About the Program

Cartography Shop started as a tool for my own purposes. I needed an editor that was powerful, with a simple, efficient interface. The philosophy behind this program holds that ease-of-use and power are not antagonistic features. User-friendliness has become an often overlooked aspect of modeling programs. This is unfortunate, because not only does an intuitive interface lend to gentler learning curves, but it greatly increases an expert user's efficiency. Anyone who is at all familiar with 3D computer graphics ought to be able to sit down with this program, and be able to produce a reasonably good model within half an hour - without touching a manual. An expert user will be able to produce large volumes of geometry in a much shorter time than it would take them with another modeling package. Greater efficiency means a shorter development time, which means more effort can be put into creative experimentation.

I'm very happy with the way this program turned out, and was pleasantly surprised when so many people told me they needed something like this.