{"id":82791,"date":"2018-02-16T12:33:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T12:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/sun-glint-radial-hack\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T13:30:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T13:30:39","slug":"sun-glint-radial-hack","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/mapping\/mapping\/sun-glint-radial-hack","title":{"rendered":"Sun Glint Radial Hack"},"author":6971,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941,23051],"tags":[23201,26451,31931,32331,24981,22821,27911],"industry":[],"product":[36561],"class_list":["post-82791","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-water","tag-cartographic-design","tag-cartography","tag-hack","tag-how-to","tag-hydro","tag-oceans-and-maritime","tag-tutorial","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"short_description":"While engaging in the miracle of human flight I like to look down at the wrinkled surface of our earth. And if the sun angle is just righ...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>While engaging in the miracle of human flight I like to look down at the wrinkled surface of our earth. And if the sun angle is just right, given the direction I&#8217;m facing, a radial sun glint chases me, shimmering on and off bodies of water below, tracking with my gaze.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Tweet.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100717 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Tweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"861\" height=\"946\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got to thinking that I should try to do something similar with a map, but rather than the subdued cartographic water gradients that I was used to seeing, I&#8217;d try to ratchet up the gradient to something like real life, which, like lots of things in real life, is actually pretty extreme. Also, in the examples I&#8217;d seen, the gradient was typically applied to each water body independently, resulting in a series of radial gradient lakes. I wanted the radial gradient to fill them as though they were a single surface, to help reinforce the singular curved face of planet.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a look at northern Canada, home to thousands of lakes. You can almost hear the mosquitoes from here. A handy test bed:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Canada1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100716 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Canada1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1508\" height=\"802\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a lakes layer from Natural Earth, with a solid dark blue fill:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Canada2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100718 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Canada2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1508\" height=\"802\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next, I changed the lake polygon fill from solid to a radial gradient of white to dark-water blue. Play with the Pattern settings until you get a radial effect that works for you. I also added a water ripple texture (steal it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/mgmcg8a5taivryy\/WaveTextureLight.png?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>) because I just can&#8217;t help myself from doing stuff like that.\u00a0I have to admit, I caught myself just staring into the abyss of this fill symbology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Symbology.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100721 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Symbology.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"802\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The result, however, is super nasty:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Canada3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100719 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Canada3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1508\" height=\"802\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But even the supernastiest symbology shows promise. What I needed to do was to unify all of these individual <em>singlepart<\/em> features into a single <em>multipart<\/em> feature. That way, a single radial gradient will span across all of the lakes, just like in real life.<\/p>\n<p>I dissolved all of the features in my view into one <em>multipart<\/em> feature using the Dissolve tool. The dissolve tool is an old friend of the GIS folk, one of the very first tools taught to new map makers. I dissolved the lakes by an attribute that was the same for all features (if you don&#8217;t have an attribute that all of your features share, you can just make a new field and fill it with a default of 0).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Dissolve.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100720 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Dissolve.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"746\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing the difference this makes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Canada4.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100722 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Canada4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1508\" height=\"802\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hey now, that looks kinda-pseudo-plausibly-realistic! And that&#8217;s all there is to it&#8230;pretty much. If you want to crank this up to eleven, then you&#8217;ll have to add a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/xukyubjqxyakzu2\/glowshimmer.png?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sunglint image<\/a> in your ArcGIS Pro layout. Just like in real life, there is often a sharp flare of light right where the nadir of the rays bounce directly up into your airborne pupils.<\/p>\n<p>And I wrapped the layout in a vignette image, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.esri.com\/esri\/arcgis\/2017\/09\/14\/steal-these-vignettes-please\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as is my way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/CanadianLakes.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100723 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/CanadianLakes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sure this works for swiss-cheese lakes. But can it work for something as big and unified as the oceans? Sure! Here is a look at the polar sea, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/livingatlas.arcgis.com\/en\/browse\/#s=0&amp;q=firefly&amp;md=basemap:100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Firefly basemap<\/a> with a <a href=\"https:\/\/nation.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/Cascade\/index.html?appid=bae70fe8d206494796248972ca684f40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bumpified<\/a> surface and some intriguingly-spaced <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.esri.com\/esri\/arcgis\/2017\/12\/05\/water-lines-they-need-some-space\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">waterlines<\/a>. Meh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Globe1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100724 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Globe1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1504\" height=\"799\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here it is with a single-featured layer of oceans. Pretty nice. Sort of flat, though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Globe2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100725 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Globe2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1504\" height=\"799\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here it is with a radial fill. Heyyyyy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Globe3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100726 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Globe3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1504\" height=\"799\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And of course here it is nignette-ified with a sun glint right at the center of the gradient.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GlobeOceans.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100727 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GlobeOceans.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just because you are giving your water a fun realism-inspired radial fill, does that mean the map itself has to try to look real? No way. Whatever works for you map works for your map. This effect just helps tease at a roundness of the map. You can have something totally symbolic and still give the radial fill a shot. The important thing is to ask new questions and try new things and ask new questions based on the new things you tried. That way you build up a toolkit of options when you build any map. And it&#8217;s nice to have options.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PolarSeaTiltshift.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100732 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PolarSeaTiltshift.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy sun glint mapping! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/John_M_Nelson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John<\/a><\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":6971,"user_firstname":"John","user_lastname":"Nelson","nickname":"John Nelson","user_nicename":"j_nelson","display_name":"John Nelson","user_email":"John_Nelson@esri.com","user_url":"http:\/\/www.adventuresinmapping.com","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:19:05","user_description":"I have far too much fun looking for ways to understand and present data visually, hopefully driving product strategy and engaging users. 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