AI-driven Swiss-style Relief Shading and Rock Depiction
Swiss-style relief shadings are considered masterpieces of Cartographic design. Yet, the lengthy manufacturing process of such reliefs is only known to a few remaining experts. Hence, we trained an artificial intelligence (AI) to produce such shaded reliefs in mere seconds for arbitrary regions and in a quality that is indistinguishable from the original masterpieces. A similar approach has been applied to replicate Swiss-style rock depictions Generative AI methods such as Stable Diffusion and Pix2Pix.
Automatic Vectorization
of Printed Maps
Switzerland has one of the most detailed and sophisticated map series in the world feature richness and positional accuracy is of high interest in many scientific fields. We developed workflows based of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Geographic Information Science (GIS) to automatically extract and vectorize the depicted features.
Interactive Tool to Construct Map Projections
This tool has been originally developed to help understand the geometrical construction of map projections. By interactively moving the three main components, the earth, the light source and the projection surface, it is possible to compose a large number of set-ups, each corresponding to a real-world map projection, many of which are in use today.