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A number of people have commented on, or asked about the trees in both of our maps. I was actually thinking about doing a mini-tut on this subject, but after seeing your innovations to the method, thought perhaps it might be fun to collaborate on this tutorial. I'll be starting school this week myself, sounds like you will too, so I know that we will both be pretty busy. But perhaps we could work on it incrementally (via email) and then, whenever we finish, post it here for the Guild. What do you think? Cheers, -Arsheesh
