Una the Infinite Archipelago

[swiss]

Nice! That's huge. It has a very google-maps feel to it, all the way down to the font used.

> Additionally, I cut the exported image into 4096, 250 x 250 images and stitched them together as a zoomable google maps like map

Do you have a link to this? That'd be interesting to see how that works. Or is it offline only? How many stitched maps did you have to split it into?

[RobEm]

It looks amazing! I'm very impressed that you managed to name so many of the islands! And the map prompts so many questions!

Is there any water? You mention that "The sky is covered in birds, the ground in birds, and the waters in fish with wings" ..., but I couldn't work out where the fish are, is that because of the scale, have we zoomed out too far to be able to see lakes and rivers? Do islands collide, or do their gemin cores prevent them from crashing? Do islands grow, are larger islands older or are they formed from more powerful gemins?

[SoaringMoon]

Do you have a link to this? That'd be interesting to see how that works. Or is it offline only? How many stitched maps did you have to split it into?

Zoomable Una Map, it is just a single map made of of 4096 images. Google maps works like this, and is just made of trillions of small images.

Is there any water? You mention that "The sky is covered in birds, the ground in birds, and the waters in fish with wings" ..., but I couldn't work out where the fish are, is that because of the scale, have we zoomed out too far to be able to see lakes and rivers? Do islands collide, or do their gemin cores prevent them from crashing? Do islands grow, are larger islands older or are they formed from more powerful gemins?

There is water on the islands, lakes and what you might call rivers. The fish may have evolved to survive outside of the water at least for some amount of time (like the lungfish), but would move from island to island. Some smaller islands could be jumped between salmon style. Some islands have blue gemin cores and just have alot of moisture in and around them or spill a rivers worth of water into the sky. Animal would have to adapt to this threat among others.

Islands do collide. Some islands attract one another (romantically), and become close through "social" means. Islands grow slowly (I mean millions of years), and larger islands can "merge" to become masses, or crystallize together to form a landmass that breaks apart when the gemin move (apart from the wind moving them). Large gemin are not "powerful" they are just contain alot of energy.

I have this excerpt to reference from my "Guide to Gemin Grading".

The Carat [ct] weight of a gemin is not very important. It determines the maximum capacity of magical force the stone can carry, but not the strength of that magical force. It is the capacity of the battery, not the voltage. Larger stones are less common than smaller ones, so larger stones tend to be more valuable. Stones are graded by size their smallest diameter, a good indicator of their maximum potential power output. Generally, gemin work more efficiently when spherical in shape.

Unlike size, color intensity is the greatest indicator of the maximum power output of a gemin. The saturation or vibrancy of the color, and its ability to radiate light a measured in a dark room or box with a polarizing filter. It is graded on a couple total criteria that will class the gemin.

You can read more about gemin grading here.

WOW... just wow! I love islands and this is all islands... this must have taken weeks of time. Makes me want to zoom in and see the city maps and islands in detail!

It took approximately 300 hours, I have been doing this over months as there is alot of lore I have to write as well.