Making a Surface From Contours

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#1

First off, let me say that I am very impressed with World Machine and just love the interface. That is ingenius.

Now, for my question.

I use Xara to create contour lines from scanned maps. This works for paper maps where I know ahead of time the heights each lines represent, etc. But, to make 3d maps, it’s a whole 'nother story.

It looks like I have to use grey scales to indicate heights, but what color of grey equals what difference in altitude? Then, I could color in the contours.

Or, is there a means to take a jpg or bmp or whatever format graphic of a set of contour lines and have WM create a map from that?

#2

Just color them with equidistant grey values.
You can always rescale the height map in wm using the Clamp device in Expand mode.

Maybe it’s even possible to create a map form isolines in WM… but not without a significant amount of trickery.
probably not

But also search the internet! There is probably a free tool out there to convert iso lines to height maps.

#3