The Daily Render by Nikolas R. Schiller

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Swampoodle Quilt #2

Using this portion of Swampoodle Quilt, I constructed this derivative Dodecagon Quilt Projection map of the area around the 2008 Art-O-Matic venue in the Swampoodle neighborhood in Washington, DC. Up next is second derivative map that samples a portion of this map.

View the Google Map of the Swampoodle neighborhood in Ward 6 of Washington, DC.

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Comments Off || || Posted One Year Ago: enriching results

4/20/2008 || 8:11 pm
Boston Financial District Quilt

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Boston Commons Quilt #2

Continuing my series of maps of Boston, Massachusetts, today’s map features Boston’s Financial District. Using the same Quilt / Lenz hybrid that I first employed in Rochester Quilt #2, I placed a magnifying sphere over the center of the map. This magnified geography in the center of the map features Boston’s Government Center, Faneiul Hall, and the nearby Faneuil Hall Marketplace. As your eye moves away from the center the rest of Boston’s Financial District is revealed.

View the Google Map of Boston’s Financial District.

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12/21/2007 || 2:54 pm
Mount Holyoke Quilt

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Mount Holyoke Quilt

Located in South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College is the first all woman’s school in the United States of America. Founded by Mary Lyon as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, it’s served as a model for how most all women’s schools were formed. I visited the campus when I was a young teen because I was forced to travel with my sisters as they looked at universities to attend. I think I can probably map all of the Seven Sisters colleges in the area! Both of my sisters ended up attending Mount Holyoke College and I last visited it in 2000 at my sisters graduation. As for the map, the source aerial photography is a bit grainy, but it works [meta-data forthcoming]. I like the way the dodecagon came out and up next will be a diamond.

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12/18/2007 || 11:19 am
Rochester Quilt #2

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Rochester Quilt #2

This map features the transparent sphere originally used in the Lenz Project. By placing the sphere on the map, it magnifies whatever region it is placed over, and for this map it’s been placed at the center. I rendered the map at 150 megapixels instead of the standard 216 because I did not want to over-project area within the Lenz. As in, if the sphere magnifies the raster map too much it will cause it to blur when projected at a large size, so by limiting the size of the map I prevented the level of potential blurriness. The last map I made that used this process was the Pentagon Spheres, but this is first time I’ve used the Lenz at the center of a dodecagon quilt projection map. I hope to use this technique more in the future.

View the Google Map of the Rochester, New York

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12/13/2007 || 3:56 pm
Clayton Quilt #2

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Clayton Quilt

Read more about Clayton, Missouri here

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Comments Off || || Posted One Year Ago: Baton Rouge Quilt - An Oil Refinery Reflection

11/9/2007 || 4:20 pm
Stuyvesant Quilt

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Stuyvesant Quilt

notes forthcoming…

View the Google Map of the Stuyvesant Town- Patrick Cooper neighborhood in Manhattan.

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10/30/2007 || 2:15 pm
Mount Vernon Quilt #3

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Mount Vernon Quilt #3

Using this portion of Mount Vernon Quilt #2, I created a derivative tessellation to create this fractal map. Up next I have another map of Mount Vernon based off of a third dervative tessellation created from this map. The aim is to isolate the area around Baltimore’s Washington Monument.

Unlike previous fractal maps, I have made a slight correction to the source imagery. Earlier this year I discovered how my quilt projection template slightly over-projects the imagery. To combat this, I tried something new with this map. Prior to tessellation, I reduced the source imagery about 10 pixels (or about .003%). I am not sure how much it helped, since I am not exactly sure how much I have over-projected the imagery, but I think I’ll do this from now on.

View the Google Map of the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland

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7/30/2007 || 5:37 pm
Jacksonville Quilt

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In an effort to cover more areas that have available imagery that I haven’t mapped yet, I decided to make a couple maps of Jacksonville, Florida. Prior to downloading the Jacksonville imagery I made an attempt to get some imagery of Connecticut because I have yet to map the Constitution State. However, there was only black & white imagery and false color imagery, both of which I don’t like to use.

When preparing to download the Jacksonville imagery I had the choice to download .3 meter imagery from 2004 and 1 foot imagery from 2005. Both equal roughly the same spatial resolution (.3 meters = about 1 foot), but what I discovered after viewing the imagery was that Google is currently using the 2004 imagery. Thus I chose to use the 2005 imagery so that I can add another city where I beat Google to the map.

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Comments Off || || Posted One Year Ago: invited again?

7/25/2007 || 12:50 pm
Racine Quilt

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After years of waiting I finally have color aerial photography of Wisconsin available to use. Green Bay is still not available to download and Milwaulkee’s imagery is a bit colorless (but not black & white), so I doubt I’ll be making anymore from this state for a little bit. Regardless, I am happy to have made a map for the state of Wisconsin.

View the Google Map of Racine, Wisconsin.

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Comments Off || || Posted One Year Ago: off by 2 minutes, Woodley Park Quilt

6/22/2007 || 3:14 pm
University of Texas at Austin Quilt #2

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Read more about the process used to make the map here.

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Comments Off || || Posted One Year Ago: Nikolas Schiller in Arabic

6/15/2007 || 9:55 am
UC Boulder Quilt

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View the Google Map of the University of Colorado at Boulder

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5/5/2007 || 6:12 pm
San Antonio Quilt #2

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View the Google Map of downtown San Antonio, Texas.

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Comments Off || || Posted One Year Ago: RFK Quilt #2

5/1/2007 || 7:17 am
MacArthur Maze Quilt

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Tanker fire destroys part of MacArthur Maze - 2 freeways closed near Bay Bridge

This is the area photographed in February of 2004 by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and distributed by the United States Geological Survey.

