A detailed shaded relief map of London rendered from Lidar data [work by u/visualgeomatics on reddit]

Source: England National Lidar Program

Tools: Blender, QGIS, Global Mapper, Photoshop

They mosaiced a lidar tile dataset into a surface model and cast light on it to create a highly detailed image that looks 3d.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar