Posts by Leonard Richardson

Historical Maps in Minecraft

by Leonard Richardson, NYPL Labs
May 8, 2014

At a recent internal hacking event here, NYPL Labs developer Paul Beaudoin recruited me into an interesting project: transforming one of the library's 20,000 digitized historical maps into the three-dimensional world of the building game Minecraft.

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