alt Hacker NewsI 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
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mlaretallack • today at 4:46 AM
Very cool, Its interesting to see what happens to Antarctica.
gumby • yesterday at 6:23 PM
Very nice!
People 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.