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How to make a Heat Map of Distance between a set of parallel lines in QGIS?

This question is an extension of Question posted on the following link: Distance between multiple parallel lines?

I have a set of parallel lines (as in the image below), I am seeking to find the minimum distance of each line and create a heat map to visualize the distribution of distance between closest neighbors within extent of the layer in the direction of orientation of the lines.

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Shapefile of the set of parallel lines is available from the following link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1F8ZF6pZXB6RlqiASJ8m6J1f-LM9yEn4Z?usp=sharing

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  1. Add additional vertices to your lines using Densify by count.

  2. Extract vertices from the densified line.

  3. Apply heatmap symbol renderer to the extracted vertices.

Screenshot: original lines are extended to see their distance and compare it with the rendered heatmap: enter image description here

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You can use the native QGIS Line Density algorithm for this task. It computes a density value based on line segments in a search radius as you can see in the picture.

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You find the algorithm in the QGIS processing toolbox in the interpolation algorithm group.

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