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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Just a Test
I just learned something about Mathematica which could make doing things on this sometimes very math – heavy page a little easier. I can save formulae from my mathematica notebook as LaTeX strings as described by mdawaffe here and in … Continue reading
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Astrographer’s Notebook – Introduction
I have an enormous collection of worldbuilding notes strewn across my desk, a dozen three-ring binders, a similar number of nice colored folders, and piled up in my book cases. These vary considerably in nature. Some are fairly extensive and … Continue reading
Linkfest – Terrain Edition
The Synthesis and Rendering of Eroded Fractal Terrains(1989) – The classic by Musgrave, Kolb and Mace. This was a real find. While I’ve kind of given up on using procedural methods to generate global terrains, I still use procedurals quite a bit to … Continue reading
Posted in Links, Mapping, Planetary Stuff, World Building
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The Design Cycle
The back and forth process of returning the imagination to worldbuilding. Continue reading
Posted in Projects, Science Fiction, World Building, Writing
Tagged astrographer, concultures, conworld, conworlding, World Building, worldbuilding, writing
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2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,600 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it … Continue reading
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