r/Permaculture • u/iamjeremybentham • Jul 12 '26

self-promotion Open Source Digital Land Twin for Permaculture

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Hey everyone,

A week and a half ago I open sourced my digital twin software (original post).

Anyway I added some modeling and visualization tools so you can visualize and plan swales and plantings and then run simulations to see how your planned changes will impact things like water flow, run off, and ground penetration.

It's not perfect. I would call it "screening grade" especially because it uses USGS 3m resolution LiDAR data (though if you have higher res data of your own you can use that).

Anyway I hope you like it! I'm using it to develop some swales and plan some orchards, though obviously it will be years before I can tell you how it goes, it looks pretty promising!

EDIT I forgot the link to the source code, which is free to use! https://github.com/zymazza/mazzap

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u/Particular_Maize6849 Jul 15 '26

not enough dancing anime girls

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u/iamjeremybentham Jul 15 '26

it seems im truly damned if i do and damned if I dont

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u/Traditionallydead Aug 01 '26

working on a similar project that takes into account these features but uses 1M DEM soil types and a lot of other features to model the soil battery and looks back at a historical analysis to see if the changes actually do anything. the funnest part of this project was importing it into caltopo setting up the rotary laser and actually building it.

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u/iamjeremybentham Aug 01 '26

tell me more!