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Originally Posted by WoodytheClimateGuy Hello! I am working on my second map project overall, but this is my first original map project, called Woodiea. The goal of creating this world is to create a Koppen climate map as well as realistic map. Hello! I am making a map of a fictional world, dubbed Woodiea. In honor of my birthday, here is the first progress update of the revised version of Woodiea. Original: North Pole: ...
Updated 05-04-2022 at 09:28 PM by WoodytheClimateGuy
I was pointed at this informative video from Gleb Alexandrov who is showing how anyone with a suitable CUDA enabled machine can do some nice 3D object generation using all free open source tools - but principally Meshroom and Blender. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3lhPKF8qjU The video has some useful tips about improving the generation of the model in Meshroom by inserting some custom steps into the standard path and then also goes into some considerable depth about ...
I am a travelling, artistic, handi-craftsman I am a skilled illustrator, and impassioned writer, with a prevailing fascination for collecting, interpreting, and consolidating an archive for observational, applied, field-research analysis; to be utilized for a broad spectrum of spacial, statistical, and referential transcription renditions. These serve as intellectual apogee's in portraying theoretical, philosophical, and experimental "~territories~", for ...
So instead of cutting down the trees in my backyard to supply me with paper for all my revisions, I decided to just go digital. It definitely made things easier to tweak and play around with to get a coastline I was happy with. It was kind of a double edged sword because I noodled around with it for so long, and the app I used really let me get lost in sub-pixel-change game for way long than I ever should of. Anyway, I really wanted a version of this map to be the version. A objective, absolute ...
I'm positive nobody is reading this but that is okay. Ideal actually. I am just starting out in a new hobby which is obviously cartography. Instead of posting a new thread every time I draw a crappy map, I can just update my progress with a new blog entry. In addition I can kind of just think out loud about my thought process and whatever when I update it. I know nobody is going to want to hear me blab about this in my personal life; not until they see my epic super maps anyway. ...
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