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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 7d 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 7d agoVery nice!
- morepork 7d 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 7d 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 7d agoI stopped reading at "vibe-coded".
- imp0cat 7d 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 7d agoVery cool, Its interesting to see what happens to Antarctica.