View the Google Map of interchange of interstates 580 and 980 and state Highway 24 in Oakland, California.

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Comments Off || || Posted One Year Ago: Columbia Heights Quilt #2

4/27/2007 || 7:33 am
University of Southern California Quilt

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These two maps of the University of Southern California will be the last of Los Angeles for a bit. I am surprised by the amount of maps I have made of this sprawling city! Moreover, I see myself remapping much of the city in the not-so-distant future. There is a lot of places here left to discover. As for USC, I think it’s quite interesting how condensed the University Park Campus is. I thought GWU’s urban location was slighly cramped, but this university was able to fit a lot into a small area.

View the Google Map of University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California.

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Comments Off || || Posted One Year Ago: C.I.A. Quilt #2

1/22/2007 || 9:31 am
Polar Coordinates of Harvard University [dodecagon]

4 tiled map

8 polar coordinate maps using a zoom of Harvard Quilt - NW.

Read more about the process involved to make these here.

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Comments Off || || Posted One Year Ago: Portland Quilt #2

12/13/2006 || 12:53 am
Baton Rouge Quilt - An Oil Refinery Reflection

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Like the “Icositetragon of Northwestern Station in Chicago,” I am not including another company’s name for the title of this map. It’s the worst polluter in the world…

View the Google Map of Baton Rouge’s petrochemical alley.

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Comments Off || || Posted One Year Ago: Blue Marble Beauty

12/9/2006 || 10:50 am
Park La Brea Quilt #2

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Park La Brea’s geometric design allows for some excellent manipulations. For the first time in a VERY long time I’ve decided to create not one, but two fractals of a specific location. Number 3 will be up shortly…

View the Google Map of Park La Brea, Los Angeles, California.

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Comments Off || || Posted One Year Ago: Adam Eidinger vs. the Expert - CNN January 2003

12/8/2006 || 10:42 am
Park La Brea Quilt

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View the Google Map of Park La Brea, Los Angeles, California.

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Comments Off || || Posted One Year Ago: Cultural Caucus?, 14%

11/16/2006 || 12:46 pm
Washington Highlands Quilt #2

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View the Google Map of Washington Highlands in Ward 8, Washington, DC.

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11/14/2006 || 2:32 pm
Alexandria Quilt - West #2 (1st Derivative)

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View the Google Map of Alexandria, Virginia.

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Comments Off || || Posted One Year Ago: preparing..., USDA, where is your organic?

11/10/2006 || 9:26 am
Bethesda Quilt #2

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I scaled this one slightly to show more of the area. The goal was to create a full circle out of the school’s track.

View the Google Map of Bethesda, Maryland.

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Comments Off || || Posted One Year Ago: Brown Bag Series

9/1/2006 || 8:19 pm
Cheyenne Quilt #2

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I like how this 6 seamed quilt turned out… I can almost count the number of capital buildings.

View the Google Map of Cheyenne, Wyoming.

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Comments Off || || Posted One Year Ago: U St. NW

8/23/2006 || 3:03 pm
An Interchange in Omaha

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Well not just some random interchange, it’s the confluence of Highway 75 and Interstate 480 - aka the Gerald Ford Freeway. There are two main comments about this map. One is about design and the other is about the subject. To start, the design is slightly flawed! Well it looks perfect from a 1:15 scale, but it’s one pixel off! When I was tessellating the photograph, I accidentally left one extra pixel on the seams of the tile. So when you zoom into the map, you see this small white line on the seams. It looks cool, but it’s not perfectly seamless like the rest. As for the subject, I didn’t know it when I was making the tile, but Gerald Ford has been in the hospital recently and the interstate that makes up half of this map is named after him.

View the Google Map of the interchange of Highway 75 & the Gerald Ford Freeway (I-480).

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Comments Off || || Posted One Year Ago: Washington Monument Zoom

8/9/2006 || 2:02 pm
Bismarck Quilt #2

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View the Google Map of Bismarck, North Dakota.

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Comments Off || || Posted One Year Ago: Mall Mountain

8/6/2006 || 1:57 pm
Infinite Delmar Loop #2

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View the Google Map of Delmar Loop in University City, Missouri.

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7/24/2006 || 8:07 am
Howard University Quilt #2

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View the Google Map of Howard University in Washington, DC.

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Comments Off || || Posted One Year Ago: I'm off google

7/22/2006 || 8:46 am
American University Quilt #2

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View the Google Map of American University in Washington, DC.

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Comments Off || || Posted One Year Ago: The Washington National Cathedral Lenz

3/2/2006 || 8:59 am
Harvard Quilt - NE

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A friend of mine that I have been spending a lot of time with lately graduated from Harvard a few years ago. When I told her that I was going to make a map of Harvard she showed me which dorm she lived in. When I set up the tessellation I tried my best to place her dorm, the Dunster House, near the seam on the NE & NW tessellations. The SE & SW tessellations placed her dorm on the edges of the tessellation, so I haven’t got around to making those two maps yet, but I plan on it.

One of my favorite aspects of my map making activities is seeing how the final product turns out. Where will the seams line up? What buildings will get reflected along a line of symmetry? What part of the map will be the most beautiful? Will I find a random reflection? etc. etc. It turns out that this map and the following map, have her former dorm placed beautifully. I also broke away from the standard 2 / 3 / 4 seamed maps, and made 6 seamed map, and I must say that I very happy with how this map turned out. Check the details to see what I’m talking about!

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