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cmaidaartworkblog · 1 year

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Some months ago, I created a series of maps and diagrams for @iguanodont‘s Birdbug worldbuilding project, representing the planet inhabited by their original species and its planetological data. This isn’t the first time I mapped out this planet, as I was also commissioned by Ripley back in 2020 back when I didn’t have nearly as much experience and knowledge as I do now. Two years later, I’ve been commissioned once again to revisit this world and its peculiarities.

This first map (in Equirectangular projection and poles-centered perspective) depicts the elevation for this planet, with a color gradient applied to the data.

Here is the same elevation data, presented without the color gradient.

This time, the elevation is presented with bodies of liquid water included, such as rivers, oceans, and lakes.

and in this one, the water is isolated from the other data, against a white background

Next, there are the surface temperatures that occur on this planet, the key to which is shown above. The four maps below show the seasonal temperatures for land and sea, in order of Northern Spring Equinox, Northern Summer Solstice, Northern Autumn Equinox, and Northern Winter Solstice.

Correlating closely to the above data is the snow and ice cover, which is fairly extensive on this planet owing to its high obliquity and distance from its star. Land ice only occurs where the snow falls and is compacted year-round, but snow and sea ice can be much more seasonal.

Seasonal precipitation levels were another important phase of this project, and the below diagram shows those levels for a given latitude (y-axis) on a given date (x-axis), with a key attached.

My reference for creating the above graphic is the figure below, which comes from a 2019 paper by A.H. Lobo and S. Bordoni titled “Atmospheric Dynamics of High Obliquity Planets”, and shows Earth’s precipitation levels compared to those of a planet with an 85° obliquity.

The following maps can now be better understood in light of these diagrams and keys.

-Northern Spring Equinox

-Northern Summer Solstice

-Northern Autumn Equinox

-Northern Winter Solstice

I was also tasked with mapping out the extent and density of this planet’s vegetation (or at least its alien equivalent), and from this you can see how wildly it varies by season, with very few year-round holdings. Precipitation is a major factor in where it is possible for plants to flourish, but snow cover and the extreme temperature swings limit it too. Near either pole, for example, within the space of a year temperatures soar far above Earth’s upper limits and also plummet below freezing; if either extreme were to be the annual norm for a region, some plants might adapt to those conditions, but because of the wild fluctuation any adaptations to one extreme would leave plants especially vulnerable to the other. These regions, then, remain barren regardless of rainfall or brief windows of mild temperatures, while areas with less wide temperature ranges allow for at least brief periods of flourishing.

Determining the surface temperatures for this planet required a lot of background work. The first piece of the puzzle for this was knowing the number of daily hours of sunlight for a given latitude and date, which is exemplified first in this diagram for Earth:

and then for the Birdbug planet, below. Since this planet rotates on an axis of 60 degrees, there are many more latitudes within range of either pole that experience periods of sunlight and darkness lasting longer than a day. The higher the latitude, the longer this period lasts, with the poles themselves experiencing either condition for half a year at a time.

Another important factor is the height to which the sun is seen to rise (more scientifically, the angle at which the sun’s light hits parts of the planet’s surface), seen here first for Earth and then for the Birdbug planet. In these diagrams, white represents the sun reaching the zenith of the sky (meeting the surface at a 90° angle), and black represents the sun failing to appear above the horizon (meeting at an angle of 0° or below), while shades of green and purple stand in for angles between those extremes. For Earth and the Birdbug planet alike, the sun reaches the zenith within the bounds of either planet’s Tropic circles of latitude, and fails to rise at all only within the Polar circles of latitude; the difference in obliquity means that the Birdbug planet’s key circles of latitude are flipped compared to Earth’s.

The duration of sunlight and the angle at which that sunlight is reaches the planet’s surface determine a planet’s Insolation, that is, the amount of solar energy it receives. The first image below is a preexisting diagram of Earth’s Insolation, where it is measured in watts per square meter. The next two images are my own attempts at replicating this data for Earth, and then for the Birdbug planet.

As seen in the diagrams above, Insolation on the Birdbug planet differs from Earth not only in its latitudinal distribution, but also in its sheer intensity at the higher latitudes. Compared to Earth there are twice as many latitudes for which the sun is shining longer than one rotational period, and many of those latitudes see the sun shine at a direct or nearly direct angle, whereas the Polar circles of latitude on Earth see the sun shine much more obliquely. Below, we can see the data that all the above figures were instrumental in finding: that is, surface temperatures. The first image is a preexisting figure that measures Earth’s mean surface temperatures by date and latitude, and below that is my attempt at replicating the data by my own process.

This is done not by just copying the seasonal Insolation data, but by also factoring in the yearly average for each latitude.

Above, we see the temperatures of the land by date and latitude, and below, we see the temperatures at the surface of the sea, which lag behind the land temperatures and remain comparatively mild.

Lastly, here’s an image I created to combine the snow and ice cover as well as the vegetation extent and density, as of the Northern Spring Equinox. This, along with the elevation map also seen here, is what I uploaded to maptoglobe.com in order to produce the screenshot at the top of this post.

