The first thing I made for my final project was this gigantic Venus map:

The process for making this was pretty wild. First things first, I found myself a heightmap of Venus:

I put this into a really neat program called Wilbur, which can be used to edit heightmaps. I’d never used it before, so I spent a while fiddling around with it before I figured out how to use it. I clipped off like the lower half of all the heights (to simulate an ocean being there), and simulated some rain erosion. Once I did all that, I ended up with this map:

I also used Wilbur to figure out where the rivers would naturally form. I made this a little easier to look at by converting it to more earthlike colours, and got this:

I threw this map into Inkscape, and spent several days tracing coastlines, rivers, and lakes until I ended up with the vector map up above. The end result is a realistic map of what Venus would actually look like if it were terraformed.