Arthag
Loopysue
ProFantasy 🖼️ 40 images Cartographer
I've decided to leave Merelan city till last, and map Urrowan Palace before I go back to finish it.
This is just an idea right now - thinking 'on paper' (except its a screen, but you know what I mean
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Its a perspective piece - 2, or possibly 3 point perspective, so it may end up looking quite warped, since the closest ground will be pretty much top down... I think. Haven't quite made my mind up about it yet.
That volcano in the background is bigger than Olympus Mons.
This is just an idea right now - thinking 'on paper' (except its a screen, but you know what I mean
).Its a perspective piece - 2, or possibly 3 point perspective, so it may end up looking quite warped, since the closest ground will be pretty much top down... I think. Haven't quite made my mind up about it yet.
That volcano in the background is bigger than Olympus Mons.
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I hope so... since its the only thing on the map so far! LOL!
Thanks Lorelei
Like I said over at the Guild - Well, I did a little red map, so after a detour through Arramatapo's letter map I thought the logical progression should be a little purple map - on the way to blue
Depending on which set of people you talk to, psychologists insist that a preference for purple is a very strong indicator of depression, while spiritualists/Buddhists (its one of the two or both), believe it to be the colour of... well... spiritualism
I'm with the spiritualists myself, or I'd have to admit to being most chronically depressed for most of my life!
Still... its better than my favourite colours - Purple and orange! I guess that makes me kind of... well... brown!
ROFL
Oh, and purple haze.
Basically its the surface of a globe drawn from an angle that is hopefully the right one. There are many far more fancy grids available online, but they are all the wrong shape for this map, and they're way too low res and fuzzy for my taste. The lines got too close together towards the top corners because I placed the end of the axis of the sphere at the tip of the long vertical line in the centre of the map. That's the only real problem with spherical perspectives. The universe is curved when viewed this way, and all its lines are circles.
This is a different version again:
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Another version:
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Neither of these grids are mine by the way, but both are such low resolution they aren't even suitable for importing and tracing. I just put them here to show you what I mean.
After several hours of deliberation I rendered a wireframe sphere in Blender, chopped out the piece I wanted, and imported it for tracing. Even then the resolution was pretty poor, and it shows in the tracing. Some of those lines are really quite inaccurate - badly spaced.
Again, it may only be me. Just my 2 cents.
This map is probably going to be quite unsettling in terms of perspective for everyone else but me.
But if the volcano distorts the shape of the planet, wouldn't that affect any grid laid out across the surface? The grid is merely a representation of the actual surface, right? So my brain would expect the grid of a distorted planetary surface to reflect the distortion. A spherical grid laid over, say, an egg-shape, doesn't provide a reference or wireframe representation of the shape, allowing an observer to designate, find, or accurately represent a location/area on the surface.
EDIT: the spherical grid represents the shape this world should be, if it wasn't being distorted by Arthag.
EDIT: I only have 90 MB left to do everything I need to do today (rationed now to 120Mb per day till 22 October), so I may go a bit quiet for a while... but I promise I will use the time I have to spend in splendid isolation well, by having another look at that grid
Well, not at the event horizon for a black hole though...
Oh, I'm typing this on my tablet again, my vista computer has decided to blue screen with different error messages each of the 6 or so times. Haven't thumped it yet, but that is a possibility. Well, maybe check it for dust.
Black holes aren't continuous, though, if we assume a true singularity. However, curvature at the event horizon can be quite gentle for a sufficiently large black hole because the singularity doesn't get larger, but the event horizon gets farther away. It's when you get close enough to the singularity that the curvature of spacetime is close to the granularity of spacetime that things go all crazy. That's why tiny black holes go kaboom very quickly (the smaller the singularity, the closer its event horizon and when that nasty frothing bit around the singularity starts to leak out through the event horizon, everyone gets to see that's happening).
I'll pay the first one a visit when I get my broadband back.
As for your response to Jim... I think my brain hurts! LOL
If I end up going over my monthly allowance by visiting this forum, it will have been worth it for the laughs