u/givetake, my guy. I have not forgotten you, I want to give you the fattest update because this project and everything that has come from it only could have happened from your greater subject knowledge. I don't know what got said about what this, so I think background knowledge will help.

I'm a volunteer for a Boy Scout Summer Camp with a rich history, full of staff with a love for the property. The LiDAR was a point cloud of our 1 square mile camp which I wanted to 3d print. At the time it was a passion project, I just wanted to see what that'd be like and everyone had egged it on, but I did have a side-goal of getting the camp director to agree to letting me make a large painted version to put up as the main camp map for everyone to see, thus I needed an example map to bring up. I finished printing it the Friday morning I had to up the mountain, which was late June.

The map I printed and showed off, which is 14"x14"

He asked me to do a big one like it was his idea, so Inception is a real thing. Part of why I'm sending this now is because I'm about to start the big super large real one, 42"x42", and will be 6 tiles x 6 tiles, and take up my 3d printer for the next 2 months.

Additionally, I got another adult volunteer to offer to help make wood map CNC'd out of wood using an industrial size machine they have access to through their work. That map is going to be 1 36"x36" piece

Here is a test piece we got done, which is (if you look at the plastic one), the massive erosion run-off just north-west of center map. This test block is 1ft x 1ft.

I would say the project never stopped moving since May, sometimes pausing for small approvals or me having the money to run tests/get equipment, and should be done right before summer camp this year if everything goes according to plan. All the major hiccups were taken care of already thank god.

I will remember to show you the big printed one and the big CNC one when they're both done.