Diffuse Illumination

When can we expect this to be implemented into any commercial software?

The image above is from Patrick J. Kennelly and A. James Stewart. A Uniform Sky Illumination Model to enhance Shading of Terrain and Urban Areas. Cartography and Geographic Information Science (2006) 33: 21-36.



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Music this week: The song 7/1000 by Voltadomar, The song Daniel by Bonnie 'Prince' Billie and Tortoise and the Sleeping People album...The last two acquired at reckless records in Chicago...a great record store.

33rd ACSM CaGIS Map Design Award

The AAC Kyrgyzstan work was awarded an Honourable Mention. This is good news for us:
Official CaGIS page



I am leaving for Slovenia in less than one week to attend the ICA Mountain Cartography Workshop in Bohinj in the Julian Alps. This should be exciting and I am looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues. I'll be giving a presentation on what the AMG has been up to, including discussion of the Kyrgyzstan work. In particular I'll be talking about the generalization of land cover information obtained from classifying satellite imagery. This is something I am particularly interested in these days.