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The Spilhaus Projection: A world map according to fish
- worik 1y agoThat is an awesome map
- ggerules 1y agoAccording to saltwater fish... What about all of the freshwater fish? Cool map though!
- normie3000 1y agoFreshwater fish have multiple, much smaller maps which have no connection to each other.
- Gravityloss 1y agoIt is one of the most mind boggling thing to me how many animal species can survive with such convoluted life cycles. Fish do find their way into weird places. I've heard that fish egg stick to waterfowl feet.
- dvh 1y agoAre rivers 2d or 1d?
- edoceo 1y ago3d
- stronglikedan 1y ago4d when they flow
- hopelite 1y agoNot to mention that no fish would have any insight into at least whatever is within visible distance from the shore surface. An accurate version of such a map would highlight an interesting perspective of how humans also lack the ability to perceive, comprehend, or even accept things they either physically or psychologically cannot perceive or do not wish to perceive and accept it.
- fph 1y agoMore importantly, I imagine a 2D map would not be useful for fish: there is much more space to represent when you can also swim up and down.
- croisillon 1y agothe fish need more data: - depths https://www.horizont.net/news/media/8/Die-Schaup-des-jeweil-Heft-sind-auf-eine-besond-We-79294-detailp.jpeg https://www.horizont.net/news/media/8/Die-Schaup-des-jeweil-... - and temperature https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/SpilhausCurrents.jpg https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/...
- cratermoon 1y agoand salinity
- lotfi-mahiddine 1y ago[flagged]
- srean 1y agoI may be very easy to amuse but but Spilhaus projection for compact Hausdorff space (the surface of the Earth) tickled my drying bones. Seems the landmasses are indeed housing off all that spilled water. Humor aside, the first thing it reminded me of is the Quincunx projection. There all the landmass is at the centre and is housed off by the oceans. And you can tile Euclidean space with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce_quincuncial_projection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce_quincuncial_projection
- dang 1y ago(Very) little bits of past discussion. Others? The Spilhaus World Ocean Map in a Square (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36498614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36498614 - June 2023 (2 comments) A far-sighted Minnesota scientist pointed America toward the future - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35756976 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35756976 - April 2023 (2 comments) A world map that’s all about oceans - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33816910 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33816910 - Dec 2022 (1 comment)
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- cratermoon 1y agoIs there or could there be an equivalent centered on the north geographic pole? I'm aware of Polar Stereographic Projections and similar but they don't unify the oceans the way the Spilhaus does.
- mmooss 1y agoThis article has a well-researched history and many versions of the map: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/756bcae18d304a1eac140f19f4d5cb3d https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/756bcae18d304a1eac140f1...
- throw93747499 1y ago[flagged]
- HALtheWise 1y agoA friend of mine created something similar using a numerical optimization based approach to minimize distortion. He also made the artistic choice to split the water between Australia and Asia to get even lower distortion. See Elastic II here: https://kunimune.blog/2023/12/29/introducing-the-elastic-projections/ https://kunimune.blog/2023/12/29/introducing-the-elastic-pro...
- zokier 1y agoElastic II is very neat by preserving drainage basins. But Antarctica looks really distorted, in a way that doesn't seem necessary? Could that be fixed somehow?
- yohbho 1y agoNice reminder, that every eel in austria came from the caribic by looking at a path in this map.