How would monsters map?

[rgcalsaverini]

Wow GP, that's amazing! Masterfully done! Its a shame I can't rep you again, I'll spread some more love around and come back to rep this. Awesome!

[Gamerprinter]

For whatever reason, I don't see the completed map in that thread, so here is my December 2009 challenge map, reposted:

[Jalyha]

Perhaps the most interesting feature of these maps would be the likelihood of how completely they would ignore the signifiers we consider important, such as peculiar landforms, unique buildings etc.

Man, child and dog map a neighborhood?:

For whatever reason, I don't see the completed map in that thread, so here is my December 2009 challenge map, reposted:

That's fantastic!!

[rgcalsaverini]

Rofl! Love it Jalyha, maybe that could be a challenge too. To map something using developed human skills, but something else's point of view and focus (dog, kid...)!

[Jalyha]

Hard to beat my SUPER PRO drawing skills though (yeh, I know it's that bad...)

I was trying to illustrate (badly) that no matter how a species perceives information, or what information they find relevant... it *can* be mapped (let's face it, if *I* can do it, anyone can! )

[Tracker]

Hello:

Interesting, actually very interesting question and concept. How does a creature know their surroundings and how would they map it. Lets see...

Insects are a good example to bring into an unusual world.

Bees or giants bees use from my understanding a dance to communicate to other bees the locations of resources and items of interst. So I think that their maps would look like a bee doing dance moves.

Ants use pheromones to follow and travel. So I guess it would be a scent map. I do not know what that would look like.

Reptiles

some reptiles use heat vision or sense heat with their tongues. So a heat map,

This is a very interesting concept.

Thank you

Tracker

[jkat718]

GP, where in that thread is the map itself? Post 1 says to go to post 42, but there's nothing there.

[Gamerprinter]

I don't know, but if you look up page, I posted the same map again in this thread.

[jkat718]

Whoops, I see it now. Thanks.

[Jynx]

Thanks Jalyha! Now I can't get that mash song out of my head!