These maps and figures (except for the preexisting ones) were all created in Photopea. Higher resolution versions of many of these images can be seen in my dedicated Reddit posts, linked below: reddit post one, reddit post two

2022

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lionfloss · 1 year

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by Marina Malikova

#nature #snow #ice #waterfall #plitvice lakes #trees #photography #water #landscape #blue #icy #icy blue #winter #snow covered #white #nature photography #aesthetic #curators on tumblr #1k

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rise-my-angel · 1 month

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I think its funny that technically Jon has "the blood of Old Valyria" in him as well. But if you told him that as if it meant something, you know Jon would dismiss it entierly as unimportant, and that he does not give a single shit about it. Being Valyrian is so integral to someone like Danaerys or really any mainstream Targaryeans identity.

Then you have Jon Snow whose just like "I have things to do, I don't care" literally anytime something tries to convince Jon hes special. He's the opposite of everything Valyrians stand for and it would be so funny if hes the only one with Targaryean blood to survive, so that the last living relic of the ancient Valyrian Freehold is stuck inside the most grouchy, anti prophecy Northerner known to man.

#game of thrones #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #jon snow #anti targaryen #anti targ restoration #anti targ stans #anti daenerys targaryen #those last 2 are just to cover my butt idk what targ/dany stans consider slander these days im just trying to be funny here

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resfebernights · 5 months

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Winter Overtakes / The snow consumes the forest

#wanderlust #tree #ice #snow #tree in snow #snow covered tree #snow covered #cold #white #grey #black #black white #ice covered #frozen #storm

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kicreate · 11 months

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Wow, we get 4 tracks that are exclusive on 2 Editions of Midnights "The Til Dawn Edition" & "The Late Night Edition". Here are the 4 fanmade song covers. Hope you like it :)

Fanmade Covers: @kicreate

Also for "Hits Different" and "Snow On The Beach" I updated covers :)

#taylor swift #taylornation #fanmade #fanmade cover #cover design #midnights #the till dawn edition #the late night edition #hits different #karma #karma remix #you're losing me #snow on the beach #lana del rey #ice spice

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downfalldestiny · 5 months

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Beautiful frosty day ❄️ !.

#magic destinations #magical world #magic moments #downfalldestiny #downfall #life #Frost #Snow #Trees #White cover #River #Sun #Ice

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smashpages · 7 months

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This is Dave Dorman's variant cover for Usagi Yojimbo: Ice and Snow #1 (Dark Horse, September 2023)

#dave dorman #usagi yojimbo #comics #variant covers #comic covers #dark horse comics #usagi yojimbo: ice and snow

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evax3 · 10 months

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JON SNOW x DAENERYS TARGARYEN | THE VOW – REMIX | CHAPTER 4/8

Something Infinite

Jon swallows everything he wants to say to her. He suppresses any desire to touch her, staring at her big eyes and her full lips longingly, but without acting like he wishes to do. She sees it. She always catches his gaze but she says nothing about it, so he says nothing as well.

READ THE FULL CHAPTER HERE

#because I really wanted to create a book cover for this #and i love her outfit in this chapter #jonerys #jon snow #daenerys targaryen #jon x dany #game of thrones #a song of ice and fire #jonerys fanart #jonerys fanfic #jonerys au #summer romance #book covers #artists on tumblr

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voided-selfships · 6 months

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Not our fault everyone decided to pick our date-night to be busy

[TAGLIST/CREDIT]

au by @mushtoons !

@comfycozycirrus @ghost--girlfriend @wanderers-wife @fireborns @lovebandit42069

#the one time they didnt check in and came back to a snow covered living room /silly #bastard.png #one day ill focus on the future || 💙#where everybody knows your name || 💙#will happen. happening happened. || 🔵#self ship #self ships #self ship art #self shipping #self ship community #adventure time #adventure time oc #ice king #simon petrikov

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soranatus · 9 months

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Usagi Yojimbo: Ice and Snow (2023) #2 Variant Cover by Ethan Young

#Usagi Yojimbo: Ice and Snow #miyamoto usagi #usagi yojimbo #Jei #variant cover #Ethan Young #Dark Horse #Dark Horse Comics

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buildoblivionthenwewilltalk · 10 months

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so i’ve been drawing today 😅

#oh dear god they’re making memes with their own art take cover #I’ve been busy lol #Jon snow #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #got #game of thrones #kit harrington #book Jon #show Jon #Valyrian scrolls #canonjonsnow #minsart

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lionfloss · 1 year

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by Anatolych

#nature #photography #plants #trees #landscape #forest #woods #frost #snow #ice #white #green #snow covered #nature photography #misty #foggy

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ibrithir-was-here · 10 months

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I’m back with another vintage style cover redesign! This time for the wonderful book “Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow” a retelling of East of the Sun, West of the Moon by the very talented Jessica Day George. A lot of her younger aimed books have lovely illustrated covers but the more YA ones all have cover model ones and I thought they deserved an illustrated one as well (may do her Princess Trilogy next we’ll see)

Anyway here’s the cover done in a more market paperback style (hence why our heroine is waaay more glam then she actually is in the book xD) as I wanted to practice a more lineless feel.

With a logo-less, none faded version as well

(Click for better quality)

#my art #jessica day George #book covers #fantasy books #fairytales #fairy tale retelling #east of the sun west of the moon #beauty and the beast #beauty and the beast retelling #it’s adjacent anyway #Sun and moon ice and snow #book cover design #cover design #cover redesign #bloomsbury

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resfebernights · 5 months

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