Andrew's Website

This is my website, where I want to show cool stuff.

This is a part of my project to create a fantasy world that looks like ours if you squint at it, but on closer inspection is very different. I constructed it by taking a high resolution map of the world from NASA's Visible Earth Catalog called "Explorer Base Map" and importing it into NASA's GProjector software. I then divided the world up into many regions and exported an Azimuthal Equal Area projection, with an 8 degree edge angle, of the region. I edited each of the exported images to remove the water as best as possible while maintaining the coastline shapes from the original exports, so that each image would just be land on a transparent background. I created my new continent image file. I used a reference image of the continent I was working on to get a general idea of the original shape of the coastlines. These were again Azimuthal Equal Area Projections, this time with an edge angle of 80 degrees. I believe all continent images are taken centered on 15 degrees North, and with longitudes of -80, somewhere around 0-10, and 100 degrees, for the Americas, Europe and Africa, and Asia and Oceania, respectively. I cut out portions of the regions and placed them in their own layer, labelled with a name associated with where the cut out piece originally was located, for example: "Melbourne", "East Korea", "Anzhu Islands", "Papua New Guinea South Central". I would then position the cut out piece of land based on where I felt it looked aesthetically pleasing. Once I had all the coastline of my new fantasy continent covered with pieces of coastline from our world, I would then merge all the layers of the pieces so that I could select the empty space in the image. On a new layer the empty space selection would then be considered water and filled with a blue color and I would deselect and then fill the non-blue space with a green to represent land. For lakes and inland water bodies, I would use a different shade of blue to help distinguish them. Once a continent was done, I stitched it into a large image with all the continents to create my final fantasy world!

In this fantasy world, there are four major areas: Arcadia, in the Western Hemisphere replacing North and South America; Titania, in the North Central area of the map substituting Europe; Nadoria, in the Center of the map taking the place of Africa; and Ionia, in the Eastern Hemisphere taking the place of Asia and Oceania.

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