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Sep 27, 2020, 6 tweets

It feels like quite a good time to post a soothing landscape map gif

(made with open data from @OrdnanceSurvey )

here are the frames, should you wish to zoom in (first four)

final three

I've been going through something of a contour phase lately and when you just use them on their own I find them quite soothing, somehow

combine with other layers, add a little explosion effect and you get a slightly different result when you look closely

like this - the contours turn to small fuzzy dots

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