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minus-squareTroy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down8·11 hours agoThis is a weird presentation. Was someone trying to make a minecraft mod or something?
minus-squarethree@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-29 hours agoTrue, there should be a standard for artists to keep them in line and stop them from being creative.
minus-square⛓️💥@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 hours agoWe 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.
minus-squareTroy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 hours agoWe have data at 5m resolution for free, or better. Source: am geoscientist
minus-squarehowrar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 hours agoMore like someone didn’t want to go through the extra work of smoothing things out.
minus-squareTroy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours agoIt’s interesting that it is smooth specifically in the x direction, but the y direction has more abrupt changes.
minus-squareLena@gregtech.eulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 hours agoAs @[email protected] says, touch some grass Now for the minecraft part, you might enjoy Terralith
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.
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
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.
As @[email protected] says, touch some grass
Now for the minecraft part, you might enjoy Terralith