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Re: Woodcut Maps: Handcrafted wood-inlay maps, designed by you

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Post by gabesmed » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 6:17 AM UTC

joel_SF wrote: post #80

Beautiful work! What kind of finish is used to seal and protect the final piece?

It's called Emmet's "The Good Stuff" - a gel urethane that gives a nice warm glow to the wood, is easy to apply, quick-drying, and not unpleasant or dangerous to breathe. (we work out of our cottage, so no professional ventilation systems for us!) http://www.mapleblock.com/detail/butcher-block-finishes-39/

Re: Woodcut Maps: Handcrafted wood-inlay maps, designed by you

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Post by gabesmed » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 6:19 AM UTC

sycren wrote: post #68

_gabesmed wrote: post #21

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Yup. The settings are tuned for maps right now, but we can take any raster image with up to four b&w layers and send it through the same process.

Would it not be possible to render on the client side with html5 canvas to decrease the load on the server?

Yeah, this would be great to have, especially for live previewing of different material combinations. Would require a major rev of the interface/rendering though, so didn't make the cut for launch.

Re: Woodcut Maps: Handcrafted wood-inlay maps, designed by you

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Post by asmosoinio » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 7:06 AM UTC

tricolon wrote: post #77

asmosoinio wrote: post #65

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No-procast: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3763855 Edit: Longer version: It is because of his noprocast setting.

I was impossibly confused until I realized you meant to write "noprocrast". As in "no procrastination".

Thanks for pointing that out! I don't think I have ever written the word procrastination myself, so wasn't even aware of the spelling mistake I made.

Re: Woodcut Maps: Handcrafted wood-inlay maps, designed by you

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Post by sycren » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 11:43 AM UTC

gabesmed wrote: post #82

sycren wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would it not be possible to render on the client side with html5 canvas to decrease the load on the server?

Yeah, this would be great to have, especially for live previewing of different material combinations. Would require a major rev of the interface/rendering though, so didn't make the cut for launch.

Maybe in a future version then? It seemed like it could be quite easy to sort out with open street maps which I think is already possible to do through canvas.

Perhaps another idea though would be to make your own stylised maps with Mapbox http://mapbox.com/ with OSM so you could print out more stylised maps ;)