Continental Masking
Added 2016-01-18 19:08:24 +0000 UTCI am largely happy with the arrangements of land masses, and added a little more southern Kiln, taking into account suggestions made here and on DA.
I have been mapping it onto a sphere within 3D software, which is giving me a good idea of how it will look even with polar distortion. When I add the textures next, I will have to make sure to stretch them accordingly!
My basic layout of the tectonic plates is here; I will add direction and speed next to make sure it all lines up.
The idea behind some of the long thin landmasses is that chriirah is very old, and many of the ancient continental cores have been squished and crushed by other plates until some are little more than long thin remnants of what they once were.
The planet has been so warm for so long, that I have no added signs of past glaciation in the polar regions; there simply hasnt been ice for hundreds of millions of years!
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Another option! Thought I am not sure if conditions on a much younger world would be hospitable.
Alex
2016-01-19 19:34:48 +0000 UTCCould it just work the other way- that these are young continents, and the Birrin appeared earlier in the history of life on their planet than we did on ours?
KM
2016-01-19 05:12:51 +0000 UTCYou could well be right! I will do some research and come up with a more plausible explanation.
Alex
2016-01-19 04:44:24 +0000 UTCIt's my understanding that it actually works the other way- that continental crust tends to accumulate over the billions of years, because it is, sort of definitionally, the less dense rock that 'floats' and isn't consumed by, and emerges from, seafloor subduction zones.
KM
2016-01-19 03:23:33 +0000 UTCActually I kept them far enough away from the poles that when I mapped them onto a sphere, there was relatively little distortion. I will put up some renders tomorrow to give a clearer view
Alex
2016-01-18 20:16:33 +0000 UTCSo, the northern and southern regions that look thin now, will be even thinner in the polar distortion. Have you thought about stretching them to take that into account?
John
2016-01-18 20:11:35 +0000 UTC
