![]() Theres a map, a landscape seemly infinite (Probably loop, might be like a planet), but we don't see it like a specific 2d or 3d map. Imagine a sonar or radio, where you have to fiddle with chanels and wavelengths to find what you're looking for- multiply those throught a range of soundvisual behaviours and you get Mu Cartographer. ![]() It feels like a puzzle game but its a navigation game (the only one i know of) - only thing is instead of a map, compass and the like we're exploring a alien landscape with equally alien tools Mu cartographer is a puzzle, like a puzzle box - but that wouldn't fit either Its not like single-puzzle games (where levels are the same puzzle only harder) nor like multi puzzle ones (that are random puzzles barely tied together). Its a experimental game only for us, because its all about experimenting with the game. It may have emerged involuntarily as a consequence of the mapmaking methods used by the map’s author, but the historical context of the chart suggests that it was probably the result of a deliberate choice by the cartographer.Its like NOTHING i ever saw on gaming- and of all the avant gard/experimental indies ive seen (majority aiming at art or experience instead of 'game') this is probably the most suscessful in tieing things together. The underlying projection found for La Cosa’s map has a simple geometric interpretation and is relatively easy to compute, but has not been described in detail until now. Other important findings are that scale is mathematically consistent across the whole Atlantic basin, and that the line labeled cancro on the map does not represent the Tropic of Cancer, as usually assumed, but the ecliptic. ![]() The results obtained show that La Cosa’s latitudes are in fact reasonably accurate between the English Channel and the Congo River for the Old World, and also between Cuba and the Amazon River for the New World. In this study, a mathematical methodology is applied to identify the underlying cartographic projection of the Atlantic region of the map, and to evaluate its latitudinal and longitudinal accuracy. ![]() Previous cartographic studies of the 1500 map by Juan de La Cosa have found substantial and difficult-to explain errors in latitude, especially for the Antilles and the Caribbean coast. ![]()
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