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Eduard: Swiss-Style Relief Shading for Maps Using Machine Learning

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Re: Eduard: Swiss-Style Relief Shading for Maps Using Machine Learning

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Is there an easy way to see that this problem is complicated enough to require a neural network? I'm a noob in graphics, but this problem seems like it shouldn't be that difficult to require a neural net.

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that a 2D map is going to have roads and valleys and big green spaces in the mountainsides and peaks. The neural net identifies that villages and curvy roads represent valley floors and interpolate where the mountain slopes are.

Re: Eduard: Swiss-Style Relief Shading for Maps Using Machine Learning

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Is there an easy way to see that this problem is complicated enough to require a neural network? I'm a noob in graphics, but this problem seems like it shouldn't be that difficult to require a neural net.

There's a nice example on that page with an overlayed relief shaded map and the original. Can you explain in English step by step how you would turn one into the other manually using something like photoshop?
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