How it's made

Real terrain, printed in its real colours.

Every Exoform piece is a scale model of a real place, built from public map data and printed to order by us.

  1. Hex with the Mount Whitney trail raised on the terrain

    Step 1

    Real data in

    The shape of the ground comes from elevation data (AWS Terrain Tiles). The colours come from ESA WorldCover, a satellite map of land cover: forest, grass, bare rock, snow and water.

    Your hike is routed over the OpenStreetMap trail network. We only offer a trail when its mapped length matches the published distance.

    Landmarks come from real 3D scans where one exists: Delicate Arch is a scan by Microsoft (CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons).

  2. Close-up of the Zion National Park Statement block

    Step 2

    Printed in real colours

    Each piece prints in up to four matte filaments at once on our own printers in the USA, chosen per park: red rock and sand for Zion, granite and snow for Yosemite.

    Nothing is painted. The colour runs through the plastic, a plant-based PLA, at 0.2 mm layers.

    Zion's four filaments
  3. Grand Teton National Park Statement block

    Step 3

    Finished and shipped

    We check every piece by hand and pack it to travel.

    Everything is made to order and ships within 10 days to any US address.

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