Terrain Representation - Pennsylvania State University

Terrain Representation

Geog 467:

Applied Cartographic Design

Cindy Brewer

USGS CGB visit to class

Lab 3: Fishnet Plots and Traces of Inclined Planes (Ethan Jackson Lead)

Fishnet plot Traces of inclined planes

Lab 4: Photoshop Filters (Kase Hartog Lead)

By Sarah Layton

Lab 5: Terrain Sculptor from Bernhard Jenny et al. (Jay McGilloway Lead)

By Nick Maziekas

ArcGIS Hillshade Terrain Sculptor generalization

ArcGIS Hillshade Terrain Sculptor generalization

By Tim Haynes

Lab 6: Non-Destructive Multipliers in Photoshop

from Alex Tait (Sarah Layton Lead)

By Sarah Layton

By Andy Stauffer

By Ethan Jackson

Lab 7: Illuminated Contours (Nick Maziekas Lead)

By Bo Yao

Lab 8: Uniform Sky Illumination from Pat Kennelly (Claire Steiner Lead)

By Ethan Jackson

Three illumination directions Nine illumination directions

3 illumination directions 9 directions

By Tim Haynes

Lab 9: Slope, Aspect, Contours (Tim Haynes Lead)

By Ethan Jackson

Lab 9: Slope/Aspect Arrows from Pat Kennelly (Tim Haynes Lead)

By Ethan Jackson

Lab 10: Curvature (Joe Ritzman Lead)

By Sarah Layton

Lab 12: Realism (Andy Stauffer Lead)

By Kevin Sparks

Lab 13 Lab 13:

Texture Shading with Partial

Laplacian Filters from Leland

Brown (Evan Klauda

Lead)

By Claire Steiner

By Tim Haynes

By Tim Haynes

The final project

• Two locations

– One distinct terrain (stratified sampling of country)

– One common “strip” of Yellowstone terrain

• Two designs – serious and creative

• (Two scales)

By Ethan Jackson

By Kase Hartog

By Evan Klauda

By Rick Fourroux

By Sarah Layton

By Nick Maziekas

By Joe Ritzman

By Kevin Sparks

By Claire Steiner

By Jay McGilloway By Andy Stauffer

By Cory Helm

By Bo Yao By Tim Haynes

By Rick Fourroux

USGS – Central Nevada Location Small Scale – 1:500,000

By Ethan Jackson

By Evan Klauda

By Rick Fourroux

By Sarah Layton

Nick Maziekas

By Nick Maziekas

Joe Ritzman Mammoth Cave: Scale 1:100,000

By Joe Ritzman

By Kevin Sparks

By Claire Steiner

By Jay McGilloway

By Andy Stauffer

By Bo Yao

By Tim Haynes

By Tim Haynes