Braudel's The Mediterranean was made over twenty years, and Braudel's excess is statistical, but he also innovates narratives, his maps are loaded with motion data, sometimes forcing the audience to shift orientation to realize scope and origin. Below, the reader rotates to see.


Upon meeting his prime visualizer in 1974, Ralph McQuarrie, George Lucas sketched out three of his known quantities, showcasing that design and writing for his upcoming saga was simultaneous. Knowing these forms' shaping was elemental in describing their conflict in written form.


Bioshock's Rapture locale, soon Columbia.
Local model of the area vaporized in first atomic blast. Only surviving building is green roofed structure upper right. Model is hyper-real (the water seems tropical, buildings lack aging) to offer dramatic contrast to the black-and-white images of the blasted remains.

Notice orientations and where one views directions from. We are looking 'up,' notice the stars. Notice the fire's line imitates but does not fully embody lightning, it flows from the coyote's act of stealing to the human realm through the sun at center.

2000 pages later..."The exact circumstances of the origin of The Urantia Book are unknown. The book and its publishers do not name a human author, instead it is written as if directly presented by numerous celestial beings appointed to the task of providing an "epochal" spiritual revelation to humankind. For each paper, either a name, or an order of celestial being, or a group of beings is credited as its author."
