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Zach Levitt edited this page Sep 20, 2022 · 14 revisions

Hillshades with Pyramid Shader

Screen Shot 2022-09-18 at 9 51 47 PM

Pyramid Shader is a free application for visualizing elevation data developed by Bernhard Jenny, Charles Preppernau and Jim Eynard.

Download and install

To install, first visit the website for Pyramid Shader and download the Java JAR file. There is also an option for Windows exe file.

To run Pyramid Shader locally, you must first install Java 8.

How to use

To open the Java application, run the following line from your terminal: Java -jar PyramidShader.jar

Data format: Pyramid Shader accepts ESRI ASCII files, which you can convert to in QGIS or using this GDAL command: gdal_translate -of AAIGrid INPUT_FILENAME.tif OUTPUT_FILENAME.asc

Scaling

  1. Edit -> Scale Grid Values
  2. Vertical Exaggeration for Shading

Generalization

  1. Landforms removal - level of blurring
  2. Details removal - amount of detail gone

Visualization

  1. Exposition Color
  2. Bivariate Color
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