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Offline St Oz

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Re: Official Map Thread (Request Thread and Rules)
« Reply #120 on: March 21, 2015, 11:47:33 PM »
Another somewhat big update, could be reverted back to the old given whatever responses I get back for this one.

Oz, why is eluvatar/rykkovaa so weird looking now?
Glad you asked, the original looked all nice and normal and connected right? Wrong. All maps are a 2d projection of a 3d sphere*, and there's no such thing as a perfect map. Certain maps have very good uses, such as mercator, which allows for very easy navigation (it wasn't conceived to be racist, no matter what some Galls-peters fan boy tells you). Taijitu so far has been and still is in equirectangular map projection, which means it makes very nice rectangles. Is this a good map projection? Far from it. at the very edges of the poles, the last pixel stretches about 0-5 kilometers across 7,200 pixels. And so that gives you an idea of how distorted that might look on a sphere for eluvatar/rykkovaa. Actually I can show you here. How silly looking. Now when you project the object onto the sphere it looks more like this, wow so much better, it looks like real land now.

Why is the antarctic land so much bigger now
Because it used to look like an animal butt in 3d, no joke

Also part of the update I added the source files of the map (in photoshop format), and I included taijitu in mercator/robinson projections. You can play with the projections of taijitu's map by using g-projector, a program developed by the ubernerds at NASA, it's pretty straightforward to use. 

If there's enough hate, I'll revert it back and we can all be ignorant of 3d, fucking 3d, ruining our 2d representations of it.

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Re: Official Map Thread (Request Thread and Rules)
« Reply #121 on: March 21, 2015, 11:49:56 PM »
yay!
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Re: Official Map Thread (Request Thread and Rules)
« Reply #122 on: March 22, 2015, 07:54:16 PM »
I would like to help improve on this further, but it may take some time.
                                 
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Re: Official Map Thread (Request Thread and Rules)
« Reply #123 on: March 23, 2015, 08:55:11 AM »
So the latest full.png looks like this if one focuses in on our messiest corner: the northerly lands near Rykkovaa:



(Earth coasts overlaid for comparison)

(Image from G.Projector with azimuthal equal-area projection)

It looks... okay. I've discovered some tools that could help improve on this further, which I may try out over the course of this week.
                                 
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Re: Official Map Thread (Request Thread and Rules)
« Reply #124 on: March 23, 2015, 02:26:28 PM »
Oh, that is nice Elu, for RL comparison.
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Re: Official Map Thread (Request Thread and Rules)
« Reply #125 on: March 23, 2015, 03:09:41 PM »
Oh, that is nice Elu, for RL comparison.

Now I'm intrigued, what's the size of my nation?

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Re: Official Map Thread (Request Thread and Rules)
« Reply #126 on: March 23, 2015, 05:35:36 PM »

On this one you can only compare with land on the same latitude. But it gives you the full picture


On this one you can compare to everything, but not so full picture towards the edges. But I don't think that's a problem since everyone seems to not be cut off.

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Re: Official Map Thread (Request Thread and Rules)
« Reply #127 on: March 23, 2015, 05:52:17 PM »
Is the map without labels uploaded somewhere? :-)
Edit: Delfos pointed out the psd in the OP.
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Re: Official Map Thread (Request Thread and Rules)
« Reply #128 on: March 25, 2015, 07:33:49 PM »
Hello. May Omsarim please have the following islands, nearby Jutensa?

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Re: Official Map Thread (Request Thread and Rules)
« Reply #129 on: March 26, 2015, 06:02:38 AM »
updated

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Re: Official Map Thread (Request Thread and Rules)
« Reply #130 on: March 26, 2015, 04:20:27 PM »
updated
Thank you very much!

For the purposes of your own embassy application, could you give me an area estimation for those islands?
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Re: Official Map Thread (Request Thread and Rules)
« Reply #131 on: March 26, 2015, 05:12:04 PM »
Elu do you have your magic program thingie?

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Re: Official Map Thread (Request Thread and Rules)
« Reply #132 on: March 28, 2015, 06:22:35 PM »
If I could get something in the shaded area, that would be great.  Specifically would like control of the area marked, then as far inland, north and south or whatever works from that spot.

Thanks in advance.  :fro:

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Re: Official Map Thread (Request Thread and Rules)
« Reply #133 on: April 01, 2015, 02:08:50 AM »
update... nerds

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Re: Official Map Thread (Request Thread and Rules)
« Reply #134 on: April 01, 2015, 12:26:30 PM »
Thanks Oz!