I 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.
Is 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.
A 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:
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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
The Spilhaus World Ocean Map in a Square (2020) - 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 - April 2023 (2 comments)
A world map that’s all about oceans - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33816910 - Dec 2022 (1 comment)
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/756bcae18d304a1eac140f1...
https://kunimune.blog/2023/12/29/introducing-the-elastic-pro...