It has been a certain time that I wanted to have really unique and original compasses.
As these are hard to come by and wouldn't be unique anyway, I decided to create some myself.
And as I am in the process to do so, I may particpate to the challenge as well so that other collegues may eventually take profit of this work.

The idea is to create mapping elements with multifractals and then slightly edit them with GIMP.
Good new is that as there is infinity power infinity of multifractals, each one will be necessarily unique.
Bad news is that coaxing out of this infinity compas shapes will be hard work.
I intend to start with compasses and then if I have time, I will try to do some paving and/or map borders.
Intentionnaly I don't add labels so that everybody who would like to use one, can add his own labels.

This first compas has been created with a hyperbolic multifractal.

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