<!>The Map Thread (2015-02-01 22:47:25)
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? dhok posts: 235
, Alkali Metal, Norman, United States
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I finally have a rough-sketch map of Páho!

Plates and mountains:

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Climate:

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Color key:

-Grey is ice cap
-Dark purple is tundra
-Light purple is taiga
-Dark cyan is "icky marine", like Kerguelen or the Faroes
-Light cyan is "normal marine," like Ireland or Britain
-Navy blue is humid continental
-Green-yellow is Mediterranean
-Burgundy is laurisilvan, like the Azores or Madeira
-Light green is humid subtropical
-Brown is steppe
-Salmon is savanna
-Light yellow is desert
-Greyish green is tropical wet-and-dry
-Dark green is tropical rainforest.

Note that Páho rotates opposite of Earth. It's also bigger, though I'm not sure by how much, still. I'm thinking a radius of 8000 to 9000km, so about one and a half times that of Earth.

Since this map is fugly, but still tells us a lot, the next step is to clear out everything but the continent outlines, then blow up the image by a factor of four (two in each dimension), add some noise to the coastlines, use magic wand to find new, more exciting coastlines, and add more islands since at this resolution I can really only do the larger ones.