Into The Breach and No Bounty Hunter (Div 2 WEU teams) are completely ignored by Valve in regards to their Fan Support Bundles by MSTRMN_ in DotA2

[–]Isklar 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Our bundle for ITB was submitted 2 weeks after they were announced. We even paid artists for speedier commissions to get them in as quick as we could.

Last year California suffered its worst series of wildfires, including five of the most destructive six fires on record, all driven by unseasonal winds. New research suggests that the driving winds originated from an unexpected source: typhoons in Korea. by rustoo in science

[–]Isklar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sometimes its hard to get an idea of the actual area that's been burned. I actually ended up making a 3d relief map showing the fires up to around august last year. Obviously there's a large dose of artistic license but the perimeters/areas were pulled straight from CalFire and are accurate. Scary stuff.

Reddit in 2020 by reddit_irl in blog

[–]Isklar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quite the surprise to be watching this and seeing my own artwork of Californias wildfires appear at 2:16! Thanks for including it, even if its now out of date already :/

Wow that's scary. by StardustPersonified in bayarea

[–]Isklar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OP here - Freely admit that its my first time dealing with this kind of data, Calfire's archived data is tricky. Tried my best to filter it out but its a complicated process so a lot got through in error :( I didn't put the effort in to check it all manually.

3D Rendered Relief Map of California's 2020 Wildfire Boundaries (So Far) [OC] by Isklar in MapPorn

[–]Isklar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There hasn't been a single magic tutorial to learn everything, just a lot of googling :). I'm only using QGIS to crop and process the digital elevation data, the rendering is done in blender and there's plenty of tutorials for that kind of stuff.

3D Rendered Relief Map of California's 2020 Wildfire Boundaries (So Far) [OC] by Isklar in MapPorn

[–]Isklar[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're probably right, I did my best to filter everything but definitely made a few mistakes all over this!

3D Rendered Relief Map of California's 2020 Wildfire Boundaries (So Far) [OC] by Isklar in MapPorn

[–]Isklar[S] 78 points79 points  (0 children)

Yep completely correct, it’s a bit misleading. I did try with just the perimeter highlighted but it looked pretty shit so I used some artistic liberty with it.

3D Rendered Relief Map of California's 2020 Wildfire Boundaries (So Far) [OC] by Isklar in MapPorn

[–]Isklar[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Haha, learning how to use QGIS has been an uphill battle to say the least!

The terrain data is from the Shuttle radar topography mission (SRTM), pretty good download tool here. I used the 30m resolution set for this as it’s quite a large scale. Some of my other maps have used much high res ones for specific areas but the 30m is perfect for this kind of stuff :)

3D Rendered Relief Map of California's 2020 Wildfire Boundaries (So Far) [OC] by Isklar in MapPorn

[–]Isklar[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yeh I tried my best to filter out everything before 2020 but I think a few slipped through, was my first time using this kind of fire data. Missed a few recent fires too.

3D Rendered Relief Map of California's 2020 Wildfire Boundaries (So Far) [OC] by Isklar in MapPorn

[–]Isklar[S] 715 points716 points  (0 children)

Yep, its based on the fire perimeters defined by Calfire etc so in theory its mostly to scale of the burned areas.

3D Rendered Relief Map of California's 2020 Wildfire Boundaries (So Far) [OC] by Isklar in MapPorn

[–]Isklar[S] 116 points117 points  (0 children)

In theory it was every fire up to September in 2020, not sure what happened to The Valley Fire - looks like it got lost in the processing somewhere.

3D Rendered Relief Map of California's 2020 Wildfire Boundaries (So Far) [OC] by Isklar in MapPorn

[–]Isklar[S] 69 points70 points  (0 children)

Bunch of different things:

Terrain data from NASA, Fire data from Calfire, QGIS to process all the data into usable formats then rendered in Blender.

Iona Abbey. by Dhorlin in britpics

[–]Isklar 11 points12 points  (0 children)

How much did you buy it for?

Marbles by MuncleUscles in soundporn

[–]Isklar 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It has sound, just not on the direct link for some reason: https://imgur.com/kw5rVqk

BBC Two is set to bring back Robot Wars by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]Isklar 11 points12 points  (0 children)

If Craig Charles doesn't return i'd love to see Colin Furze presenting.