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02Urban Portrait - City as a Face QGIS 4 compatibility
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Yes — 02Urban Portrait - City as a Face supports QGIS 4 (declared max version 4.99.0).
Create live urban portraits from built-in OSM downloads or project vectors, with luminance styling and print-ready export.
About
02Urban Portrait transforms vector infrastructure into optical portraits, cartographic engravings, and graphic masks. Load a profile image, map it to a geographic frame, and style roads, buildings, points, or other vector layers from sampled pixel luminance without changing source geometries or attributes. Features interactive 3-stage visual workflow stepper with numbered circular badges, algorithmic vector stippling & halftone engraving generator, 10 curated artistic colorway presets with JSON import/export, prominent built-in OSM acquisition with live safety badges, live pan and zoom updates, and PNG/PDF/SVG export. Online User Manual & Documentation: https://geophilo.com/zero2urbanportrait/ | If you find this plugin helpful, please consider starring the repository on GitLab (https://gitlab.com/geophilo1/zero2urbanportrait)!
| Author | Yusuf Eminoglu |
|---|---|
| Downloads | 3,670 |
| Latest version | 0.4.2 |
| Last updated | 2026-09-16 (29 days ago) |
| Min QGIS | 3.28.0 |
| Max QGIS | 4.99.0 |
| QGIS 4 ready | Yes |
| Maintenance | Active |
| Categories | Cartography & layout, Data download & OSM |
| Tags | roads, cartography, buildings, osm, optical illusion, portrait, luminance, generative art, halftone, stippling, engraving |
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