A Question of Scale

[Midgardsormr]

Alright, so since I'm getting serious answers anywhere from 5 to 40 miles across, I'm probably safe in calling it ten miles.

Although once the suggestion that its a cosmological event got in my head, I'm having a hard time seeing something other than nebula in it. (I think, though, it's safe to say that I wouldn't describe a gas density field as "terrain.")

Thanks for the input, everyone. The lack of a scale clue was deliberate; I didn't want to influence the evaluation with anything other than the mountain itself.

[Sigurd]

The picture obviously highlights the center. My tendency is to treat the dark area as a big obscure element. I would determine the scale based on the size of the flat bit on the middle hill\mountain. Marked with an X on the map.

What the scale is would depend on what we're looking at. I think the hills are really steep if we are looking at something beyond a dozen miles, but not impossible. How you draw trees etc would be a better indicator for scale. They could also cover up elements that look out of place at a large scale.


The attached jpg has my thoughts.

Sigurd

[Badger]

Is that a Kermit the Frog hand puppet??

[RobA]

Now I see it -

A fish!

-Rob A>

[Sigurd]

Looks more like a cthulhu crocodile....


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[Robbie]

Oh look, a sailboat!

(Name that movie)

[GlassSphere]

Well looking at it it depends, to me it can have two scales.

The dark green area has a nice varied texture that can make it two things

1: it's the natural texturing of a forest casting shadows on itself from above, the scale would be about 2 miles across.

2: It's the natural texturing of a mountain/hill casting shows on itself, the scale would be about 12 miles.