#map room

[thelaststarbunny]

I ❤️ the Map Room Pussy

[huariqueje]

Map room in the Albertina   -   Alois Hanisch , 1916.

Austrian, 1866-1937

oil on canvas , 62.5 x 52 cm.    24.6 x 20.5 in.

[renegadehoist]

Quick one this morning - I’ve felt for a while the map room (Image #2) was wasting a lot of space, so I have decided to dig out a shallow room behind the bookcases (Image #1) and make it a floor map instead! The map is now one column wider of the left (Images 7 & 8) so you can now see all of the bridge of the back of my castle - Mount DOOOooom, and part of the multiplayer shrine island. Accompanied on the wall behind by alpha images of the front of my home-in-a-mountain and my main living area

From my 9 year+ Java single player survival world.

[itsacon10]

Me: Favorite Indiana Jones scene? Wife: They're digging in the wrong spot? Or at the college but not with the students there? Me: That I can draw? Wife: Not that one (Indiana Jones about to snatch the golden idol). That's been been to death.  What about him with the Staff of Ra? Me:  I guess I can draw that.  Or Marion. Wife:  That one.  It has all of that architectural stuff you love to draw. And you don’t have to do a close up of Indy.

[threadatl]

The Map Room at Georgia Tech has a lot of promise for engagement in Atlanta

Thanks much to Yanni Loukissas for giving us a nice tour of his Map Room project at Georgia Tech today.

This has the potential to be a great compliment to engagement efforts, citywide. People can sit around the projected map of Atlanta properties and trace things on paper, taking notes from the different data (maps can show property value increase and decrease, demographic changes, and more) and talking about what they see.

The great value of the device is all about what happens in the room with a group of people. The images that come from the process have limited worth after the fact -- Yanni was adamant about that. It's specifically a vehicle for conversation and discovery regarding neighborhoods, for people who are gathered together at the same time.

The data comes alive in an inclusive, easy-to-follow way with this kind of display, which could help average Atlantans benefit from data science without necessarily needing to be experts. The possibilities for improved engagement with city issues are big.

We're eager to see how this gets used to help promote, as Yanni says, a "more equitable and just Atlanta."

Read more about the Map Room here:

http://loukissas.lmc.gatech.edu/uncategorized/atlanta-map-room/

[official-ilvermorny]

Thunderbird Common Room

The Thunderbird common room, like the others, is split into three floors, plus the cellar and attic. The three main floors have doors to the dorm towers, but the cellar and attic do not. Because of the nature of Thunderbird students, they tend to spend the least amount of time in their common room, so it is the simplest and least lavish of the common rooms, though it clearly tells of the adventurousness of the students.

The ground floor is split up into four main rooms: the entry area, a sitting room, the mud room, and the kitchen. The entry area is simple and open, and has the stairs to the second floor. Its wooden floors have a golden compass symbol burned into it. The sitting room, as you might expect, has chairs, sofas, tables, and a couple of desks and bookshelves, and a fireplace. It is where the students like to relax and chat together. The kitchen is not large by any means, and is completely auxillary to the school kitchens made for feasts. It is provided because students often need a midnight snack. The mud room has a host of adventuring materials in the cupboards, such as hiking boots, ropes, and extra cloaks.

The second floor houses the Map Room, the library, as well as a commons area. The Map Room, as implied by the name, is full of maps. Most of them are student-made maps of their homes, the castle, grounds, or specific places they like to go to in any. There are old globes as well, but the most interesting of the maps is the large map of the world taking up an entire wall. There are multi-colored pins stuck in every single place imaginable, and if you ask the map, it will tell you who inserted that pin and any other information they chose to include about whether they visited it or wish to some day. The library is not by any means the most complex library and couldn’t hold a candle to the Horned Serpent library, let alone the school’s. However, it is useful for all those who find that their type of adventure is through books. It is the largest fiction collection in the school.

The third floor is a mismatch of much smaller rooms that serve very specific purposes. There is a darkroom for developing pictures, an art room, a small study hall filled with only desks, and many other areas created for specific purposes.

The cellar, accessed through the kitchen, is a tiny game room. There are pool, ping-pong, foosball, and card tables, and there’s an area meant specifically for dancing. It most often goes unused during school days, but Thunderbirds will occasionally host all-House parties down there, and will let others.

The attic, on the other hand, is perhaps the most mysterious of all. Many intriguing things are found there, and almost none of them are what you expect. The attic is the only place in the common room where only fellow Thunderbirds are allowed. It is tradition for graduates to leave behind one thing in the attic for future Thunderbirds to discover.

Special thanks to Thunderbird Headcanons for posting the headcanon about the map room.

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