I immensely appreciate how you move the centerpoint of the map around so we can actually see how it warps stuff, instead of having to infer it from the lat-long lines. Gall-Peters is the best ma- ahahahah just kidding, W-T is pretty nice imo
Gall-Peters is an equal area projection. It’s useful if you want to compare e.g. Europe to Africa or China to the USA. Other 2d projections obscure the area to some extent, of necessity.
I've never had a favorite map projection. I have a comfortable pair of running shoes that I wear everywhere. I like coffee and enjoy The Beatles. I have a new favorite map projection.
Same here: comfortable shoes, love the Beatles, can't live without my coffee. but I think the globe is my favourite representation, I mean how simpler can it be?
I've never had a favorite map projection. I like flattening 3D surfaces like a peel, which is easy enough for me. I like easy solutions. I think we wouldn't have so many problems if we let normal people to the Congress instead of politicians. I change my car's oil, but secretly wonder if I need to. Now I have a favorite map projection.
I've never had a favorite projection. I think we would be way better off electing normal people to congress instead of politicians, airports should buy from the restaurants and serve that, and I Change my oil but I've always wondered if I *need* to. Anyways, please stop pestering me about map projections, I just want to enjoy my dinner.
Gall-Peters is for losers like me who realized that there'd never be a perfect world and concluded that maximizing chaos was the right answer. I love it.
As an equirectangular projection enjoyer too, I’m tired of maps trying to solve an impossible problem and like the simplest solution. Heh just kidding, I can’t not appreciate the creativity put into these (and not just because you can’t fold a globe).
They think you dislike talking about map projection, they don't realize you favour equirectangular for the ease of reprojection into other projections.
@@cara-seyun unlike dvorak which is a very comfy keyboard layout and even better for typing with your thumbs on your phone. Dvorak users have time to gain competency in origami with all the time they save typing, which they use to visualize how to fold the dymaxion projection into a sphere.
I think the Mercator gets a bad wrap just because it's so common. As someone who actually uses maps to navigate what they depict. The constant bearings of the Mercator projection are a godsend. It's best suited map to follow the actual original utility of a map. To navigate. A Mercator projection in combination with a globe pretty much encompasses anything I'd need a map to do. Even without a globe one can always calculate the great circle arc on a Mercator.
@@gormauslander try plotting routes with straight lines on a globe. Certainly achievable with the right tools, but far easier to do on flat map on a table with a ruler and protractor. Also the globe is constrained to depict only the entire earth whereas I might only want to view a certain portion of it in finer detail. It's quite simple to cut a piece out of a flat Mercator projection then scale it appropriately. Than to have a scaled portion of a globe. How the hell would you mount the thing? Even in a digital format it's far easier to plot points on a flat projection than to navigate a 3 dimensional one. It also takes far less computing power. And relying solely on a globe becomes impractical when your main mode of navigation relies on bearings between two or more objects over a great distance.
@@gormauslander globes are however useful for accurate and easy measurements of area and distance. They become much more practical in high latitude navigation. And they are great for plotting the shortest route between two objects over a great distance, especially in higher latitudes. But of course nowadays most chart plotting software already have built in calculations to solve for the great circle arc without the need for a globe.
@@HansBezemer yes I'm well aware of the string method. But plotting a straight route is much more than just running a straight line on a map. A straight line with no described direction means nothing to the navigator. Try to measure the bearing between the points of the string. Not only will it be inconvenient to measure, but you will notice that the route you plotted with your string likely does not preserve a constant bearing hence you'll have to plot several points on the string and measure each of their respective bearings. Another issue arises when trying to triangulate your position based on bearings between several objects on a globe in a timely manner. The string will not yield an accurate result by itself. Yes it can be done with the right tools and a little math, but why go through the hassle when you have a projection that was purpose built for it?
I'm going to admit to really liking the Peirce-Quincuncial. I'm aware that waiting for the P-Q to come up because I haven't forgotten about it after all this time, and that feeling the need to go back to reread the caption, see the initial projection before the animation, and *then* over-explain all of this, means Randall was right about me.
Team P-Q Represent! I love the different perspective it gives on our familiar planet (while also reducing landmass size distortion) -- It makes you think about how arbitrary the usual representations are.
Not all that into cartography, actually, but this inspired me to look up the Waterson Butterfly, and, having seen it, I now love it, mostly from a mathematical perspective.
