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## Description

A panoramic mountain silhouette chart that renders the horizon as seen from a fixed vantage point, like a photograph of a ridgeline against the sky. A filled area under the skyline curve traces the ridgeline across a horizontal viewing range (in degrees of bearing or horizontal distance), and major summits are annotated with their name and elevation. Unlike an elevation-profile-along-a-trail, this plot is the angular view of the surrounding peaks from a single observer, making it ideal for summit-identification infographics, alpine panoramas, and travel guides.
A panoramic mountain silhouette chart that renders the horizon as seen from a fixed vantage point, like a photograph of a ridgeline against the sky. A filled area under the skyline curve traces the ridgeline across a horizontal viewing range (in degrees of bearing or horizontal distance), and major summits are annotated with their name and elevation. The skyline is jagged and angular — sharp triangular peaks with steep, often asymmetric flanks meeting at pointed apexes, connected by rugged ridges with cols, sub-peaks and rocky notches — not a sequence of smooth bell-shaped bumps. Unlike an elevation-profile-along-a-trail, this plot is the angular view of the surrounding peaks from a single observer, making it ideal for summit-identification infographics, alpine panoramas, and travel guides.

## Applications

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## Notes

- Render the ridgeline as a piecewise-linear / fractal silhouette: triangular peaks with sharp apexes and steep linear flanks, with small irregular jaggedness along the ridges (e.g. midpoint-displacement noise, jittered linear segments, or summed steep triangle/tent functions). Do NOT model summits as Gaussian / bell-curve bumps — the silhouette must read as alpine rock, not as a probability density
- Vary slope steepness and asymmetry per summit (e.g. one flank steeper than the other), and let saddles between neighboring peaks dip far enough to make each summit individually recognizable
- Optional layered depth: a darker foreground ridge in front of one or two lighter background ridges fading toward the sky color, like a classic Zermatt / Matterhorn panorama photograph
- Fill the area below the ridgeline with a dark solid color (photo-like silhouette, evening/dusk feel)
- Optional sky-gradient background above the ridgeline (light blue → white, or dusk orange → deep blue) for a photographic mood
- Annotate each peak with a thin leader line from the summit up to a label; label format is peak name on top and elevation in meters below (e.g., "Matterhorn" / "4478 m")
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# Specification tracking
created: 2026-04-24T21:39:00Z
updated: 2026-04-24T21:39:00Z
updated: 2026-04-25T00:00:00Z
issue: 5365
suggested: MarkusNeusinger

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features:
- annotated
- silhouette
- jagged
- geospatial
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