Generated from the same geometry the printer is handed — the plate seen from directly above. It cannot show the relief, which is the part you have to hold.
The Limmat
Zürich's water, from the Glarus Alps down
The Limmat is the Linth after the lake, and this plate covers the whole run: glaciated valley heads in Glarus, the Linth plain, Lake Zürich as a long blue channel, and the city at the outflow. The Sihl comes in as its own piece. Anyone who lives in Zürich has walked over three or four of these pieces without noticing they were separate places.
What a child works out
- A lake is a wide part of a river, not a different thing.
- The same water has different names along its length.
- A city sits where it does because of the water.
The plate
- Pieces
- 15 pieces
- Plate
- 250 × 176 mm
- Scale
- 1 mm ≈ 517 m
- Vertical exaggeration
- × 0.63
- Thickness
- 8.8 mm
- Smallest piece
- 110 mm²
- Fit
- 0.35 mm clearance
- Material
- PLA, printed in Switzerland
3 named; the rest are sub-basins the source data leaves unnamed.
B5 — the size of a school exercise book.
How much ground one millimetre of plate covers.
Height is compressed here — the terrain is dramatic enough at this scale that true height would not fit the plate.
Nothing is cut smaller than a child can pick up.
Printed in place, so every piece seats first time without sanding.
Every named piece
- Rhein
- Sernf
- Sihl
Zoom in, zoom out
A piece of each of these is the subject of the next one. Each plate is redrawn at its own scale, so it is a real map at every level rather than an enlargement of the one above.
Follow the water — The Rhine down to the river that runs through Zürich
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- Scale
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