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cm0002@lemmy.world to Data is Beautiful@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

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    This is a weird presentation. Was someone trying to make a minecraft mod or something?

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      True, there should be a standard for artists to keep them in line and stop them from being creative.

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        This is dataisbeautiful, not randomstuffisbeautiful.

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          True, maps are not art.

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        Lol, this is just inaccurate as an elevation map

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      More like someone didn’t want to go through the extra work of smoothing things out.

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        It’s interesting that it is smooth specifically in the x direction, but the y direction has more abrupt changes.

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      We probably don’t have data for elevation at the resolution needed to generate a smooth mesh rather than towers. You could artificially smooth it out but that would be a less honest representation of the data.

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        You also have to consider computational resources for rendering it. The more detail you include, the more expensive it is.

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        We have data at 5m resolution for free, or better. Source: am geoscientist

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      As @[email protected] says, touch some grass

      Now for the minecraft part, you might enjoy Terralith

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