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    Quote Originally Posted by wormspeaker View Post
    how the cartographers that frequent the guild would go about mapping an O'Neill Cylinder.
    You mean other than just make a rectangular image and map it to the inside of a cylinder?
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    doesn't seem to capture the feel of such a massive structure.
    Capturing vast scale is indeed quite more difficult than it would seem, yes. Sometimes we end up with Godzilla props -- things that are proportionally correct, but carry that sense of "miniature."

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    Quote Originally Posted by töff View Post
    You mean other than just make a rectangular image and map it to the inside of a cylinder?
    Yes. Just making a rectangular map just doesn't seem to do it justice. Particularly since what you can see in the sky at any point in the cylinder would be just as important as what was around you on the ground.

    Maybe something like below. (If they had 4 land masses instead of 3. It's hard to do anything but 90 degree angles in MS Paint.)
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    Last edited by wormspeaker; 09-21-2009 at 05:32 PM.
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