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[Picture] Lighthouses of the Great Lakes (files.catbox.moe)

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Source: Copernicus DEM, OSM Lighthouses and Lighthousefriends.com

Tools: Blender, QGIS, Global Mapper, Photoshop

Description: Within Blender the author placed light sources on top of all the lighthouse points data to create a map with glow and shadow across the 3d surface model. Check out other examples on the author website: https://visualwallmaps.com/

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

This reminds me of cosmological maps of distant quasar groupings, making structures much larger than theory can currently explain, like the Sloan Great Wall, or the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall.