Recent content by Ashtagon

This one any use? https://www.deviantart.com/ashtagon/art/Behaim-Erdapfel-1492-k7a-735720873

People often say this, but it really isn't true. "Traditional" hanzi didn't really get codified and standardised until around 200 CE. Before that, the writing style was VERY different. It is questionable if someone from 2000 years ago would have been able to read most "traditional hanzi", even...

https://www.deviantart.com/ashtagon/art/The-QBAM-is-wrong-637548686 The above map is of QBAM proportions (ie width, height, and position of the curved edges is QBAM standard). The black lines for coastlines and borders are from standard QBAM maps. The altitude shading is sourced from...

You just know there's going to be a war and subsequent split between East and West Heglibavia.

I'm not sure there's a need for it. It's like defining a colour for places that aren't places. If you draw the border in, you are defining where it is, and hence it is no longer undefined.

A lot of those... aren't exactly Anglo-Saxons. Might want to change the heading on that.

I can confirm that the split predates X2. Light green (111,189,72) was used to indicate Savoy/Piedmont/Sardinia (it was all one kingdom for a long time) by TACOS, GCS, ARCS, RCS, MCS, and CCS. A darker green (0,146,70) was used by GCS for a unified Italy. The rusty brown (153,51,0) was used...

DCS is not my scheme; do what you like with it. The weird-ass formulae for the five-grade colour scheme that seems to have become an informal standard is mine though. However, it may be useful to understand why I went with the formula I did. I started off with a formula that would produce...

Those resources are a mix of jpg, png, and tif (for the stupidly high resolution) files. Any modern image editor can handle the first two, and most good ones can import tif files.

https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/collection/1484/blue-marble has you covered @PecuTheGreat

Something like this?

At the time the map was made, the only European exploration of New Zealand was by Tasman in December 1642, who landed on the NW coast of South Island and then moved northwards. Tasman's voyage is the expedition that confirmed that Asutralia was not connected to the then-unverified south polar...

A re-projection of Jean Lattre's 1762 world map. Technical notes: Unlike previous reprojections of Renaissance/Early Modern maps, I used georeferencing rather than my previous "patchwork quilt" approach. This is a LOT faster and less laborious. However, a) I suspect the lines of latitude may...

Georeference-distorted early modern world maps are my new aesthetic. (For the curious, that's the coast of West Africa inside the heavily-distorted circle.)

OTL, Moscow has held hegemony over Siberia since the 17th century. Before that, to the extent that anyone held a hegemony over Siberia, it was the Mongols. Before them, it was essentially fragmented. ATLs generally present Siberia as Moscow-run. The next most common seems to be either local...