Gigantica -- A Study in Maximum Habitable Planet Size

[Peter Toth]

Thank you worldbuilding pasta, for the advice regarding reprojection. From now on, I'll opt for the Polar Coordinates filter instead of the sphere, and I'll definitely make sure to minimize the steps involved.

I've been working hard on the next continent, whose original dimensions are over 5,000 x 10,000 pixels and wouldn't fit here. Thus, I've resampled the image and included some close up shots below.









Hope you all enjoy this as much as I've enjoyed rendering it.

Peter

[Peter Toth]

Hello Guild,

Here's some more recent progress on my conworld of Grandissimo, using a brand-new process that has evolved over the course of this project. Unlike before, I think I finally like this continent shape and thus I'm posting it as a finished map. By the way, Szaraz means "dry" in Hungarian.



Please let me know what you think.

Peter

[Impractical Cartographer]

Very nice hypsometry.
I have a few comments:



1. The land cut off by the frame looks messy. You could give a small bulge outside the frame there, yes here:


2. I'm not sure if the linear scale is appropriate here. The map covers the area from the equator to 45 degrees north latitude.
You used the equirectangular projection. It does not seem the best for this area.

Assuming that Gigantica has a radius of 7359 km, then:

• 5 degrees of length at the equator = 642 km
• 5 degrees of length at 45°N = 454 km

So between the north and the south of the map you have a difference of about 190 kilometers

If you would like to keep the linear scale, it is definitely worth changing the projection to conic.
Here you have a similar area: India and Indochina. Pergamon World Atlas.

And besides, I really like what you are doing