Mastodawn

Day 52. The Hexagonal Nose ⬡

For this project, I explored a speculative version of Yosemite: what if El Capitan's Nose route had formed with hexagonal columnar geometry.

The terrain base comes from OpenTopography LiDAR, so the relief and scale remain grounded in real data.

Built with QGIS, Qgis2threejs, and Three.js.

🛠️ Live demo: https://maptheclouds.com/playground/30-day-map-challenge/hexagons/
📚 Tutorial (blog): https://blog.maptheclouds.com/learning/3d-hexagons-qgis-tutorial
🧵 Tutorial (thread on X): https://x.com/maptheclouds/status/1456564261132582912
🗺️ Base map: OpenTopography LiDAR terrain with OSM context layers
🔄 Technical highlights:
• LiDAR terrain processing in QGIS with terrain-preserving simplification
• 50m hexagonal grid converted to raster for terrain-style rendering
• hexagon edges emphasized for legibility on steep faces
• Qgis2threejs export path into browser-based Three.js scene

#30DayMapChallenge on Twitter