Contoured Fuji

Mount Fuji - Contours

Today's 30DayMapChallenge is - Prompting Only

Yesterday Andy Woodruff posted this animated contour map:

 

I liked the animated effect and so I decided to try and create something similar for today's 30DayMapChallenge. The challenge is: 

'For this map, make AI work for its money and produce something from start to finish in a chat window or on the command line.' 

My initial prompt for ChatGPT was 

'Using only the contours in this geojson https://mapsmania.github.io/mapchallenge/contours.geojson, (downloaded from Axis Maps Contours) and three.js create a map of Mount Fuji. I want the map to be a top down view. I want the map to slowly animate into view. The highest elevation contour line should appear first, then the next highest etc. Use a color ramp for each elevation with the darkest color at the top.'

The result was (to paraphrase Douglas Adams) a map almost, but not quite, entirely unlike Andy's animation. But never mind I liked the results and decided to try a few more prompts in ChatGPT to develop the map further, by adding a 3D effect, rotating from a top down map to a side on effect and then reducing the vertical exaggeration. The final result can by viewed on my Mount Fuji - Contours map.

This is the second three.js map I've created using the same contours of Mount Fuji for this year's 30DayMapChallenge. You might also like this Neon Fuji map - made for the 10 Minute map challenge.