Trying out how a sliced landscape looks with different materials. Used 3mm single fluted cardboard. This should be cut perpendicular to wave direction in cardboard to avoid strange artifacts. It feels like a puzzle, maybe it could be used as such in a class geography. Next will be visualisation of the subsoil, which has a lot of variety (clay, sand loam) in this area (glacial artefacts)
Source files: AHN (algemene hoogtekaart nederland, digital information of the Dutch topography). Downloaded the information (geotiff) from AHN site, converted with QGIS to 16 bit bitmap (black and white scale), combined them in photoshop and converted this to a smaller bitmap (GIF, about 1000 x 2000 pixel) to make a 3D shape (bitmap to heightfield in Rhino, other programs are also suitable)