Yosemite's Cockscomb 3d topo

Yosemite's magnificent castle like Cockscomb dominates the Cathedral ridge above Budd lake. I modeled it from a LIDAR dataset collected to study nitrogen export and made available on http://opentopo.sdsc.edu/.

You can watch my tutorial video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4-ICkvyJv0

This thing was featured on the 3D Printing Today podcast available on iTunes, Stitcher radio or direct from the source at http://threedprintingtoday.libsyn.com/