3d Tube Map: ELL Addition

Time for an overhaul perhaps?

It's probably a good couple of years since I did anything with the whole 3d tube map thing and when I 'finished' it, there was always the huge glaring omission of the east london line...mostly because when I lived in Rugby I never used it whenever I visited London and knew nothing about it. Lazy? Pretty much...but then again it was only ever something I did while I was bored and unemployed.

So here's a quick-ish mock up of the map that came from a revised lower res version I made to use as part of an interactive flash model. That didn't quite work out because 1) I didn't/don't have any flash skills and 2) The models got horribly corrupted whenever I tried to import them into another program to make anything.

In a funny way I actually like this version more than the original one that used cylindrical tube lines. I think it looks cleaner with the flat edges and lack of glossy reflections that you get with rounded objects. I could either keep it like this or play around with the object properties on the rounded version to reflect less light. Additionally I'm not so sure about the jaggedness of the east london line. In reality it doesn't descend very far underground and it's more like a gradual descent which is harder to represent with only 45 degree angles; a series of steps represents it more 'accurately' but one big dip is more aesthetically pleasing. Decisions, decisions eh?