> Hi(gh)!
>
> On 16.05.2013 09:27, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>
>> I can readily appreciate the similarities in purpose, although no brain
>> damage in my case - as far as I know ;-) but the compulsion to create
>> one's own world is there and I have felt it strongly my whole life.
>
> Same with me... it started quite early in my childhood days - anybody

> saw him drawing colorful topographic maps of imaginary places... back

> world populated by immortal, hyper-intelligent children but also at
> constant war with a Darth Vader-like oppressor...

Yes, I can imagine that. I was less map-oriented though ;-)

>
> Unfortunately, none of these countless maps (there were physical as well
> as thematic maps, also city maps) survived until today, as my parents
> back then were quite uneasy about my vivid imagination, so they threw
> away all those maps I had drawn between 1977 and 1983.

Oh, that's sad indeed.

>
> At 21, a fellow student who studied linguistics and started a
> collaborative Tolkien-ish fantasy project, inspired me to re-create M
> 720 (now to be called "Ilthanalg" - "planet of the Sacred Number") and
> even to develop an own language for its people; so I drew several global
> maps (physical, political, temperatures, precipitation and vegetation.
>
> I scanned those maps when my computer equipment became sophisticated
> enough during the 1990s... but then lost them all to a catastrophic
> Windows crash. But nevertheless, I think I'm still able to re-draw them
> from memory... and I also have written a lengthy introduction to
> Ilthanalg, currently only in German, but I hope to get it translated in
> the not-too-distant future.

Nothing like memory and imagination. Although with POV-Ray I really 
approximate what I see in my mind, still the mind vistas are grander. 
Smells, noises, variations of shades, throngs of people...

Thomas

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