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Once I had a good correspondence between new and old, I reversed the transformation, taking a modern elevation dataset and warping it into the space of the old map.
@mapbliss 2) Divide the lake prox raster by the sum of the two rasters; gives a 0–1 scale of how far you are along the path between the high and low points.
3) In PS, I flattened out the lake shapes, and then in Blender, I applied a little curvature to the ramp.
4) Done!
@rgdonohue It depends on what you think of as "large scale" — but these maps I hurriedly prepared for a class years ago seem to have been effective (and are now being used by others).
@TheMapSmith The noise, both before and after halftoning, is helpful. Otherwise things look a little too perfect and flat.
Ok, this is the last one I think, as there are probably other things I'm supposed to be doing. Changed the tile & palette for crop/grassland, added Chicago. Thanks again to @KenneyNL for the free tileset! https://t.co/2BKX8gr1wV
I was working on this map for a client, and then I wondered what it might look like if I made it in 1940.
Accidental art suitable for the season: the blood waters of Alaska.
(I was in the middle of applying a gradient map, and apparently Photoshop decided to start with a red-black scheme by default).
New in the portfolio: an airline map. Might also blog about its construction on some future day. https://t.co/yoSGs4g7lJ