{"id":1806,"date":"2023-02-06T08:20:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T22:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2023-02-06T08:20:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T22:50:22","slug":"mokuy-australia-hex-mapping-hex-describe-and-hex-mapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/06\/mokuy-australia-hex-mapping-hex-describe-and-hex-mapper\/","title":{"rendered":"Mokuy – Australia hex mapping, Hex Describe and Hex Mapper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alex Schroeder has an ‘Alpine’ hex map generation option in https:\/\/campaignwiki.org\/hex-describe\/<\/a> . This allows you to tweak heights for maps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also in TextMapper<\/a> similarly. However, his native Switzerland and Australia are somewhat different in size and smoothness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are great and the code is also here:- https:\/\/github.com\/kensanata?tab=repositories<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Austrlia
Australia DTM Histogram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\"Switzerland
Switzerland DTM stats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You can see the power law distribution dropoff for Australian terrain, whereas Switzerland is much more elevated. e.g. Australia is an old, worn down continent, geologically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alex Schroeder has an ‘Alpine’ hex map generation option in https:\/\/campaignwiki.org\/hex-describe\/ . This allows you to tweak heights for maps. Also in TextMapper similarly. However, his native Switzerland and Australia are somewhat different in size and smoothness. These are great and the code is also here:- https:\/\/github.com\/kensanata?tab=repositories You can see the power law distribution dropoff … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Mokuy – Australia hex mapping, Hex Describe and Hex Mapper”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[217,3],"tags":[134,508,293,394],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paET2V-t8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1533,"url":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/29\/dungeon23-mokuy-hex-map-australia-version-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":1806,"position":0},"title":"Dungeon23 – Mokuy hex map Australia – version 1","author":"richard","date":"December 29, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Not actually called Australia circa 1830 of course, but for reference. 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