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Obligatory xkcd, with on-topic alt-text: https://xkcd.com/977/ https://xkcd.com/977/ For a more distorted way to see the world, try: http://andersk.mit.edu/eul
by omoikane 3y ago
Obligatory xkcd, with on-topic alt-text: https://xkcd.com/977/ https://xkcd.com/977/
For a more distorted way to see the world, try: http://andersk.mit.edu/euler-spiral-projection/ http://andersk.mit.edu/euler-spiral-projection/
- jezzamon 3y agoIt's actually less distorted in some ways :)
- shagie 3y agoI'm fond of the Dymaxion (and either the land connected or the ocean connected forms - as applicable) because it has some neat applications showing migratory routes. My parents have a map of bird migrations and there are some birds that have migratory routes that feel "disjoint" when looking at other projections. Another example is World map of prehistoric human migrations https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_map_of_prehistoric_human_migrations.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_map_of_prehist...