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cm0002 @lemmy.world

1mo ago

US elevation

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(Highly exaggerated)
- Nuh uh, I can totally see the Rockies from my front yard in Minnesota.
Continental US Elevation
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.
  
  This is dataisbeautiful, not randomstuffisbeautiful.
  
  Lol, this is just inaccurate as an elevation map
- 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 @HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com says, touch some grass
  Now for the minecraft part, you might enjoy Terralith
Heh Ozrark "mountains"

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