Hano's Edges

[Morshwan]

Hello everybody. I would like to present the first part of my workshop on Hano's Edges.

This is a personal universe built many years ago, and I want now to give it new colours. I am starting with the old folklore and a new cartography. Before starting the long project, I am testing some techniques.

Part 1: Contouring + Colouring
I guess it is the easier part of the job. I have taken a not finished hand-drawn map, and I have digitalized the contours. Else, for the fun, I have coloured the map. In part 2, I will probably try to put mountains and forests.

The three files given are:
- arbre_monde (world tree), the representation of the world (a bad imitation of Yggdrasil in the Norse Mythology).
- kscan_001, the hand-drawn map
- hano_edges 1.1, my first digital try (updated).


I need some informations about the colouring. I would like to know what can I do better.

[crackerjake]

I see those rays in the bottom right hand corner of the first two maps in a lot of maps, what are they for?

[Morshwan]

crackerjake >> That is a good question. Unfortunately, I don't really know. Depending the representation, these rays can help in routing I guess, but for example here: example of rays, I have no ideas.

In my maps, it is for decoration and for helping marines to sail more efficiently. I know, my cartridge is not finished, so there are no scales and no compass rose (it will take place in the meet of all rays).

[Ilkka]

I see those rays in the bottom right hand corner of the first two maps in a lot of maps, what are they for?

Compass directions. They help to put the map in the right angle with reality. A map would be useless for orienteering or navigating without them. Often, maps only have the (magnetic) North indicated, but historical maps for navigation always had N, E, S, W; NE, SE, SW, NW; plus the directions between all these. I don't know if modern navigation maps have all of these.

-ile

[jfrazierjr]

Compass directions. They help to put the map in the right angle with reality. A map would be useless for orienteering or navigating without them. Often, maps only have the (magnetic) North indicated, but historical maps for navigation always had N, E, S, W; NE, SE, SW, NW; plus the directions between all these. I don't know if modern navigation maps have all of these.

-ile

Right... technically, these maps have (clockwise) N, N-NE, NE, E-NE, E, E-SE,SE, S-SE, S, S-SW, SW, W-SW, W, W-NW,NW, N-NW and finally back around to N. Whew... I THINK I got all those right....

Basically. W-NW is More Westerly than North-Westerly, while N-NW is more Northerly than North-Westerly


Though I am in no way a cartography expert, I "expect" where all the points converge is meant to be somewhere on the equator so the East-West line is overlapping the equator.

[waldronate]

The lines are called rhumb lines (lines of constant magnetic bearing). They were used on navigation charts such as portolan charts.

[Morshwan]

Thanks you Waldronate for this enlightenment.

I have updated the map, adding the compass rose and moving lines (so long to correspond with the compass, The Gimp is not very precise).

[crackerjake]

oh, d'oh, thanks

[Ascension]

Very nice, about all I can say is that it's a tad green...maybe a bit more red needed to make it look more like parchment (if you were indeed going for parchment). Otherwise, it looks very good, so kudos.

[Morshwan]

Hi everybody.

I finally found a way to represent the mountains on my map. I need know to think about the trees and the cities.

My only hope is I will not wait for one year to find the key of the problem.

Part 2: Mountains