Bruce Raup's gallery of GMT output

Here are a few examples of more unusual output from GMT (Generic Mapping Tools) software. The GMT website has a page of examples that systematically illustrates most of GMT's capabilities.

Here is a presentation on GMT I gave at the AGU booth in 2005.

Contours of distance from Boulder, Colorado, USA

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Web interface to make your own map Shaded Globe

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An ancient pond, A frog jumps in, The sound of water.
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Click on map for animated sequence showing solar illumination at 17:00 UTC through the year. (This is a 5 MB file.)

Click on thumbnail image for animated sequence showing solar illumination and other sun data for Boulder, Colorado. (This is a 9 MB file.)
Click on thumbnail image for animated sequence showing the flooding of Colorado. (This is a 5.8 MB file.)

Soccer ball combined with world map. Script
Map showing the relative sizes of the USA (9.6 million km²) and Antarctica (14 million km²). Script

Map showing the relative sizes of the USA and Japan. Perl script
Placing Japan on the Globe Script

Contours of distance from Boulder, Colorado, USA Script Web interface to make your own map	Shaded Globe Script
An ancient pond, A frog jumps in, The sound of water. Script	Click on map for animated sequence showing solar illumination at 17:00 UTC through the year. (This is a 5 MB file.)
Click on thumbnail image for animated sequence showing solar illumination and other sun data for Boulder, Colorado. (This is a 9 MB file.)	Click on thumbnail image for animated sequence showing the flooding of Colorado. (This is a 5.8 MB file.)
Soccer ball combined with world map. Script	Map showing the relative sizes of the USA (9.6 million km²) and Antarctica (14 million km²). Script
Map showing the relative sizes of the USA and Japan. Perl script	Placing Japan on the Globe Script