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Comment by wxce | Hacker News Reader

Beautiful, I wonder what kind of craziness would be possible with this, at scale. Whole buildings being printed and assembled block by block. Real life Minecraft, if you will

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Are procedurally generated rollercoasters a thing?

Blame! is a manga where in the future humans have robots that build, and are controlled by people with Net Terminal Genes. Something happens and those humans die leaving the robots building non-stop procedurally for eons. By the time our protagonist moves about in the world, its said the Megastructure reaches from Earth all the way to Jupiter.

Also, the movie Fracture features these cool marble machines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-v6E9H6nh0

Back when movies were made with unique good scripts and not marvel slop.

Where did they get the material for it?

They never really specify beyond the planets themselves being consumed wholesale. Some of the structures are just hollow spheres: https://preview.redd.it/7tvkbj5bp2hb1.jpg?width=1951&format=...

Also conceivable that meteors etc crash into the megastructure providing it with endless resources.

There are serious efforts and working prototypes of printing houses. This works surprisingly well, allows construction in days instead of months, and shows a lot of promise. It’s a great rabbit hole to fall into!

Does it though? I have yet to see a 3D printed house that would be cheaper than SIP panels.

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