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A Digital Scrapbook for the Past, Present, and Future

blogging break
|| 5/6/2006 || 8:42 am || Comments Off on blogging break || ||

For the nearly last 5 months straight I’ve managed to have a least one map made for every day for this blog. I’ve decided to take a break for a wee bit and concentrate on a few other important tasks. I should be back to my map making activites shortly. Hold tight.

Pentagon Quilt #2
|| 4/23/2006 || 8:01 am || Comments Off on Pentagon Quilt #2 || ||

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I might made another that creates a hexagon or an octogon out of the Pentagon. I think it would look really cool :-)

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Pentagon Quilt
|| 4/22/2006 || 8:42 am || Comments Off on Pentagon Quilt || ||

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Pentagon Quilt by Nikolas Schiller

I’ve decided to venture over the Potomac River and make a few maps of the Washington, DC hinterland. Up next will be Rosslyn and the CIA building.

I don’t know why I decided to make maps of the Pentagon & CIA, but I figured why not just focus on a couple buildings? Most of my maps are comprised of specific areas instead of specific buildings, so in some respects, while they are not technically different, these two maps are a slight departure from the norm.

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Raleigh Quilt
|| 4/21/2006 || 8:35 am || Comments Off on Raleigh Quilt || ||

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Raleigh Quilt by Nikolas Schiller

So I made two Raleigh maps, but I totally screwed up on the second. Instead of intersecting two different planes, I only had one plane. I can’t believe I rendered such an incomplete map, but alas I did. I’ve opted to not post the second one because of it’s inherent error. Maybe I’ll get around to making another….but not anytime soon.

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Pittsburgh Quilt
|| 4/11/2006 || 8:36 am || Comments Off on Pittsburgh Quilt || ||

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So I made 5 different maps of Pittsburgh and when I was post-processing them I discovered that 2 of the maps were not perfect. I found that a seam was off by a few pixels and I find this to be unacceptable, so I deleted the maps. This isn’t the first time this has happened, but it’s the first time it’s happened when I was making a series.

According to the meta-data, the aerial photography was taken on April 5th, 2005, processed in May of 2005, and released in October of 2005. The source spatial resolution is .3 meters per pixel, which gives a lot of detail.

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Lincoln Nebraska Quilt #2
|| 4/4/2006 || 8:34 am || Comments Off on Lincoln Nebraska Quilt #2 || ||

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Lincoln Nebraska Quilt no. 2 by Nikolas R. Schiller

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Lincoln Nebraska Quilt
|| 4/3/2006 || 8:29 am || Comments Off on Lincoln Nebraska Quilt || ||

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Lincoln Nebraska Quilt by Nikolas Schiller

Today’s map is one of my first for the state of Nebraska.

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Harvard Quilt – NE
|| 3/2/2006 || 8:59 am || Comments Off on Harvard Quilt – NE || ||

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Harvard Quilt - NE by Nikolas Schiller

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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Harvard Quilt – NW
|| 3/1/2006 || 9:28 pm || Comments Off on Harvard Quilt – NW || ||

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Harvard Quilt - NW by Nikolas Schiller

Read my comments from the Harvard Quilt NE here.

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Atlanta Quilt #3
|| 2/24/2006 || 8:05 am || Comments Off on Atlanta Quilt #3 || ||

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Atlanta Quilt No. 3 by Nikolas Schiller

This map is the final iteration in the series. They all turned out great.

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Hello! Thanks for stopping by! My name is Nikolas Schiller. I am an American citizen currently living in New York City and working remotely to support structural change in Washington, DC.

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