Same thing happened to me when I ran into the xkcd comic. I have it downloaded on my phone so I can show it to people who try to make small talk when I want to be left alone.
for years I've had a set of them, one centered on the pacific and one centered on the atlantic, saved to a wishlist and someday I'll buy them and put them up in my home.... someday.....
@@joet3935Interesting approach, I just say whatever weird shit is on my mind, that or the most gory horrifying historical factoid I can remember at the moment
I normally just scroll past videos based on xkcd, because they're usually just making a low effort video based on Randall's work. This is the opposite of that, i really appreciate this. I'm just sad i didn't see it for two years.
For world maps, my favorite probably is Lambert's equal area azimuthal projecrion, if you only map one hemisphere at a time. It strikes a balance between mathematical beauty in its construction and actual usability. Tobler's hyperelliptic is also nice. Anyway, there's no way around the fact that Mercator is a supremely useful projection and the only sensible choice when you want to map a small area, since it's the unique projection that looks right everywhere at all zoom levels. That also makes it perfect for interactive maps like Google Maps or OSM.
Jason Davies already made a really good one that goes into many other projections that weren't mentioned in the video. I'll reply with the link if youtube lets me, if not you can just look up "Jason Davies map projections"
Why people think I like the Waterman Butterfly: Mathamatically nice, not too controversial, preserves the shape of the continents, easy to imagine as a polyhedral projection, deeply understands map projections Why I really like the Waterman Butterfly: Woah pretty butterfly :D
I actually like the lack of narration. My mind's voice when reading this text was a skinny Bristolian man about 34 years old who I imagine had a tall rectangular face. In other words it was fun.
The animations really help you grasp where they're most distorted. I do wish there was a version with the equator and maybe some other reference lines drawn in.
What really gets me is I actually do have a pair of shoes i wear everywhere and do love coffee. Really excellent job putting this together. More than a repost, youve done a lovely job in adding a lot of information and interest through these animations. Great work! I really enjoyed this
Wow! I'm adding this to my list of favorite YT videos. Thank-you so much for this. I was skeptical at first to think of what animating the map would mean... but wow, this is essential watching for anyone who's a fan of map projections.
1:55 Shoutout to the Kavrayskiy Projection. I would complain that it doesn't make an appearance, but it also looks uncannily like the Robinson Projection. On first glance they appear virtually identical.
this is the first video i have ever seen about maps. why are these all so specific? why do they all attempt to lunge at my brain and connect with me in some way? waterman butterfly is pretty nice tho; i like how i can imagine it wrapping itself into a circle.
I think the mercator projection is underappreciated. It's not _just_ the standard map. It's a _conformal_ map. The only one with north = up, in fact. It preserves angles and compass directions. It's famous for not being able to accurately show scale, but that's a property of all conformal maps of the globe (that aren't themselves globes, anyway). As for why conformal maps are so nice, it's because when you zoom in on such a map, you don't get weird aspect ratios. If you zoom in on a conformal map to a small scale, you just get the map you expect if you assumed the land was flat (which, at small scales, it is). A non-conformal map would give you a different aspect ratio somewhere. Anyway, I'd say that the mercator projection is the standard map for very good reasons. If only considering other choices, my next favourites would also be conformal maps (e.g. the stereographic projection). I guess if I couldn't pick a conformal map, I'd pick one that just directly maps latitudes and longitudes to horizontal and vertical coordinates or something, just because of how easily you can describe the projection from the map's (u,v) coordinates to a set of physical (x,y,z) coordinates.
Hot take: Mercator gets a bad rap. Most people say something along the lines of "when the Mercator projection was first invented it was used by sailors for navigation, but it's less useful for how we use it today." However, most of the time we use maps today we use them for navigation. Imagine how terrible it would be to use google maps and see what looks like a right angled turn on your gps but you're actually turning at a different angle. Then imagine that difference in angle changing depending on where you are in the world. So Mercator is my favorite map projection, even though I know its flaws.
2 years on, and so little has changed. we still put our maps on one leg at a time. i dunno why youtube decided to show me this now, but i greatly appreciate it. they're also missing a couple of decimal points in your subscriber count i see. subscribed.
The original comic was the first place I saw the word “dymaxion”, but I only decided to use it for a username after reading a lot about Buckminster Fuller. I love the dymaxion map for diagrams of prehistoric human migration, but for other purposes I generally like equirectangular. Globes are my true number one though, I can’t deny the joy of viewing spinning 3D models.
