{ "_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": "Map5.plates.png", "warn_distance": 60, "plates": [ { "name": "plate_0", "rgb": [219, 83, 83], "speed_cm_yr": 3, "heading_deg": 38, "spin_deg_myr": -22.76 }, { "name": "plate_1", "rgb": [83, 123, 219], "speed_cm_yr": 5.3, "heading_deg": 108, "spin_deg_myr": -40.21 }, { "name": "plate_2", "rgb": [163, 219, 83], "speed_cm_yr": 2.8, "heading_deg": 333, "spin_deg_myr": 21.11 }, { "name": "plate_3", "rgb": [219, 83, 202], "speed_cm_yr": 2.7, "heading_deg": 7, "spin_deg_myr": -20.61 }, { "name": "plate_4", "rgb": [83, 219, 197], "speed_cm_yr": 5.4, "heading_deg": 142, "spin_deg_myr": -40.89 }, { "name": "plate_5", "rgb": [219, 157, 83], "speed_cm_yr": 1.5, "heading_deg": 152, "spin_deg_myr": 11.35 }, { "name": "plate_6", "rgb": [117, 83, 219], "speed_cm_yr": 4.3, "heading_deg": 207, "spin_deg_myr": -32.87 } ] }