Renders

Country Map

Blender
Python
GIS

An illustration of what you can do with satellite height maps.

Relief map of France, with lowlands in blue and high mountains in red.

This was a very fun project, took me a day, but basically played around with satellite height maps and rendered different countries, sometimes in different styles. The France picture is actually colored with the heights and some threshold values.

Relief map of Australia.

A map of Australia

Relief map of Italy, with Sardinia and Sicily.

A map of Italy

Relief map of Italy seen from a low angle at sunset, casting long shadows.

A map of Italy seen from sea level