My favorite map is that contoured globe they had in science class, with mountains and oceans molded in realistic height and depth. Man, that one was so cool.
Very good animations, I hate how accurate xkcd is on describing me with the goode homolosine as my favorite though While the shape is unsatisfactory, the actual map has remarkably little distortion, with it being very easy to understand where the seams connect, unlike the monstrosities necessary to have even less distortion
my favourite one doesnt have a name lol. its 2 azimuth maps split at the equator, so you get 2 perfect circles reprsenting the north and south hemispheres. you could do the same with west and east hemispheres tho
The Dymaxion is pretty nice, but it's still a Goode Homolosine for me. Didnt know i had a favorite map type until- actually no, i do think it's been my favorite since i first heard about it. Like the dymaxion, it's got very small amounts of warping. That's enough to warrant a high place in my rankings. Although i suppose the dymaxion's got less warping, although that one's got wiggling... Ehhh too complicated a shape, either way. Edit: kinda wish you'd included an Australian-based world map as a bit of a joke. Just. An upsidedown map. Since that's apparently how they do it (i know that's most likely a joke but shhh let's pretend for a second)
I don't like the Goode Homolosine for purely emotional and aesthetic reasons. First of all just look at it I hate the wierd bulges and stuff. Second of all it's an ugly name as well, I don't want to say homosexual slime that sounds homophobic
i like the globe and the robbinson and the ones that look like robbinson, i like all the ones that are like flatened spheres like orange or triangles or such, i like when maps have countries be the right size and shape at the cost of position,
That was an absolute masterpiece! Subbed. Also, i have liked the waterman-butterfly since a very very long time lol. Fun to see atleast another soul mentioning it!
my favorite map is the globe, but if i don’t have my trusty globe handy then i don’t care what map i use as long as it isn’t the map we don’t talk about.
I need more chaotic projections, I dont want people to be able to point themselves out on my map. Maybe like equirectangular but x=x*(some function of altitude). Y can be projected based on average temperature of a region.
For any Goode Homolosine fans out there, yes, you do really need to. I lost a car to an engine freeze. It's the only way to total a car without being involved in a collision.
S TIER: Globe A TIER: Dymaxion, Equirectangular (Plate Carrée), Robinson, Winkel-Tripel B TIER: Van Der Grinten, Waterman Butterfly C TIER: Hobo Dyer, Gall-Peters D TIER: Goode Homolosine, Pierce Quincuncial
@@LeLe-pm2pr I did put Dymaxion at the top of A Tier, but you have a good point. there's contexts in which both approaches can be more useful. the Waterman Butterfly for example, probably wouldn't work as a great image on a poster or children's textbook, but could definitely be very useful in applications in which practicality trumps aesthetics. (See: BTE in Minecraft.) I do think I judged The Butterfly slightly too harshly though; I moved it up to B Tier.
@@LeLe-pm2pr Which is why the Lambert projection is pretty good in my book. But the Hobo-Dyer and Gall-Peters are both worse versions of that, especially Gall-Peters.
I choose my maps based on what they conserve, like area, distance, shape, or whatever might be needed from that map. I also don’t generally use a world map when not doing broad comparisons, and just use 2 local maps drawn to the same scale
You are the kind of guy that will find a way to OTA update my offline analog copy of your book(s) and animate their illustrations. I recheck all the pages every few years.
Dymaxion is really useful if you're looking to plot a path of something and distances are important to you. A globe would be better sure, but it's hard to get my printer to do convex shapes.
I'm studying for a geography exam and i'm really enjoying it. This will also be my first exam in university and seeing this video made me laugh and feel part of a fandom
The Dymaxion sliced that particular way only makes sense when the sinuses don't penetrate the landmasses (near the beginning) -- that's what took so long to find, projection algorithm aside.
I think I'm partial to the Robinson. It's essentially the solution I'd come up with for turning a spherical object flat, and the distortion is only minor, and basically what you'd expect from what is essentially an orange with no flesh and a cut down the middle.
I liked a version that's pretty similar to Goode Homolosine, just not so goofy aah. Can't remember though. In the end, if it isn't globe, it's wrong, and I'm too stupid to quickly understand exactly where and why. So I have a lot of distortions and unrealistic projections about the surface area of countries.
The why is that if it doesn't get a length wrong then it gets angles wrong, and lots get both wrong, while a globe can get it all good enough the first time.
