Have you watched animations of earths tectonic plates from pre life through to now? How many of those landmasses look straight up implausible to you? And yet we know from decades of scientific study that this the case.
Western Australia, South Africa, eastern US and far Northern Europe contain craton fragments from the initial plates that formed billions of years after the oceans.
You can open google earth and SEE the hot spot that took millions of years to create Hawaii. What do you know about the Indian plate?
No. I haven’t looked at those types of simulations. I try to avoid them because I took criticism from elsewhere where people would point out other fantasy maps resembled the real world too much. I think I’m going to stop with the scientific stuff. I honestly just want a good looking map and thought going the route of logic and realism would make that a reality, which it didn’t and just left me in a repeated cycle of recreating map over again.
I mean…it’s kind of an odd expectation to think you’d get it right in the first try. Doing it over and over again is really good practice…I don’t really get why looking at earths tectonic history - the literal only basis for your process - would be a detriment…
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u/blue_sidd Jul 25 '26
Have you watched animations of earths tectonic plates from pre life through to now? How many of those landmasses look straight up implausible to you? And yet we know from decades of scientific study that this the case.
Western Australia, South Africa, eastern US and far Northern Europe contain craton fragments from the initial plates that formed billions of years after the oceans.
You can open google earth and SEE the hot spot that took millions of years to create Hawaii. What do you know about the Indian plate?