Topographical overlay

My most recent project Is based off of LIDAR scans of the topography in California's Napa Valley. The LIDAR files had to be converted into gray scale to be used as a displacement map on a high density mesh. Using a mixture of LIDAR height data and satellite images i was able to model the buildings. I'm quite happy the way it turned out!

I printed it out in two sizes one small and one large at .05mm layer height. The larger had a few under-extruded layers but that just means a little bit extra touching up by hand. I use a mixture of sandpaper, files and occasionally a heated hobby blade to make my models look nicer. The next step is to paint them and add the trees in the right place by looking at the satellite images.

Hope you enjoy the pictures! More will come when i paint them!

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Left view model

Right view model

Small Version

Large version