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I vibe-coded up an animated transition between Mercator and Equal Earth (using D3) the other day, if anyone's interested in that comparison: https://tools.simon
by simonw 29d ago
I vibe-coded up an animated transition between Mercator and Equal Earth (using D3) the other day, if anyone's interested in that comparison: https://tools.simonwillison.net/equal-earth https://tools.simonwillison.net/equal-earth
- gumby 29d agoVery nice!
- morepork 28d agoPeople say Russia, Canada and Greenland look big in the Mercator projection, but what they miss is it makes Antarctica enormous, your app shows it nicely. So much so that many maps just cut off the bottom otherwise it looks a bit silly, but then the equator isn't in the middle.
- bmandale 28d agoThe mercator projection has neither a top nor a bottom, it extends infinitely upwards and downwards. Hence all visualizations of it cut it off at some arbitrary point. Making antarctica humorously large does nothing besides make a point.
- MichaelRo 28d agoI stopped reading at "vibe-coded".
- imp0cat 28d agoIt's kinda obvious when you see the username, isn't it? But still, it's not a red flag in this particular example.
- mlaretallack 28d agoVery cool, Its interesting to see what happens to Antarctica.