World Map (high Resolution, Land Areas) 3D Printer Model

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Summary

This is a high resolution world map of land areas from one of Matlab's world map examples. I extracted the lines from this image into Inkscape, then made a vector graph, then extruded it. I deleted most of the small islands and unfortunately the continent of Antarctica as the line extraction gave too many breakpoints to yield a succesful extrusion. (It should be the Robinson projection.)

Here's the lazy code I wrote to extract land pieces.

I = geoshow('landareas.shp');

X = [];
Y = [];
for k = 1 : numel(I.Children)
disp(k)
x = get(I.Children(k), 'XData');
y = get(I.Children(k), 'YData');

X = [X; nan; x];
Y = [Y; nan; y];
end

X(1) = [];
Y(1) = [];

%%
close all
worldmap world
plotm(Y, X)

More about maps in Matlab: https://www.mathworks.com/help/map/create-a-world-map.html

worldMap.stl 3.7MB