Mounds (terpen)

[Dune]

I was playing around for a possible commission and built this tidal landscape with mounds and some Iron Age farms. I will possibly extend this with high water and very dry versions. Possibly...
A 1920x1200px version at 0.5 and AA4 rendered for 5 hours, and I think that was due to the fact that I plugged another PF into the cloud functions. The muddy water is just a reflective shader.

[Kevin F]

Nice image. I especially like the foreground and the general mood of the scene. Should make a good basis for other drier/wetter versions.

[Tangled-Universe]

Lovely image Ulco, feels really Dutch!
Good atmosphere and very nice surfacing.
My only minor crit could be that the mounds are a bit low, the ones I have ever seen here are usually 10-30m high (in Brabant there are some big ones).

[cyphyr]

Looks very similar to areas round where I live. Here the mounds are not even a meter high but its higher enough to raise it above the local marsh (at the time).
Richard

[Tangled-Universe]

Looks very similar to areas round where I live. Here the mounds are not even a meter high but its higher enough to raise it above the local marsh (at the time).
Richard

Since that's what they are basically meant for it means that Ulco's image still is accurate, except that my biased vision may not notice one meter high mounds

[Dune]

These Iron Age people wouldn't have cranes and caterpillars to build there hillocks, so I suppose they weren't very high. But actually, I don't know. But 30meters??? That's as high as a 9 story flat...
I'm now making some Limonium vulgare to get some color into the marshes.

[Tangled-Universe]

These Iron Age people wouldn't have cranes and caterpillars to build there hillocks, so I suppose they weren't very high. But actually, I don't know. But 30meters??? That's as high as a 9 story flat...
I'm now making some Limonium vulgare to get some color into the marshes.

30 metres is exceptional and maybe a bit over-estimated, but there's a huge one nearby Roosendaal for instance. It's along a highway and definitely is artificial and very high.
Several hundreds of metres wide and definitely in the range of 20 meters. I'll see if I can find it online.
The village where I grew up though, also has one and it survived the big flooding of 1953 so it's at least 7 metres high.
Mounds of that size weren't uncommon.

But I agree with you about Iron Age people not being able to make very big ones. I think you would need some tools like buckets horses and such to move such massive amounts of soil.

[Henry Blewer]

The Mississippi culture, native Americans built large mounds. Some were as big as football fields and larger. Many were quite high as well.

Looks good Ulco. The marsh is great. Add a power fractal to the Final Density modulator on the clouds function tab. It will add detail to the clouds you have. (If you have not done so yet).

[cyphyr]

In Wiltshire (next county over) we have Silbury Hill, a man made mound about 37m high. Built about 4750 years ago and that it took 18 million man-hours, or 500 men working for 15 years.
Why and by what motivation is as clear now as it ever will be ...

Richard

[otakar]

Very pretty. So much visual interest, as always. The cracks are lovely, but maybe should be a bit less pronounced where covered with vegetation.

[choronr]

A fine image Ulco; and, an excellent base to build upon.

[freelancah]

Very nice! Looking forward of seeing more! Maybe decrease the cracks a bit? They seem a bit too intense on some areas?

[Kadri]

Nice render!

[Dune]

High water version. C&C welcome, as always.

[Violoncello]

High water version. C&C welcome, as always.

Nice flooding.
I like this one.