A whole metro network printed on warm paper lying on a dark table, filmed by a real perspective camera: coloured lines held to eight directions are drawn on by glowing pen tips, stops pop as the tip passes, interchanges fall onto the paper with shock rings, a line turns into a dashed tunnel under a river or bay while the camera drops low with shallow focus, and little white trains run on finished track. The camera rides a tip, pulls back to the whole network or sweeps low across the centre, while a mechanical counter in the corner rolls to a year or a total. Made for how a city, a network or a route grew.
Use this styleTell us the network to draw and what each section covers: for a real network, its lines, station names, line colours and the years, lengths or ridership to show, with sources; or a fictional city, or something drawn as a network (a product roadmap, a career), which the map will label as fiction. You may pick the story's accent colour and what the counter counts. Everything is drawn in code, so no images are needed.
In the fictional harbour city of Port Alder, a green pen tip draws Line 3's extension: the camera rides it through North Cross and Central, interchanges drop onto the paper, it dives into a tunnel under Alder Bay, lands at South Shore, and the camera rises over the whole network as trains start to run and a printed callout appears.
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