Tower is making the world

Tower

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Generated live from the world's features, in your browser. On the exterior it is wrapped onto the hull — an x-ray of the inner surface, not what Tower looks like from outside.

Click a place to select it. Shift-click two points to measure a sightline between them; Esc clears it. F fits the map, and L shows or hides the labels in any view.

True shows the outer skin: bare hull, and a window at each cap — look in through either and the land is really there, hazed as it is from inside, 540 km deep. X-ray wraps the terrain onto the outside instead, which is a diagram of what is inside rather than a view of it.

Tower turns once every 7 min 29 s. Drag to orbit, scroll to zoom, click the hull to drop a point.

A new sight every thirty seconds — flying down a river, circling a waterfall or a summit, following a ship through weather. N skips ahead; Esc, a drag or a flight key stops it where it is.

One finger looks. Two fingers move — drag with two and the ground follows them, pinch to zoom in like a pair of binoculars. With a mouse: drag to look, shift-drag to move, scroll to zoom. Fly with the keyboard: W A S D or the arrows to move, E to climb, Q to descend, shift to go five times faster. Speed follows your height, so the ground passes at the same apparent pace from a metre up or ten kilometres. Selecting a place walks you there. Nothing inside here rotates: you, the ground and the air all turn together. The far cap is a window, so at night the sky through it wheels once every 7 min 29 s about a single motionless star — the only place the spin is obvious.

Time

Weather

Tower publishes its weather plans so people can plan around them, and changes them when it sees fit. Times are world time, counted from day 0; run the clock under Time to move through them.

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      About

      Tower is the setting of a novel. This map is its companion piece.

      Source on GitLab