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The Alps, hand-drawn in Tolkien's style (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I knew it! Barad-dûr is Tolkien's metaphor for Turin. Which puts Rohan in France, the dwarves in Switzerland-Austria and the Shire in Wales.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

"Come on boys, they're not that big!” - some Carthaginian guy on an horse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Elephant wtf-toots can be hard in the distance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

It would be so cool to be able to generate these with AI models from OSM data. I did some experiments with Stable Diffusion and they turned out okay, but you have to decide between accuracy and style.