Archive for January 2009

Current diversions: metro maps and self maps

Two ongoing things are keeping me entertained in my spare time these days. AUTOMATED METRO MAP GENERATION Metro or subway maps are cool. They’re simple, effective topological diagrams showing you how to get from Point A to Point B in the system. And, I might add, they make great symbols of the cities whose metro […]

This is why I’m allowed to call myself a cartographer

Two reasons: I once attempted to draw a map of Wisconsin by hand, for no particular reason. I’m writing a stupid blog post about it. It’s freehand, of course employing the help of a grid that was also overlaid on a map used for reference. You know it’s hand-drawn because of the requisite old-timey coastal […]

ActionScript curves update

I finally opened my CubicBezier AS3 class, the only reason anyone ever finds this site at all, for the first time in many months to attempt to address some of the various comments and reported problems from the original. It’s not perfected, but I’ve done three things: Added a “moveTo” argument to the curveThroughPoints method, […]