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Evaluating the effectiveness of illuminated and shadowed contour lines

Creator:

Eynard, James D.

Abstract:

Illuminated contour lines, where line width and color are varied based on an angle of illumination, date back to the mid-nineteenth century, but their effectiveness compared to conventional contour lines has not been fully examined. Currently, illuminated contour lines are not widely used in computer-based cartography because they are not...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
Improving the representation of large landforms in analytical relief shading

Creator:

Marston, Brooke E.

Abstract:

Relief shading is the most common type of cartographic relief representation for print and digital maps. Manual relief shading results in informative and visually pleasing representations of terrain, but it is time consuming and expensive to produce. Current analytical relief shading can be created quickly, but the resulting maps are...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis