A line through
Mylapore.

Mylapore took four attempts. The part that stayed was the line. The part that changed was how you recognised the place.

1. A map and a line.The streets were visible. The film felt like a lesson.
2. A kolam around the dots.The pattern worked, but the place was hard to recognise.
3. A tower in 3D.It looked like a different film.
4. Let the same line draw the tower.The kolam closes at the east gate and keeps going.

A 21 × 13 grid gives the kolam 273 dots. Its walls follow OpenStreetMap streets, the temple and the tank. The line turns around those walls, so the street layout shapes the pattern.

An 1822 survey was compared with today’s map by fitting the tank’s four corners. That checks the tank alignment; it does not prove that every street is unchanged. The historic map is linked below.

The Tevaram hymn names Mayilai and Kapaleeshwarar and describes the town’s festivals. It is evidence for the earlier tradition, not a date for the tower drawn here.

The drawing uses seven tiers and nine kalasams. TamilVU’s temple inventory transcribes an inscription dating the east tower’s construction to 1900–1902. The transcription was checked; the stone was not inspected.

Mylapore mode follows the game’s 1640–2026 ride timeline. Some cards look back to earlier history, and others describe a recurring season. The card’s date or season is separate from the ride year.