Hydrographic Lake Art

[GeoffSteer]

There are a few of threads here on that subject. Here’s a couple:

More Great Lakes!

A co-worker is leaving so the boss asked me to come up with something for a going away gift. I did two separate projects and let him choose the one he liked best. I’m really liking the down-cut spiral bits. Great Lakes on slab oak - lots of data prep. for this one: [image] [image] Lake Superior on pine - already had the bathymetry for this one: [image] [image]

3D Terrain Relief

I have a friend who invited us for the weekend to his lake house on Smith Mountain Lake, Va. While there, we went to a local boutique and they were selling a balsa wood 2.5D cutout of the lake for over $1000.00. While it was nice, I thought I could do better (opinion of course). So I went onto the EROS website at USGS where they host very nice topographic relief imagery of each state - and grabbed the Smith Mountain Lake area: [image] I then converted the image to grayscale in photoshop, a…