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posted by Jason Kottke  ·  gift link

The mighty flat mountains

I love JK Keller’s Tatamount project.

Photographs of mountains are computationally altered to flatten the mountain’s elevations, while an ocean horizon is altered to mimic the mountain’s original topography.

Tantamount

In the comments, he mentions that the effect is done with a combination of JavaScript and Photoshop…which I didn’t even know was a thing. (via today and tomorrow)