{"id":292,"date":"2013-02-07T05:38:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T05:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world-machine.com\/blog\/?p=292"},"modified":"2013-02-07T05:38:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T05:38:52","slug":"improving-real-world-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/improving-real-world-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving Real World Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to talk briefly about a very popular but often unmentioned use of World Machine: Taking low resolution real world DEM files and creating something with more detail suitable for use in art or simulation.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the areas that I think could definitely use a tutorial! For an example of the power of the transformation, here&#8217;s a quick look at a before and after of a low-resolution DEM of an area of Washington state in the USA:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/transforming-real-world-data.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-293\" alt=\"Before and After\" src=\"http:\/\/world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/transforming-real-world-data.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/transforming-real-world-data.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/transforming-real-world-data-300x87.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/transforming-real-world-data-1024x298.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Click on the above to blow it up. Specifically, note how we&#8217;ve carefully added artificial detail that complements the quite coarse real-world data we have to work with. Hopefully I will get a chance to make a walkthrough soon.. but here&#8217;s the network for the world above:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/transforming-real-world-data2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-294\" alt=\"transforming-real-world-data2\" src=\"http:\/\/world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/transforming-real-world-data2.jpg\" width=\"1334\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/transforming-real-world-data2.jpg 1334w, https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/transforming-real-world-data2-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/transforming-real-world-data2-1024x405.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1334px) 100vw, 1334px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to talk briefly about a very popular but often unmentioned use of World Machine: Taking low resolution real world DEM files and creating something with more detail suitable for use in art or simulation. This is one of the areas that I think could definitely use a tutorial! For an example of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-machine-pro-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}