I remember feeling shocked at how well Randall described me first time I saw this comic. Robinson is my favorite projection, and I like the Beatles, drink coffee, and (at the time) had a comfortable pair of running shoes I wore everywhere. He definitely got me good.
Wonderful! If you ever want to do it, I'd love to see Authagraph done the same way. It's similar to Dymaxion, but rectangular -- its triangles are much more convoluted!
It's a tie between Hobo-Dyer and Plate Carrée. They're both generally accurate but also very framable. Not to mention the ease of transition fron Mercator.
I immensely appreciate how you move the centerpoint of the map around so we can actually see how it warps stuff, instead of having to infer it from the lat-long lines. Gall-Peters is the best ma- ahahahah just kidding, W-T is pretty nice imo
Second W-T
Gall-Peters is an equal area projection. It’s useful if you want to compare e.g. Europe to Africa or China to the USA. Other 2d projections obscure the area to some extent, of necessity.
I've never had a favorite map projection.
I have a comfortable pair of running shoes that I wear everywhere. I like coffee and enjoy The Beatles.
I have a new favorite map projection.
I want to avoid colonialist maps and have pronouns so I find my favorite too
Same here: comfortable shoes, love the Beatles, can't live without my coffee. but I think the globe is my favourite representation, I mean how simpler can it be?
I've never had a favorite map projection.
I like flattening 3D surfaces like a peel, which is easy enough for me.
I like easy solutions.
I think we wouldn't have so many problems if we let normal people to the Congress instead of politicians.
I change my car's oil, but secretly wonder if I need to.
Now I have a favorite map projection.
My favorite musical genre starts with "post-". I have a now have a favorite map projection.
I've never had a favorite projection. I think we would be way better off electing normal people to congress instead of politicians, airports should buy from the restaurants and serve that, and I Change my oil but I've always wondered if I *need* to.
Anyways, please stop pestering me about map projections, I just want to enjoy my dinner.
Gall-Peters is for losers like me who realized that there'd never be a perfect world and concluded that maximizing chaos was the right answer. I love it.
Maximising chaos and putting the Europeans in their place.* :P
Gall peters upside down
Screw imperalists
"maximizing chaos".... Yes. ..... I love it.. yessss ...
Funny@@tsartomato
What about North Asia though?
1:31 New Zealand here looks like a salmon leaping over the edges of the map
Now I saw it, very cute!
Lol
As an equirectangular projection enjoyer, I resent that anyone would think I don't want to keep talking about map projections.
As an equirectangular projection enjoyer too, I’m tired of maps trying to solve an impossible problem and like the simplest solution. Heh just kidding, I can’t not appreciate the creativity put into these (and not just because you can’t fold a globe).
As an equirectangular projection enjoyer, I enjoy not needing a computer program to draw my maps 😔
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They think you dislike talking about map projection, they don't realize you favour equirectangular for the ease of reprojection into other projections.
It's easily in my top 5. The 2:1 ratio and being equidistant vertically make it actually very intuitive for imagining the globe.
Dymaxion has so little distortion. Most maps look really weird when rotated "the wrong way", but that one keeps it's look pretty well.
Problem is its super hard to imagine how it turns into a globe compared to the other polyhedral projections
Except it’s very difficult to actually use it as a global map, such as charting Magellan’s travels, or any multi-continent shipping routes
@@cara-seyun unlike dvorak which is a very comfy keyboard layout and even better for typing with your thumbs on your phone. Dvorak users have time to gain competency in origami with all the time they save typing, which they use to visualize how to fold the dymaxion projection into a sphere.
@@cara-seyunIf you use a digital version of it it's not so bad but I guess you could just use a globe in that case!
It does, I just wish it were symmetrical.
What a labor of love. Great job on the animation, mate!
Thanks!
@@dataplayground839 i like fish
@@jan_Mamu me too
@@jan_MamuI hate fish
@@CentrallntelligenceAgency i changed my mind, lemons are my new best friend
I think the Mercator gets a bad wrap just because it's so common. As someone who actually uses maps to navigate what they depict. The constant bearings of the Mercator projection are a godsend. It's best suited map to follow the actual original utility of a map. To navigate. A Mercator projection in combination with a globe pretty much encompasses anything I'd need a map to do. Even without a globe one can always calculate the great circle arc on a Mercator.
