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I came across this on Amazon.co.uk: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bookseries/B08WJR12ML/ref=dp_st_3740772514 All in German, and the maps were apparently published on Deviant Art. Does anyone know more about it?

In the 'engineering a planet' thread Azardin was the one who used to design climate zones based on map. Perhaps he would be willing to give his opinion. I checked, and he is still active on this forum.

VulcanTrekkie45, I am afraid I do no have the time for that. In truth, the reason I programmed the 'rectification' of your nap was because I was curious whether I could. But as far as producing good-looking maps is concerned, you will have to find out by learning to use a graphics program. The...

After that, I added white zones to the top and the bottom where you could conceivably fill in the missing portions of the map. I then reshaped it to conform to the 2:1 ratio Celestia needs. EDITED: For same reason I cannot show this map; I do not know why; the section is the same as in the...

Well, I tried to warp your map with Photoshop to get a rectangular shape but could not control the shape well enough. I tried with a little Matlab programming, in which I removed the white portions of the map and stretched the remainder. There is an odd distortion in parts of the map that I can...

I guess I could try. But for a planetary surface you need a map that extends all the way to the poles. Yours has more than one continent that is cut off by the top or bottom margins of the map, meaning the map does not show all of your world. After turning it in a rectangular shape you would...

If you wish to transfer a planetary map to Celestia, using a Mercator projection is a bad idea, as Celestia uses the much easier 'plate carrée' projection. A long time ago I posted some hints on how to use Celestia in this very same thread, but the images are long gone. I recently wrote a...

True. I can restore the tilt to 23.5 degrees. As for the rings, can you give me the inner and our rims? You can use kilometers or, preferably, you can express them in terms of the radius of Earth (for example: inner rim 1.5 radius, outer rim 2.0 diameter)

Hi VulcanTrekkie45, I only saw that just now. If you would have mentioned where you got it from someone might have directed you to me. You could also have left a message on my site... Anyway, I guess you did not know that I was the creator of that animation, which means that, yes, I could make...

Shevek, That's several hours' worth of questions, as well as answers! The thing is, I haven't got much time to answer you right now. I will get back to you later though...

Hmm; you do know there are sites out there that deal with alternate evolution. I guess? http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/forum/236074/ http://sagan4.com/test/?page_id=2 And for my own sites, see the signature...

The problem with the Robinson projection almost everyone seems to be using on this forum is that the outline is missing. :( By using a rectangular outline instead of the rounded shape the impression is created that there are sea areas where none exist. It may also suggest that you can just cut...

That's funny; last Saturday I was at the FNAC (at Ternes...) specifically to pick up some 'bandes dessinées' (BD; I always do that when I am in Paris) when I saw the Jour J series for the first time. I bought the 'Russians on the moon' album and was thinking of putting up a message here, but was...

"The Republic of Ireland can support by the measure of its arable land 6,936,330 people, while the Netherlands by the same measurement can support 4,390,180." Careful with such considerations: the Netherlands, with some 17 million people living in a small area, is a large net food exporter...

I think you need Azardin for that. In the beginning of this thread you will find clues and links on how to do it. All I can do is to give you an answer to a question you did not ask... Keep in mind that anything you draw on a flat map will be much distorted on a globe. If you wish to learn how...