[TML] A basic quadrant for review

[Knapp]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Infojunky <Infojunky at ceecom.net> wrote:
> Knapp wrote:
>> Just playing with ideas, what do you think?
>>
>
> Good start.

Thanks! I don't think layout is my best skill.

>> The stars are the right sizes relative to each other and the colors
>> are correct according to that color map I posted. The star values are
>> from my system generator that I wrote.
>>
>
> Speaking as a trained cartographer have you considered sizing on a
> logarithmic scale? It would serve to make your smaller star symbols a
> little larger and larger ones more manageable.

I thought about that sort of idea (I was just thinking of clipping the
top and bottoms sizes to a max and min) but log is great. The problem
is that the stars almost not showing up is really what it is like for
them. Also the HUGE blue ones are in stark contrast to the small dots
and give a feel that I might loose with the log idea.

Did you see that I changed the color of the hex numbers to yellow from
white, if there was a star there? Is that to obscure?


>> My subsectors are 10 by 10 with 4 quadrants in each.
>> Sectors are 40x40 hexes.
>>
>> It is for printing on two A4 pages.
>>
>
> I was gonna ask about the reasoning behind the number but I see you have
> given one, and it's a valid choice, lots of people for get to consider
> how something is gonna be displayed when they come up with maps.

I have a few reasons. 5x5 fits nicely on a page with lots of detail
that the 8x10 maps did not have with the simple generators. We now
make maps with computers and have far more data!! It will take a few
pages just for these 13 stars to list all the stars, planets, moons,
and other details. As it is I dropped all the planet and moon info
that I have for this quad. I think I could fill a little black book
with just one quadrant (or maybe 49 stars of the subsector)of 13
stars, If I include all the details of weather, life forms, orbits etc
and that is without human info like governments or adventures. With
this large size I can but a lot of icons in one hex.


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> Evyn




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