Topographic Wallpaper

Fun with stylized maps.Inspired by Basic Apple Guy’s Topographic Amoeba wallpapers, I thought I’d try to find a way to create my own that contour places I’ve lived. I didn’t get anywhere close, but I did end up with a neat little project. A brainstorming session with Claude turned into a Python script, and I asked for a web UI to mess with the knobs and instantly started having lots of fun framing and styling different map compositions. I published the project on GitHub just in case you’d enjoy playing with it, too. If you create any images or styles you like, I’d love to hear from you! The rendered images are very high resolution, and I’m plucking out some downsized squares just for fun. Columbus, Ohio Rochester, New York Seattle, Washington Orlando, Florida Austin, Texas Bend, Oregon It’s interesting to me that I barely recognize some of these places I’ve known without roads and human landmarks, and very satisfying to look at them in a new way—even if by GIS standards this is a…