Created from a UK Environment Agency LiDAR survey with data released under an Open Government Licence.
Airborne LiDAR data is usually treated as '2.5D' or viewed 'flat' in GIS. Here, I have transformed the height grid into individual XYZ points and meshed them. A 'normal map' is used to project data from the high resolution (0.5m) to this reduced complexity version, making it appear more detailed than it is.