Oct / Nov '17 Lite Challenge: Map an Island - Pick a Shape

[Bogie]

Before I start digging into this, I have a question. Do we have to use the given orientation or can we rotate the shapes to fit a personal vision. Obviously the actual shape would have to be maintained and recognizable but being able to reorient things might be helpful for some.

You can rotate them, just keep the original shape.

[Bogie]

That's a peculiar set of glaciated terrains. It's sad the way you lopped the western bit off of Devon Island, though. The Mercator projection throws things off a bit, too.

[edit] I see, you chopped up all of the islands. Somerset is missing its whole southern half! Wait, Melville is intact. Prince of Wales seems to have undergone a bit of a rotation, though.

Ding Ding Ding!! Bonus points. Yeah I had to alter them a little to make them fit and get rid of some Google labels.

Redrobes got it also!! But I think he needs some deep therapy,,

[Mouse]

Well when I look at the first one I see a voluptuous woman. For the second one I also see a voluptuous woman, the third I see more of a young woman pouting and the fourth is more like the first voluptuous woman only in a different pose.

Do I have a problem doc ?

I guess we can be fairly certain that you are absolutely 100% obsessed with butterflies, then

And that entry is cheating. You already made it! Er... I mean it was made a few million years ago! LOL!

[Redrobes]

I got it from Waldronates post. And yeah I need some therapy And for my entry I think I will use a Wacom Tablet and a satellite !

But what may be cool is that since they are real places, I think I might have the height maps for them. If I dont have to go through the tedious bit of making the height map for the land then I think there maybe some life from me in this one. Not sure tho because SRTM only went up so far given that the shuttle flies on a wibbly line +/- about 60 degrees or so. These islands might be a bit too far north for SRTM. I have another source tho and I thought that one was global. I need to check. Its been a while since I have had to convert any real DEM data.

[Straf]

Ah I thought they were bits chopped off Alaska until I went and checked.

[Greason Wolfe]

Voluptuous women? Realy? All I saw were evil, toy soldier eating teddy bears. Though they might also have been voluptouos butterflys and elephants. Difficult to say sometimes.

Rotate okay, aye. Gonna play with these shapes when in get home from work today and see if inspiration strikes.

[Straf]

Are we allowed to add bits, like other smaller islands or are we restricted to just the dark shape?

[Greason Wolfe]

So after a little time spent taking this mini Rorschach test, island blot 1 has gotten into my head and is speaking to me. It is telling me to throw my hat in on this one and promising me that work won't waylay me again before I have a chance to finish (yeah right). Gonna run this one through terragen and play around with some textures I made about a year ago for just this sort of thing.

Wish me luck. I don't have much hair left and if work drags me away from this again, I may not have ANY hair left.

[mixerbach]

Are we allowed to add bits, like other smaller islands or are we restricted to just the dark shape?

I would say it's always better to beg forgiveness than ask permission, Straf.
Note: My authority in this forum is absolute zero.

[Bogie]

Are we allowed to add bits, like other smaller islands or are we restricted to just the dark shape?

I would say it is OK to add some smaller islands to the map as long as one of the primary island shapes is the main focus of the map.