Sierra Nevada. So basically completely limited access highway with no at grade crossings or notable traffic. Not exactly stressing the system there.
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#52If you like making fiction maps by hand (but not fantasy maps) - have a look at this great mapping project: Open Geo Fiction: http://www.opengeofiction.net From the about page: "This world is set in modern times, so it doesn't have orcs or elves, but rather power plants, motorways and housing projects. But also picturesque old towns, beautiful national parks and lonely beaches. " It's essentially a fictional OpenStre…
Wow! I was looking for exactly this a few weeks ago for a story I'm writing. Don't know how I never came across this. Thank you so much.
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#53The "improved" blue noise random points at the start would probably be more efficiently generated with Poisson disc sampling.
https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rbridson/docs/bridson-siggraph07-pois...
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#54Even as a child, I found Tolkien's maps of Middle Earth geographically implausible, in terms of river flows and mountain placement.
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#55Wow. I might need to spend some time making a clone of this but geared towards worldmaps like https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/world/
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#56Even as a child, I found Tolkien's maps of Middle Earth geographically implausible, in terms of river flows and mountain placement.
I only really had a problem with the convenient 'box' of mountains around Mordor.
Well, that and the fact that everything was so far apart that the main trilogy spent more pages talking about walking than talking about events :D
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#57It's great for creating your own world. However if you play D&D, chances are you play in Forgotten Realms. In that case you already have the large-scale map, and you want town- and city-scale maps.
Does anyone have a nice pointer toward those?
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#58If the novels were as bad as he says they were, maybe he can crank out some random(ly bad) prose to go with it, and get Amazon-rich. (And/or, this might make an interesting companion project.)
I like it. If we assume that schlock fiction is objectively worse in some measurable way, then that suggests it should be easier to generate than works of high literature. I bet with some concerted effort, it would be possible to build an algorithm which digests a bunch of generic fantasy books and produces a tale of an unlikely group of heroes questing for the $object to turn the tide of $conflict.
For generating the epic campfire poems: http://dmatoso.com/manowar-lyrics-generator/
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#59Your http://mewo2.com/notes/naming-language is equally interesting, great work!
This is great. it can be applied to the startup world for new company names.
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#60If I had this as a kid I would have buried myself in the basement playing D&D for the rest of my life.
For an RPG you can simply take anything from his Twitter bot https://twitter.com/unchartedatlas :)