{ "_comment": "A painted tectonic layer: one colour per plate, and how that plate is moving. heading_deg is a compass bearing over the map - 0 points at the top of the image, 90 to the right, 180 to the bottom. speed_cm_yr is drift; what happens at a margin is the difference between the two plates either side of it, so two plates drifting the same way are a boundary doing nothing. spin_deg_myr turns a plate about its own centre, positive clockwise, and it is worth setting on at least one: without it every margin is the same all the way along, and with it one end collides while the other slides. Paint the plates, not the mountains - where two of these meet, the collision, the belt and its faults are worked out from the motions. Repaint the blobs freely; only the colours have to keep matching this file.", "image": "Map3.plates.png", "warn_distance": 60, "plates": [ { "name": "plate_0", "rgb": [219, 83, 83], "speed_cm_yr": 3, "heading_deg": 341, "spin_deg_myr": -22.91 }, { "name": "plate_1", "rgb": [83, 123, 219], "speed_cm_yr": 2.1, "heading_deg": 207, "spin_deg_myr": 15.62 }, { "name": "plate_2", "rgb": [163, 219, 83], "speed_cm_yr": 5.8, "heading_deg": 192, "spin_deg_myr": 44.51 }, { "name": "plate_3", "rgb": [219, 83, 202], "speed_cm_yr": 5.9, "heading_deg": 212, "spin_deg_myr": -44.77 }, { "name": "plate_4", "rgb": [83, 219, 197], "speed_cm_yr": 4.4, "heading_deg": 285, "spin_deg_myr": -33.44 }, { "name": "plate_5", "rgb": [219, 157, 83], "speed_cm_yr": 3.5, "heading_deg": 321, "spin_deg_myr": -26.46 }, { "name": "plate_6", "rgb": [117, 83, 219], "speed_cm_yr": 1.6, "heading_deg": 281, "spin_deg_myr": 12.3 } ] }