https://www.possantti.net/tags/illustration/Recent content in Illustration on Iporã Possantti, PhDHugo -- gohugo.ioen-gbThu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.possantti.net/projects/hydrology-textbook/Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.possantti.net/projects/hydrology-textbook/<header class="project-header"> <strong class="project-motivation"> How to consistently illustrate 500&#43; figures for a comprehensive hydrology textbook? </strong> <p class="project-abstract"> Technical illustration work for a comprehensive hydrology textbook authored by Günter Blöschl, Murugesu Sivapalan, and Peter Troch, to be published by Wiley. The book spans 15 chapters and requires more than 500 figures, ranging from 2D schematics to 3D rendered landscapes, all produced with an entirely open-source toolchain: Inkscape, Blender, QGIS, and Python. </p> </header> <figure class="post-figure" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"> <img src="https://photos.possantti.net/covers/main-cover.jpg" alt="" style="display: block; width: 100%; height: auto; margin-left: 0; margin-right: auto;"> <figcaption class="post-caption" style="width: 100%; margin-left: 0; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"> <span class="caption">Terraced rice fields in northern Vietnam, a strong candidate photograph for the book cover. The landscape captures every hydrological scale at once: mountains, clouds, river, and the human interface with water.</span> <span class="separator"> — </span> <span class="credit">©&nbsp;<em>Undefined</em></span> </figcaption> </figure> <hr> <h2 id="context">Context</h2> <p>This is an ongoing illustration project for <strong>&ldquo;Hydrology – unified principles and practices across scales,&rdquo;</strong> a textbook to be published by Wiley.</p>