diff --git a/content/sundries/a-thoroughly-digital-artifact/index.md b/content/sundries/a-thoroughly-digital-artifact/index.md index bdae7b2..94974b1 100644 --- a/content/sundries/a-thoroughly-digital-artifact/index.md +++ b/content/sundries/a-thoroughly-digital-artifact/index.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ title = "A Thoroughly Digital Artifact" slug = "a-thoroughly-digital-artifact" date = "2023-01-19" -updated = "2023-01-20" +updated = "2023-01-21" [taxonomies] tags = ["3dprinting", "CAD", "GIS", "CNC", "art", "sundry", "proclamation", "research"] +++ @@ -500,10 +500,10 @@ miles tall; the actual height is a little less than that, but that's OK, the arg strongly at lower height. That means the ratio of height to length is 3/700, or 0.0043-ish. If you had a physically accurate topographic carving of California that was a foot long, the tallest -peak on the carving would be 0.0043 feet high, which is about 1/200th of an inch, or about 0.13 -millimeters. You'd probably be able to tell with your fingers and maybe even your eyes where Shasta was, -and see that there was a faint line from the Sierra Nevadas, but that would be it. That's why it's -so hard to see the details in the raw elevation data geotiff. +peak on the carving would be 0.0043 feet high, which is about 1/20th of an inch, or about 1.3 +millimeters. You'd probably be able to see and feel where Shasta was, and see that there was a faint +line from the Sierra Nevadas, but that would be it. That's why it's so hard to see the details in +the raw elevation data geotiff. In order to be able to see any detail, and to meet expectations about what a topographic carving is supposed to look like, the height of the highest peaks needs to be scaled up by something like