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    Wip Joining the bandwagon -- MiddleEarth

    might as well join in

    a test run of a few things to make a DEM

    by no means near final , just a quick project to help PROCRASTINATE working on the map of the planet Mercury
    a 15.8 Gig map 92,160 x 46,080 pixels

    I think it is safe to say that we all have seen the black map with red lettering in the back of LOR
    -- this map


    using this as a base for masks for mixing the few different types of artificial data
    a distance transform ( 32 bit Float)
    a plasma noise
    and direct filter on the mountains ( overlapping circle paint - Gmic "circle abstraction [ 32 bit float]" )

    then some eroding and one gets this
    -- 8 bit copy of the float normalized to 1,65535



    very basic 3d view in Blender

    close up on Mordor and MT. Doom
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    Nice work John.
    I will look forward to seeing this one progress.

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    Great start! This is quite interesting

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    Wow, this is interesting! Looking forward to seeing where you go with this.

    The Middle Earth challenge is certainly get some good and varied responses!
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    Oh another one, that's pretty cool

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    update

    new mesh ( displacement from a DEM)
    and a quick water-coloring of the base map as a texture ( an idea , debating a watercolor or photorealistic )
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    Lonely MT.

    Gates of Mordor and MT DOOM!!!!!

    over view
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    I feel a certain pride that I sort of inspired this little trend; the more Tolkien the better.

    3D makes a nice change. Looking forward to seeing how this progresses, Johnvanvliet.

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    Very impressive! The view on mordor looks fantastic.

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    an early photo realistic


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    Both the Lonely Mountain and MT. Doom play such a big role i made them a BIT TALL
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    the base image is coming along .Still a few areas that need work
    Then on to the labels ??? text on top ? or 3d rendered fonts ?
    -- rendering of the heightmap with the color map


    for some views i am thinking of 3d floating names ( think the Sci Fi show - Fringe )
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