laser-cut bathymetric maps

[renoun]

I just saw a blog post about the laser-cut bathymetric maps made out of birch plywood that Below the Boat is selling. I'm probably not the only one here that could see one of these adorning a wall. They have separate more detailed Puget Sound and San Juan maps plus a variety of other East coast areas, inland lakes, and West coast locations.

[spatman]

Wow! reasonably priced, too, considering the work.

[lundysd]

So cool

[Joshua Smith]

Just saw some of these a while back in a map shop downtown- they are very cool!

[Tom Nic]

Really beautiful, and as "works of art" go, reasonably priced.

[LCF]

Wow -- something else to put on the wish list. Those are beautiful, and relevant and fun as well. More expensive than a casual whim, but not expensive as artwork goes.

[DiveZen]

Wow, these are gorgeous!

[kdupreez]

thanks for the share! those are very very cool!!

[blt2go]

Years ago when I was going through the oceanography tech program at Shoreline Community College we did a study of the south sound area and we made a 4 foot by 8 foot 3D scale model of that part of the sound (a full sheet of plywood was the base underneath it all)doing something similar but then we used marine-tex to waterproof it all. We then filled it with water and simulated the tidal flow through the different parts of the south sound by putting food coloring into the water. It wound up being a pretty cool project that incorporated the math to make the scale version, hands on tool use, map and chart reading and finally gave us a good idea of what our study areas geography was like, where the eddies were, the tideflats etc.

[Joshua Smith]

Years ago when I was going through the oceanography tech program at Shoreline Community College we did a study of the south sound area and we made a 4 foot by 8 foot 3D scale model of that part of the sound (a full sheet of plywood was the base underneath it all)doing something similar but then we used marine-tex to waterproof it all. We then filled it with water and simulated the tidal flow through the different parts of the south sound by putting food coloring into the water. It wound up being a pretty cool project that incorporated the math to make the scale version, hands on tool use, map and chart reading and finally gave us a good idea of what our study areas geography was like, where the eddies were, the tideflats etc.

That sounds really cool. I guess you dont have any pics or video to share?

[Mateo1147]

Years ago when I was going through the oceanography tech program at Shoreline Community College we did a study of the south sound area and we made a 4 foot by 8 foot 3D scale model of that part of the sound (a full sheet of plywood was the base underneath it all)doing something similar but then we used marine-tex to waterproof it all. We then filled it with water and simulated the tidal flow through the different parts of the south sound by putting food coloring into the water. It wound up being a pretty cool project that incorporated the math to make the scale version, hands on tool use, map and chart reading and finally gave us a good idea of what our study areas geography was like, where the eddies were, the tideflats etc.

They still have something very similar to what you described at the Pacific Science Center. Really cool to watch the water movements during the tide cycle.
http://exhibits.pacsci.org/Puget_Sound/PSModel.html

[Tangfish]

What cool maps. I put myself on the back order list for the Salish Sea map. Thanks OP!