Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

What’s the best way to to a mastodon version of https://twitter.com/salkjorts/ ?

https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2022/11/14/the-unnecessary-peril-of-the-fuller-projection/ is really unfortunate; I think the Fuller projection is useful and should be used more seriously.

I do suspect that you could find better projections on similar principles by (practically) exhaustive search of polyhedron rotations on Earth’s landmasses.

https://medium.com/vis-gl/unfolding-the-earth-myriahedral-projections-in-webgl-6b2bcfd00a30 goes in that direction and I think its octahedron is already arguably better than Fuller for its simplicity.

I’ll tell you what I would pay $8 for is a tier of YouTube where the tutorial videos didn’t contain self-deprecating laughter at bad jokes.

@meetar There’s no way this is right.

@meetar If math humor is wrong, well, I’m not surprised.

Sometimes you’ll encounter a scale-related image processing problem and think “I know! I’ll use pyramids!” Now you have 1.333 problems.

Just a few of the many textures present on Earth.

@migurski Changing my bio to “Shake your phone and shout ‘No’ to dismiss”.