This truly beautiful, large scale map was created by Scott while hand surveying Discovery Park with a plane table and pacing. He describes some of his process: “I walked as steady a bearing as possible across the park until I hit the shore of Puget Sound. The park is partially an old army fort with […]
Scott, a mechanical engineer turned artist drew this detailed map using a homemade alidade and plane table (a set of 19th-century surveying tools used to sight and draw the angle of distant objects). The sketch reveals Scott’s process, recording its own construction. From a series of eight stations (A-H) pencil lines fan outward, one for […]