Forty-ninth step revision:
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This step updates the world icons for the Trin's Veil subsector using my
New Colors icon set that I am proposing be rolled out more broadly on Travellermap as an alternative option feature.
See posts
#133,
#134,
#137 and
#146 to review world icon color scheme guide.
Italics as well as
Underlined Italics for are used for mainworld names as markers for Population: 5-6 (Non-industrialized) as well as Population: 4- (Low Population, Non-Industrialized) UWPs, respectively.
NO EDITS Travellermap source:
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I recommend opening both png images in adjacent tabs in your web browser and then flipping back and forth between them to see
just how many edits and changes I was forced to make just to reach this stage of the editing process (and I'm now almost done!
).
Well.
This actually turned out better than I had been hoping or even anticipating.
Even though I've directly edited more than a majority of the visual information available in my sector map revision for the
Spinward Marches in 1105 based on LBB S3 (with some fixes and corrections thrown in for good measure) ... and in the process coming up with a whole new color scheme and visual language for displaying information in a readily accessible format on the sector map ... when I look at the results, there is one word that comes to mind when I look at the sector map that I've made.
HOME.
Reaching this stage in this project ... it really does feel like
I've finally come home to the place that I remember and became so familiar with.
Back in the early 80s, I'd try to get my hands on 8.5x11 blank hex map sheets and using pencil and ink recreate the LBB S3 Spinward Marches on paper (just dots and lines for the express networks) to get a "feel" for the larger context of the sector as a whole ... and always get frustrated when I made a mistake and had to throw away that sheet of paper and start over
.
Now, in 2023 ... I have access to better toys and tools ... and can basically do a modernized version of that exercise on a 5k screen with image editing using the Preview application on my M2 Mac Mini computer. Basically the difference between TL=6 and TL=8 with regards to materials and methods (paper vs data).
Using adjustments to the typeface of mainworld names to extend the paradigm along a continuum from High Population down to Low Population was the right choice.
Modulating the color scheme/formula to include both trade code and environmental relevant categories that would be important for navigators and starship captains to know and working out a method where it can all be viewed simultaneously in a simplified yet still information dense visual format symbology was also the right choice.
And it's a little humbling to realize that it's taken me over 40 years(!) to reach the culmination of my earliest efforts of (re)mapping the
Spinward Marches in 1105 like I've been able to here.
Going to take a pause to review, cross-correlate and proofread all of the information and data that I've compiled up to this point. Once I give all of that a final pass through the fine toothed comb to weed out any remaining errors and inconsistencies, I'll finish up with a final draft post.
I wonder if I should put that final draft post into a new thread, along with all the edited world icon images, which could then be optionally pinned somewhere in the CotI forums (somewhere) if the staff (and Marc?) deem my endeavors worthy of the honor?
And yes ... there's a reason why I chose
@Spinward Flow as my forum handle.
pirate 
