NES World/Regional Maps Requests Thread

Symphony D. said:
Flipped world is kind of interesting, though I don't really see how it's "random" ... you can easily extrpolate where things will be given knowledge of the real world. It's also horribly distorted, but eh, interesting nonetheless.

For those who are curious, both the "Jason/North King" and "Disenfranchised" (I don't like attaching my name to it as the version now in use is actually a wholly different base from what I came up with) maps both approximate Robinson projections.

Now, what it's really all about is Dymaxion maps...
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I much prefer the Winkel Tripel projection for world maps, but I don't usually feel like going to the trouble of changing the world map.
 
Eugh. More curving is bad, National Geographic be damned! I guess it'd be easier to translate data off of images or atlases, but that's not worth the additional ugliness. I'd prefer going the other way to Miller Cylindrical, honestly, if it wasn't so horribly distorted. Robinson's a happy medium between straight lines and curves.

I guess this means the Ice map is dual "Gnomonic Projection". Which isn't too bad because even if the equator's lost to infinity, there's not much there anyway...
 
Symphony D. said:
Eugh. More curving is bad, National Geographic be damned! I guess it'd be easier to translate data off of images or atlases, but that's not worth the additional ugliness. I'd prefer going the other way to Miller Cylindrical, honestly, if it wasn't so horribly distorted. Robinson's a happy medium between straight lines and curves.
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Heck no! Winkel Tripel is vastly superior to Robinson. The shapes are 20x better, it's much easier to see the lay of the land, and the overall picture is far better.
 
TBR, i hate terragen, ugghhh
 
And it shows. :p

Panda, a few days is how many (sorry, its just that now that I have written the althist itself all I need to add - well, until someone takes it up - is the Map.)? Also, two days from now it would be eight months since I first asked you for this map. How time flies...
 
You know, some day we will be NESing with spherical maps. Too many NESers/cartographers are frustrated with all kinds of projections, and progress will ultimately demand perfection. Plus it would look so cool and futuristic! :scan:
 
That'd be nice if monitors weren't 2D or we had random Java Applets sitting around. ;)
 
Symphony D. said:
That'd be nice if monitors weren't 2D or we had random Java Applets sitting around. ;)
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Mmm. If every NESer had a holographic projector, we'd be sitting at our desks musing over spherical maps. Preferably with extending arrows denoting troop movements, and monitors over nation stats etc. We'd be sending orders as 3D animations, with highlight markers and step by step walkthrough of every separate order! We could even read our orders and record them, so the MOD can concentrate on the flashy animations, rather than reading the rolling text! We could develop an entirely new genre of turn-based war games - become rich and famous! Why, with this renaissance of NESing, we could conquer the world!
 
The first step is to revolutionize modern information and computer technology as we know it - shouldn't be too hard to do. :p
 
Technological singularity approaches... shouldn't be too hard.:p

Just get a 2D globe that can rotate, so it acts like a globe.

Oh wait, would that work? No, I don't think so. It would distort.
 
It would work if you had a NES map based on a globe seen from "all" angles. Much like how Erik Mesoy made his rotating spheres with GIMP, only you need as many frames along the meridian. With 20 frames in each axis (this was quite sufficient for the maps I projected spherically) it would take 400. Ouch.
 
someone should make a world making program just for nessers *Stares at everyone else* well what are you waiting for!! lazy bums :p
 
Some more examples of "Cold War Style". Really, looks more like neon signs to me, but "Neon Sign Style" doesn't sound as cool.

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I think it needs cities to look right, otherwise it just looks odd. But I want to get all the countries done first before worrying about that.
 
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