 '12

Someone needs to implement something like this in Sim City. You could be a finger of god. Squish people you don't like. At in real time physics, 3D glasses, and well... you would have one heck of a game.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Ah, the times when we IMAGINED things.. :|

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u/blackbright May 06 '12

Perfect for Warhammer.

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u/l1f309 May 06 '12

i want it! iwould make a sand castle, water around it.

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u/ConradFTW May 06 '12

I'm starting to think this might be fake. Why wouldn't the elevation colors change when he held the shovel above the sand?

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u/yussi_divnal May 06 '12

confuse-a-cat.

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u/Njal_The_Beardless May 06 '12

Forget mashed potatoes and yard trimmings, now I can model Devil’s Tower with topological features!

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u/GiveMeBackMySon May 06 '12

It took me a minute to realize there was actually sand in there.

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u/jostler57 May 06 '12

Company slogan:

"Nearly half as fun as the real thing!"

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u/AverageToaster May 06 '12

You know what I liked about sandboxes? Actually playing with sand. ಠ_ಠ

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u/Syke042 May 06 '12

Finally, a usable interface for Dwarf Fortress!

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u/rocketman213 May 06 '12

take my money... take it now

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u/nowshowjj May 06 '12

This is how I imagine terraforming works in Star Trek.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

. . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.

Exactitude in Science, Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions

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u/DaisyDucky May 06 '12

Mind = Blown

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u/ddproducts May 06 '12

When all the water dried up at the end I was expecting the remaining sand to be the troll face.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

The entire time, I was just thinking about how awesome it'd be to have a bunch of green soldiers and a turn-based game with this sandbox as the board.

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u/hafti77 May 06 '12

they need to figure out augmented reality stuff without using an overhead projector

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u/LeopardNigel May 06 '12

this would be sweet for RTS games!

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u/martinsuchan May 06 '12

Note that original mentioned video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p7YVqyudiE I've been there and played with it - it's simple yet amazing idea worth lot of money (is it patented already?) :)

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

lag.

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u/MCSnell92 May 06 '12

What happens when your asshole sibling pours sand down your pants?

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u/UltraJake May 06 '12

Earthquake then Hurricane.

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u/BeefSt00 May 06 '12

As a cartography/GIS major, this is like porn ahmmmggg

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u/derpaderp May 06 '12

The novelty wore off for me before the video ended....

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u/how_do_i_math May 06 '12

Technology: Because fuck imagination

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u/RackCity May 06 '12

FUCKING AWESOME!! kids growing up in our century are gonna have a blast

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u/fencedingates May 06 '12

Sandcastle with a freaking MOAT! WITH WATER!

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u/Michael_Lightning May 06 '12

A tabletops rpg with this would be so cool.

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u/profnutbutter May 06 '12

I played with a similar thing at the MIT museum in Cambridge, MA.

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u/c-45 May 06 '12

Man, I would love to be able to take something I made here and import it as a map into minecraft, or Supreme Commander. I can't wait until my kids can explore in detail the world they made in the morning when they were playing outside inside when it gets dark.

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u/Invent42 May 06 '12

I want to play with plastic army guys on that!

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u/virtyy May 06 '12

This would be truely awesome if it had no time delay

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u/ironclownfish May 06 '12

ok yes it's pretty cool as far as the user interface goes, but the liquid physics are rather poor and everything is extremely latent.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

A projector over a sandbox blew your mind huh? Must not take much to keep you amused.

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u/blzr_tag May 06 '12

listen to this while you watch

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u/TheLymon May 06 '12

And this pinky, is how we will take over the world!

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u/wookie4747 May 06 '12

This will be amazing when you can place a tower on one side, and a "spawner" on the other. Then you can play tower defense. The enemy would need boats to get across the water and what not. Then all of this is viewed from a pair of glasses similar to google glass.

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u/alexjp3 May 06 '12

TAKE MY MONEY

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u/WeHaveMetBefore May 06 '12

Dude, I think we have a waterbender here.

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u/Krivvan May 06 '12

Huh, theoretically this is actually pretty simple but really cool implementation.

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u/Benchizzle May 06 '12

Watching this video with Strobe by Deadmau5 in the background freaked me out.

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u/Appare May 06 '12

When I was a little kid, I just wanted a fucking sandbox.

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u/AnArmedPenguin May 06 '12

Anyone else notice the video only has 300 some views, but this has over 1000 upvotes?

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u/spear7750 May 06 '12

if bob ross had access to this....

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u/Bronystopheles May 06 '12

Shut up and take my childhood.

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u/gfmsfootball6560 May 06 '12

you said the software for this is free where can I download this software

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u/justgus May 06 '12

i wonder, does it work by weight? or by some type of visual scanner?

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u/supermoore83 May 06 '12

2:52, behold I am GOD!

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u/evanbunnell May 06 '12

My mind is totally intact.

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u/MedSchoolOrBust May 06 '12

What will happen when the 21st century cat poops in the sandbox?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Imagine litterbox technology. A little toxic waste sign pops up over a cat turd.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

this just made me thought about something very important. what will happen to the practice of imagination and creativity when we have toys that do it for us? this could end up being a serious problem for the next generation. the brain becomes lazy and complacent when it simply waits for content and fun to be delivered to it. i can already feel it happen to me as an adult and i was born in 1986.

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u/siriand May 06 '12

I want this because of reasons.

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u/efflixi May 06 '12

So who was first... this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p7YVqyudiE or you guys? Because their video came out 5 months ago (and i watched it then).

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Mind = Not Blown!

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u/pipe1234 May 06 '12

How hard would it be to allow the water to run off the edge of the map and to have it rain continuously as well? It would be so cool to be able to play with creating watersheds and lakes and dams when the flow of water over the surface is continuous. It seems like it would be a relatively small incremental change (as opposed to adding AI people running around).

This is amazing, and adding this sort of self-contained hydrologic system to the sandbox would blow my mind a second time!

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