Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Link Round-Up: July 1, 2014




An Open Letter to the Guy Reading A Game of Thrones While Driving

The Awl reflects on the color of the Internet.  Shockingly, it's not vomit-colored.

Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes ring a bell?) made a stealth return to comics, fulfilling the childhood dreams of one cartoonist and making the rest of us run to the attic to unearth our copies of Something Under the Bed is Drooling.

Building a plausible world: a step-by-step tutorial for a Planet in 12 Photoshop Layers from plate tectonics to trade winds using G.Projector, the free NASA software to project their rectilinear map onto a globe. [More]  There's a free program called AutoREALM which will handle the measurement part. You set the underlying scale and draw a route. It will derive the travel time by foot, horse, cart, and ship, for a variety of loads, paces, and conditions. Fractal World Explorer can generate very basic climates and apply erosion to landmasses accordingly.

Download your own Oblivion Drone Papercraft Model


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