Katastroika and welcome to vector the Crimea
Describes the events date back to 2005
From time immemorial, my grandmother was a map of the Crimea 60s, which looks like a work of art. Do the artist really tried the map contains hundreds of small details, and literally every inch of her saturated with the spirit of those bygone times. Popeye Gases 51, Volga, victory, Lazy Intourist, screw Aeroflot, women of the sea in a bathing cap, all this is now in curiosity, although I'm still a little managed to live in that world.
In 2002 I got my first after "Search" in the 90s personal computer with an Athlon 1GHz. After a little time, I fuck around in photoshop, and in 2004 I had the program — a miracle of human thought — Macromedia Flash MX. In the same year I learned the mystery of hypertext markup (HTML) and started making their own websites. Since Flash is my favorite program, I do a lot: the design elements for your sites or the sites themselves, the layouts for printing, videos, various designers and, of course, animated banners.
And at one point, I wanted to breathe new, modern life and the very map is a masterpiece. This had everything you need: a scanner, many detailed maps of the Crimea, various tour books describing the sights, well, actually Internet. The map, by the way was very time-worn and apparently of its own barbarism. It was nacertanije child scribble with a ballpoint pen and in some places the breaks in the places of bending. Without any problems the card has been scanned at a resolution of 300dpi and turned thus into a digital piece made of six parts. Then all the pieces were just reduced and loaded into flash, where they were converted into a vector with enough rough options to make smaller "zones". Then began the routine work, reducing the existing number of polygons by pouring one color of nearby pieces of similar color. Had to handle tens of thousands of pieces. It took a lot of time, because the eyes are quite tired. Each of the remaining polygons, which were thousands, were manually optimized to make it look not hard and crooked and there was a polygon of straight lines. So you have processed all 6 parts of the map, and it turned out that somehow one piece is very different in colour from the rest. Overlooked when scanning, but was already done a lot of work to redo and there was no point. Fortunately the program allows you to solve the problem is quite simple — convert the entire piece into a character and tweak its color range RGB sliders.
So, the most difficult and tedious behind, before the eyes of the beautiful Crimean landscape in all its beauty. Then have more interesting challenges — filling the card content. The first thing I took most at the moment missing and logically the lower layer with the Black sea. And this is needed enough proper contours of the coastline of the Peninsula. Here comes to the aid of Google Earth. Complex areas of cities were openscreen and according to the obtained images were drawn clear boundaries, after which they were combined with a map by distortion and transformation. Then the theme of water continued, and the landscape appeared lakes and rivers. With rivers it was easier, but many small lakes, which were absent in the old map, were derived from the Atlas and placed on their estimated relative locations of roads and human settlements.
Then have all used detailed Atlas of the Crimea. Were drawn the roads up to more or less knurled forest ruts. All the railroad tracks with all the stations and platforms. Most important of all settlements, with them once it was decided to do two switching options: with all the villages or only with large. Each village passed through my hands, put a circle and a caption for it. In some places such a density of settlements, their titles miraculously fit without overlap on each other. If you knew how many Aleksandrovac, if only in the Crimea with different variations there are about 10, presumably in Ukraine alone, over a hundred. The latter were the layers with the names of mountains, passes, capes and bays, and with the designation of Crimean attractions are in the Peninsula of abundance. About every interesting place was found the description, mostly in small booklets, which mom bought.
Well, left it all to fill the functionality and business with the end. Added control card (it was taken from some German flash cards small town), a table of distances, and print. When I saw the final size of the finished SWF file, it is hard to believe that this is possible. Optimizing each piece of the landscape have benefited and, in the end, a rather large number of graphic and text information fits in less than 600 kilobytes!
upd. I apologize that did not specify in the article on the absence in the finished product of all these small graphical elements in the form of boats, cars and other things. But you must understand that it is a very complex and painstaking work, and it should look like in our day, without locomotives. The task was to make as a minimum by weight of the file, but that there was a lot of information and it all looked wrong as all the usual atlases.
View and download here http://crimeamap.pdatelie.net
Card scan 300 dpi
Map
Cover
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