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Hartford Quilt #3
|| 1/16/2017 || 11:11 pm || + Render A Comment || ||

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Hartford Quilt #2 by Nikolas Schiller

This final iteration looks kind of like Turkey Tail mushrooms.

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Detail of Hartford Quilt #3 by Nikolas Schiller

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Hartford Quilt #2
|| 1/15/2017 || 11:00 pm || + Render A Comment || ||

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Hartford Quilt #2 by Nikolas Schiller

I sampled a portion of Hartford Quilt to make this second iteration.

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Detail of Hartford Quilt #2 by Nikolas Schiller

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Hartford Quilt
|| 1/14/2017 || 10:46 pm || Comments Off on Hartford Quilt || ||

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Hartford Quilt by Nikolas Schiller

After taking a nearly 6 year break, I bought an old computer that ran Mac OS X 10.6, installed the old software, and now resuming making my renderings. This is my first rendering of the fine state of Connecticut.

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Detail of Hartford Quilt by Nikolas Schiller

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Calvert Cliffs Quilt
|| 4/10/2011 || 3:37 pm || + Render A Comment || ||

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Calvert Cliffs Quilt by Nikolas Schiller

I’m not a fan nuclear power. While it happens to be one of the cheapest fuel that is known to man, its also the most deadly. Years ago I made my first map of a U.S. nuclear reactor, Enrico Fermi Nuclear Reactor Quilt, and then followed it up with “Terra Fermi,” an interactive Google Earth Globe, to highlight this intrinsic danger. Given the ease in which the imagery of nuclear power plants can be obtained, I intend to make more maps of nuclear reactors to highlight their fragile existence.

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Detail of Calvert Cliffs Quilt by Nikolas Schiller

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Madison Quilt
|| 3/8/2011 || 4:03 pm || + Render A Comment || ||

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Madison Quilt by Nikolas Schiller

Using a portion of Madison Offset, I created a couple more tessellations and ultimately this fractal Octagon Quilt Projection Map.

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Detail of Madison Quilt by Nikolas Schiller

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Montpelier Quilt #3
|| 2/1/2011 || 12:58 pm || + Render A Comment || ||

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Montpelier Quilt #3 by Nikolas Schiller

By sampling the previous map in this series, I was able to construct this Dodecagon Quilt Projection map. I have prepared imagery for a forth iteration, but I’m in no hurry to render it.

One interesting observation that I can extract from this series is that the imagery that is currently being used as the source material is of better quality than what is currently viewable on Google Maps and Google Earth. I’ve found the capitol dome to be a bit washed out on their imagery.

View the Google Map of Montpelier, Vermont.

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Detail of Montpelier Quilt #3 by Nikolas Schiller

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Montpelier Quilt #2
|| 1/30/2011 || 12:50 pm || + Render A Comment || ||

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Montpelier Quilt #2 by Nikolas Schiller

As the title indicates, this map is the second iteration of the series and is composed entirely of a recursively sampled portion of Montpelier Quilt. I chose to sample the area around the Vermont State Capitol building as means to highlight the most important building in the map. The result is an Octagon Quilt Projection map that features more green tones around the center of the map due to the lawn surrounding the building. To me, the central portion almost looks like a gear or sprocket.

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Detail of Montpelier Quilt #2 by Nikolas Schiller

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Montpelier Quilt
|| 1/24/2011 || 8:25 pm || + Render A Comment || ||

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Montpelier Quilt by Nikolas Schiller

About four years ago I sent a request to the State of Vermont asking for color imagery of downtown Montpelier. At that time, Vermont was one of the last states that I had not made a map of and I was eager to complete the State Capitol project. To my surprise, they sent me a DVD of the imagery around Montpelier, but sadly the DVD-Rom was a bad burn, and I was never able to extract the imagery and this map, and the entire project, was put on hold.

According to the meta-data supplied with the imagery, it appears that this aerial photography was taken by Aero-Metric, Inc. on April 24th, 2009 and released to the public in October of 2009. This means I’m over a year late in making this map!

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Detail of Montpelier Quilt by Nikolas Schiller

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Watergate Quilt
|| 10/17/2010 || 1:36 pm || + Render A Comment || ||

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Watergate Quilt by Nikolas Schiller

This map contains my first effort to recolor the murky water of the Potomac river. Since the Watergate complex is next to the Saudi Arabian Embassy, I decided to color the water the color which I attribute to the oil-rich nation: black. Water & oil don’t mix well and I don’t think I did a very good job with the colorization in this map, but to be honest, I don’t care. It was the effort that I was after in this iteration, not necessarily the aesthetics of perfection.

View the Google Map of the Watergate complex in the District of Columbia.

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Detail of Watergate Quilt by Nikolas Schiller

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Georgetown Quilt – East
|| 9/13/2010 || 8:59 pm || + Render A Comment || ||

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Georgetown Quilt - East by Nikolas Schiller

Georgetown Quilt – East / Center / West are 3 new limited edition maps that are being created for the upcoming exhibition at The Old Print Gallery. Each individual map is composed of a section of Georgetown stretching between Rock Creek Park (East) to the area around The Old Print Gallery (Center) to the Key Bridge (West). Georgetown Quilt – Center is composed of what I call an Octagon Quilt Projection map because there are 8 lines of symmetry that radiate from the center of the map. The East & West maps, which will flank the Center, were created using the Hexagon Quilt Projection, which creates 6 lines of symmetry radiating from the center.

View the Google Map of the Georgetown neighborhood of the District of Columbia.

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Detail of Georgetown Quilt - East by Nikolas Schiller

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Nikolas Schiller is a second-class American citizen living in America's last colony, Washington, DC. This blog is my on-line repository of what I have created or found on-line since May of 2004. If you have any questions or comments, please contact: