How to display DSM as it appears in the quality report?

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Dear Support:

I find the DSM generated in the quality report is very beautiful (as follows), and I like to add it into my paper, however there is no legend, north arrow and scale bar in the DSM, which are required to make a complete map.

I then try to add all the elements in a GIS software (ArcMap), but the DSM can’t be displayed in the way that shows in the report in ArcMap. I know there must be some complex algorithms to render the DSM in Pix4d.

Could you be kind enough to tell me a little bit about the algorithm or suggest some references or software that can display DSM in that wonderful way?

Thanks very much and looking forwards to your reply!

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Have you tried to visualize it using shadows? I reckon a substantial amount of the DSMs appearance in the report borrows from shadows being visualized, hereby rendering it more 3D-ish compared to regular DSM viewing.

I know you can visualize using shadows using both Qgis or ArcMap, but I am not entirely sure if you can combine shadow visualization with a custom color scheme.