perfiles abatidos

19:12 Feb 14, 2007 

Aceavila, my impression is that it is very much terminology - googling the spanish term returns enough results to convince me of that and I, like you, could find English texts describing the various different techniques but none which seemed to use a precise term that was exactly what I want. I think you might be onto something with the 'mimetic' thing. I've sent the translation off now; I used the phrase 'low profile' and explained to the client that I was unable to find the technical term. The text is a dissertation and he has been doing a lot of reading on the subject in English, so he said he should almost certainly be able to find it. Many thanks, Surtees.

19:00 Feb 14, 2007 

"...Solutions have included early *mimetic symbolisations of relief* (e.g. Abraham Ortelius' 1585 map of Iceland); the use of hachuring to symbolise lines of steepest decent ..." http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~jwo/ica99/

18:58 Feb 14, 2007 

...we find another description: The subsequent development of cartographic terrain representation can be seen as a struggle to symbolise multiple perspectives of 3-dimensional surface form in a .... static 2-dimensional medium. ..."

18:56 Feb 14, 2007 

I´m beginning to wonder (I´ve been chipping away at this one for a while!) if this isn´t just a descriptive resource on the part of the writer, rather than actual terminology.
In the following text I would have expected to find the term, but instead...