Depth terrain guide

Start

The tool opens with the sample map already standing as land, read in Map mode, so you can start by looking around.

What you need

• A browser with WebGL 2. Current Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari have it.
• A picture, if you want your own: a photo, a greyscale height picture, or a drawn map.

Your first result

1. Open Depth terrain. The sample map is already there, standing as land.
2. Drag on the land to turn it. Pinch, or scroll, to move closer or further away.
3. Press Image A to open a picture, or drop one on the land.
4. Under Read the picture as, pick Photo for a photo or a height picture, or Map for a drawn map.
5. Shape the land with Height and the other sliders, then press Save PNG at the top of the panel.

Good to know

• To start from the photo side, open the photo link. It loads a sample of soft hills and reads it as a photo.
• When a picture you drop looks like a map, a line appears over the land and offers to Read it as a map.
• Your picture is kept on this device, and every lab tool that takes a picture opens with it, until you press × on its tile. Here a kept picture opens read as a photo, unless the address asks for Map mode (?mode=map).
• On a phone the controls sit in a bar at the bottom of the screen. Tap the bar to open them.