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I don't know why but I love the Peirce Quincuncial projection (i.imgur.com)
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[–] 0101010001110100@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago

This is beautiful. I wanna print it out and hang it on my wall.

[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This looks so good, i love the stupid amount of distortion

[–] T_the_G@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago

Still better than Mercator;)

[–] EmergencyPotato@lemmy.one 0 points 2 years ago

I haven't seen this kind of map before. It looks awesome!

[–] UprisingVoltage@feddit.it 0 points 2 years ago

Mesmerizing

[–] tkk13909@fosstodon.org 0 points 2 years ago

@T_the_G It took me a moment to figure out how it works but yeah that's pretty cool!

[–] CanadaPlus 0 points 2 years ago

Hmm, that's neat. So you're stretching the equator of a globe to a square and then hinging it apart at the hemispheres, basically.