California

This image was rendered with the raytracer Persistence of Vision from the USGS's 1:250,000-Scale Digital Elevation Model data. This particular image was rendered on my 486DX2/66 Linux box in about 4 hours from 139 MB of raw compressed data. Further information on the rendering process (including pointers to larger pictures) is available here. The image was colored by height by the table below.

You may click on the image to zoom in, or you can download the entire 1800x1860 pixel image as either a 5.5MB compressed PPM image or a 1.5MB JPEG iamge.


Height (feet)ColorHeight (feet)Color
0 or lessBlue0 - 100Dark Grass
100 - 700Grass700 - 1200Dark Bisque
1200 - 5000Brown Grass5000 - 8000Gray 85
8000 - 15000White


Sam Shen <slshen@lbl.gov>
Last modified: Mon Dec 4 16:19:07 1995