Joining the bandwagon -- MiddleEarth

[johnvanvliet]

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

[J.Edward]

Nice work John.
I will look forward to seeing this one progress.

[Meriba]

Great start! This is quite interesting

[ChickPea]

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!

[- Max -]

Oh another one, that's pretty cool

[johnvanvliet]

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

[Sarithus]

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.

[Abu Lafia]

Very impressive! The view on mordor looks fantastic.

[johnvanvliet]

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

[johnvanvliet]

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 )