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Nuh uh, I can totally see the Rockies from my front yard in Minnesota.
Continental US Elevation
Heh Ozrark "mountains"
This is a weird presentation. Was someone trying to make a minecraft mod or something?
True, there should be a standard for artists to keep them in line and stop them from being creative.
Lol, this is just inaccurate as an elevation map
This is dataisbeautiful, not randomstuffisbeautiful.
True, maps are not art.
This map could have been beautiful but to me, it's way too cluttered and the shadows are too strong making it hard to see the "data" unless you really zoom in.
It would be cool if this was an interactive site where you could rotate the camera.
Took you a whole day, but you finally made a worthwhile comment 👍
More like someone didn't want to go through the extra work of smoothing things out.
It's interesting that it is smooth specifically in the x direction, but the y direction has more abrupt changes.
what do you mean? it's clearly made up of square pillars, and thus only "smooth" in the upwards direction
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.
We have data at 5m resolution for free, or better. Source: am geoscientist
You also have to consider computational resources for rendering it. The more detail you include, the more expensive it is.
As @HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com says, touch some grass
Now for the minecraft part, you might enjoy Terralith