Temple of Brad Pitt - Minecraft edition

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by Geodesic Templars (programming by Jacob J.)

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Burning Man 2020 did not take place in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. Instead, several virtual versions of Burning Man were created online based on different 3D technologies. Disorient participated in a couple of those worlds while Geodesic Temple decided to focus on the Minecraft version.

We used the 2019 model of TOBRIT so we would have a basis of comparison for what we would create online. We decided to translate the physical materials literally to Minecraft materials. A few questions came up. How do we best convey the idea of TOBRIT? How big do we make the temple in Minecraft? We made it as big as the server could handle. How do we make it efficient and reduce the load on the server?

Porting the model from Sketchup to Minecraft requires a few steps. Information is often lost and/or added when going from one format to another (skp > dae > obj > etc.) which eventually resulted in added geometry to the Minecraft model. So we did like every good templar would do. We went in and fixed it by hand. The experience of fixing TOBRIT manually in Minecraft was a remarkable experience. Deep diving in the Minecraft world, working on a piece which we had created in the physical world a year ago was both demanding and rewarding in unexpected ways.

Here are a few screen grabs of the evolution of the Temple of Brad Pitt in Minecraft.

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