1. I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6. - Steven Wright
The story...describes an empire where cartography becomes so exact that only a map on the same scale as the empire itself will suffice. Later generations come to disregard the map, however, and as it decays, so does the land and society beneath it. [Wikipedia]
kalterdev|1 month ago
RunningDroid|1 month ago
They don't have a relevant item in the FAQ but it sounds like they place each block manually directed by a schematic overlay
telesilla|1 month ago
2. On Exactitude of Science - Borges.
https://kwarc.info/teaching/TDM/Borges.pdf
The story...describes an empire where cartography becomes so exact that only a map on the same scale as the empire itself will suffice. Later generations come to disregard the map, however, and as it decays, so does the land and society beneath it. [Wikipedia]
iggldiggl|1 month ago
And based on that in turn, Umberto Eco's "On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1": https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/881694/cb6119367b...
lioeters|1 month ago
php-3|1 month ago