9 hours ago
(Very) little bits of past discussion. Others?
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)
an hour ago
This article has a well-researched history and many versions of the map:
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/756bcae18d304a1eac140f1...
9 hours ago
According to saltwater fish... What about all of the freshwater fish?
Cool map though!
9 hours ago
Freshwater fish have multiple, much smaller maps which have no connection to each other.
8 hours ago
Are rivers 2d or 1d?
8 hours ago
3d
2 hours ago
4d when they flow
8 hours ago
Not to mention that no fish would have any insight into at least whatever is within visible distance from the shore surface. An accurate version of such a map would highlight an interesting perspective of how humans also lack the ability to perceive, comprehend, or even accept things they either physically or psychologically cannot perceive or do not wish to perceive and accept it.
7 hours ago
More importantly, I imagine a 2D map would not be useful for fish: there is much more space to represent when you can also swim up and down.
7 hours ago
the fish need more data:
- depths https://www.horizont.net/news/media/8/Die-Schaup-des-jeweil-...
- and temperature https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/...
2 hours ago
and salinity
9 hours ago
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.
2 hours ago
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.
10 hours ago
That is an awesome map
