About
Mountains, drawn one skyline at a time.
A map is flat. A ridge is a line.
Skycomb Studio turns any mountain area into ridgeline artwork: a drawing made of stacked lines. Each line is the skyline you would see looking across one thin slice of the terrain. Stack the slices from the far edge to the near one, let each nearer ridge hide what is behind it, and the whole massif appears out of nothing but white lines on black.
You choose the place, anywhere in the world. Frame it on the map, pick one of the peaks that are already loaded, or search for a summit by name. The studio does the rest and hands you the artwork. What it becomes is up to you.
- terrain coverage: frame any range on Earth
- Worldwide
- ready-made peaks in 10 countries
- 94+
- best terrain resolution
- ~12 m
- lines at most per design
- 240
What goes into every design.
Real terrain, not an illustration
Every line is sampled from public elevation tiles for the area you framed. Sharp summits stay sharp, and a broad valley stays broad.
Named summits
Peak names come from OpenStreetMap and are placed on the highest point of the terrain, then snapped to the nearest drawn ridge so labels sit on the peak.
Yours to style
Choose the viewing direction, how many lines to draw, how dramatic the relief is, which labels to show and what the title says. Changes apply instantly.
Built on open data.
The mountains belong to everyone, and so does the data behind this artwork. Here is who to thank.
- AWS Terrain TilesElevation. An open compilation of SRTM, Copernicus, national datasets and others, used with attribution.
- OpenStreetMapSummit names and heights, © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL.
- MapboxThe interactive globe you frame your design on. It is only used for choosing the area; the artwork itself never touches it.
Where it is heading.
Skycomb Studio is still young. Today you can frame, render and tune a design. Next on the list:
- 01Shareable links that reopen a design exactly as you left it
- 02More sizes and orientations, with PDF export
- 03Upload a GPX track to trace a hike or race across the ridgelines
- 04Files for pen plotters and laser cutters, for drawing or engraving the lines
- 05Accounts, so you can save your designs