[projectaon] Re: Flowcharts
- From: Sam Seaver <samseaver@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:12:39 -0600
The first thing that came to mind was cartesian co-ordinates. If we have a
global reference (latitude, longitude) for the world of Magnamund, you'd
simply be able to assign a co-ordinate to a section number.
If you did that, then someone would be able to use the Google Maps API to
overlay the section co-ordinates on the original map(s)...
S
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Timothy Pederick <pederick@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> On 25 November 2012 23:51, David Davis <feline1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> One really nice way to go to town on that idea would be for sections in
>> the book that have illustrations: perhaps a thumbnail of the illustration
>> could be imbedded in SVG?
>> (sorry, I am getting into the realms of ludicrous blue-skying now ;)
>>
>
> Ludicrous? Pfft. I've periodically had an idea -- and somewhere around
> here I still have some preliminary sketches -- for fully-illustrated
> flowchart-maps. That is, a map of the region covered by a given book, with
> each section number positioned in a more or less geographically appropriate
> location (with detailed insets for where multiple sections happen too close
> together to be at the same scale as the rest of the map), plus little
> illustrations (like you see on old maps or the colour ones from *The
> Magnamund Companion*) to go with events at each location. I have neither
> the artistic skill nor the persistence to have pulled this off so far, but
> maybe some day...
>
> Now *that's* ludicrous blue-skying. :-P
>
> --
> Tim Pederick
>
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