Cartography of Non-Spherical Worlds

[Nyrath]

http://publish.uwo.ca/~pjstooke/plancart.htm

 

This is a series of maps of various tiny moons in the Solar System (e.g., Phobos, Deimos, various asteroids).

 

Print a hex grid on top and you are good to go.

 

Could come in handy if you were making an Asteroid Miner campaign, or trying to re-create the short story "Hide and Seek" by Arthur C. Clarke.

 

And here are some planetary maps

http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/sos/sos.html

[Nyrath]

Re: Cartography of Non-Spherical Worlds

 

Remember those "Traveller RPG" planetary maps that were unfolded icosahedrons (20-sided die)?

 

You can turn the planetary maps into such maps using a commercial plug in called "Flexify 2". It works with Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, and other graphic programs.

http://www.flamingpear.com/flexify.html

 

(scroll down to icomap)

http://www.flamingpear.com/gallery96.html

[StGrimblefig]

Re: Cartography of Non-Spherical Worlds

 

There was a microgame wargame by Metagaming back in the 80's that was set on a toroidal (donut-shaped) asteroid with a black hole in the "hole." I cannot remember the name of the game, now.

 

Of course, they just used a normal hex map and allowed movement off of any map edge to continue on the opposite edge, but still.

[Nyrath]

Re: Cartography of Non-Spherical Worlds

 

There was a microgame wargame by Metagaming back in the 80's that was set on a toroidal (donut-shaped) asteroid with a black hole in the "hole." I cannot remember the name of the game' date=' now.[/quote']

 

Well, as it turns out the name was "Black Hole". In the introductory story, the black hole is accidentally discovered by an astronaut named "Winchell Dunkin", who was named after me.

 

Of course' date=' they just used a normal hex map and allowed movement off of any map edge to continue on the opposite edge, but still.[/quote']

Yes, that turns the map into the functional equivalent of a torus.

In SPI's StarSoldier, one of the scenarios has the map linked top to bottom, to simulate an assault on a cylinder shaped asteroid.

 

But more the point, in Metagaming's The Air Eaters Strike Back, the game map has tiny world maps of some of the larger solar system moons.

 

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/92546

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/495017

[clsage]

Re: Cartography of Non-Spherical Worlds

 

And here are some planetary maps

http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/sos/sos.html

 

Such an excellent site sir......would that I could rep you at the moment.

 

-Carl-