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Thanks, Jeff. There's a weird trick that our brains play on us when the light comes from somewhere other than the north, the ridges and valleys look inverted.
by mparr4 6y ago
Thanks, Jeff.
There's a weird trick that our brains play on us when the light comes from somewhere other than the north, the ridges and valleys look inverted.
There's been some research on this and the consensus is that sunlight coming from the northwest is best for making the terrain appear "natural".
If you rotate the map 180, you'll see what I mean. The deep gully coming down Shastina looks like a ridge, for example.
While we are printing these on-off, there is a fair bit of work involved in generating the source images: generating hillshade layers, photoshopping the results, etc, so I'm afraid we can't do custom lighting and colors right now.
- jeffbee 6y agoInteresting. It seems like metastable illusions would be a problem for any lighting direction when the object is cone-shaped.