Jaquaying the Dungeon - Addendum: How to Use a Melan Diagram
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Comments
I'd seen the bit about separating the diagrams but somehow hadn't put it together that it was to avoid the extra intersections. Lines will still have to cross, as is an inevitability when putting a certain number of connections onto a 2d plane, but I suppose because they're dotted lines that don't represent a real path it's a lot easier to understand.
2021-01-14 10:30:09 +0000 UTCI mention this briefly in the article, I think: Melan would arbitrarily split his diagrams to conserve space / make them fit, connecting the dismembered bits with dashed lines. It's important to remember that the diagrams have no actual relationship to physical space. They're like subway maps, where spatial relations and distance are not so much distorted as discarded.
Justin Alexander
2021-01-08 05:22:34 +0000 UTC
