<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maps-of-the-lower-mississippi-harold-fisk/">Harold Fisk</a> (1908-1964) was a cartographer and geologist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In the early 1940s, he spent three years <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://www.pictureboxblue.com/mississippi-river-maps-harold-fisk/">tracing the paths of the Mississippi River</a>. Not just the current path — <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://southwritlarge.com/articles/a-cacophony-of-time-harold-fisks-mississippi-river-maps/">every path</a> it had taken in the thousands of years it has wandered from the American Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico. Fisk assembled his findings into a series of colored plates published as part of 1944's <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/proddesc_70640.htm">Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River</a>. The <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?fisk">multicolored maps</a> — tracing Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to Donaldsonville, Louisiana — became <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://kottke.org/19/06/the-marvelous-mississippi-river-meander-maps">legendary for their beauty</a>. (You can see <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maps-of-the-lower-mississippi-harold-fisk/">the originals</a>, of which only 1,000 were printed, <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maps-of-the-lower-mississippi-harold-fisk/">here</a>.)This embedding is trained on 30 segments of the Fisk plates — specifically, <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/proddesc_70640.htm">Sheet 7,</a> along the Arkansas-Mississippi border — cooked for a total of 300 steps on base SD 1.5: 16 vectors per token, a 0.004 learning rate, a batch size of 6, and 5 gradient steps.For a far more advanced way of paying procedural homage to Fisk's work, check out <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://roberthodgin.com/project/meander">Robert Hodgin's Meander project</a>, which creates new Fisk-inspired landscapes from scratch.Your ratings, especially of the five-star variety, are very much appreciated.

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