> always the case Try it. In my initial experiments as a cartographer, as is normal for learners I did "fix it", and tried "boreal morning or afternoon real li

> always the case Try it. In my initial experiments as a cartographer, as is normal for learners I did "fix it", and tried "boreal morning or afternoon real light directions": the effect will be wrong, in an actual map. ...Learners "make it the right way" and learn that the """right""" way is wrong. > more readily Sure consolidated UIs will contribute in the spiral of circular consolidation of natural ("brain") patterns and conventions, but the "light from top-left" use predates UIs by very many centuries: when we read a document it is more typical to have it lit, not darkened by one's own shadow from a body interposed between sun and document; when we gather around a fire we face it.