Why not just use a globe
@@gormauslander try plotting routes with straight lines on a globe. Certainly achievable with the right tools, but far easier to do on flat map on a table with a ruler and protractor. Also the globe is constrained to depict only the entire earth whereas I might only want to view a certain portion of it in finer detail. It's quite simple to cut a piece out of a flat Mercator projection then scale it appropriately. Than to have a scaled portion of a globe. How the hell would you mount the thing?
Even in a digital format it's far easier to plot points on a flat projection than to navigate a 3 dimensional one. It also takes far less computing power. And relying solely on a globe becomes impractical when your main mode of navigation relies on bearings between two or more objects over a great distance.
@@gormauslander globes are however useful for accurate and easy measurements of area and distance. They become much more practical in high latitude navigation. And they are great for plotting the shortest route between two objects over a great distance, especially in higher latitudes. But of course nowadays most chart plotting software already have built in calculations to solve for the great circle arc without the need for a globe.
@@kimjongmill4445 "Try plotting routes with straight lines on a globe". Use a string. Pull it tight. Done.
@@HansBezemer yes I'm well aware of the string method. But plotting a straight route is much more than just running a straight line on a map. A straight line with no described direction means nothing to the navigator. Try to measure the bearing between the points of the string. Not only will it be inconvenient to measure, but you will notice that the route you plotted with your string likely does not preserve a constant bearing hence you'll have to plot several points on the string and measure each of their respective bearings. Another issue arises when trying to triangulate your position based on bearings between several objects on a globe in a timely manner. The string will not yield an accurate result by itself. Yes it can be done with the right tools and a little math, but why go through the hassle when you have a projection that was purpose built for it?
I'm going to admit to really liking the Peirce-Quincuncial. I'm aware that waiting for the P-Q to come up because I haven't forgotten about it after all this time, and that feeling the need to go back to reread the caption, see the initial projection before the animation, and *then* over-explain all of this, means Randall was right about me.
Hi, I have a skeleton inside me :D
_Looks at hands_
_Looks at navel_
"But... _why_ should P-Q be my favorite?"
(It's because you were incepted)
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Team P-Q Represent! I love the different perspective it gives on our familiar planet (while also reducing landmass size distortion) -- It makes you think about how arbitrary the usual representations are.
I really love peirce quincuncial and authagraph projections because they tessellate the plane!! The caption was definitely accurate for me
The shoes with toes gag is clever because they fit your feet perfectly but they look awkward
Not all that into cartography, actually, but this inspired me to look up the Waterson Butterfly, and, having seen it, I now love it, mostly from a mathematical perspective.
Same thing happened to me when I ran into the xkcd comic. I have it downloaded on my phone so I can show it to people who try to make small talk when I want to be left alone.
for years I've had a set of them, one centered on the pacific and one centered on the atlantic, saved to a wishlist and someday I'll buy them and put them up in my home.... someday.....
@@joet3935Interesting approach, I just say whatever weird shit is on my mind, that or the most gory horrifying historical factoid I can remember at the moment
Good lord those captions, Randall was out for *blood*
I normally just scroll past videos based on xkcd, because they're usually just making a low effort video based on Randall's work. This is the opposite of that, i really appreciate this. I'm just sad i didn't see it for two years.
For world maps, my favorite probably is Lambert's equal area azimuthal projecrion, if you only map one hemisphere at a time. It strikes a balance between mathematical beauty in its construction and actual usability. Tobler's hyperelliptic is also nice.
Anyway, there's no way around the fact that Mercator is a supremely useful projection and the only sensible choice when you want to map a small area, since it's the unique projection that looks right everywhere at all zoom levels. That also makes it perfect for interactive maps like Google Maps or OSM.
After looking up Lambert's equal area azimuthal projection, I can confirm that Lambert's equal area azimuthal projection is my favorite projection
There should be a website like this where you can move the centerpoint
If someone wants to try making this, look into the d3-geo world map on observablehq as a starting point.
Jason Davies already made a really good one that goes into many other projections that weren't mentioned in the video. I'll reply with the link if youtube lets me, if not you can just look up "Jason Davies map projections"
i already commented on this, but i think yt might've removed it :( it's the self titled website of Jason Davies(you can just google the name)
:)
There is. I remember playing with it for several hours. No, I don't remember what it was called -.-
can anyone see my comments, i think they're getting sucked into a black hole
This video really sold me on the fact that the Waterman Butterfly is the best one.
Why people think I like the Waterman Butterfly:
Mathamatically nice, not too controversial, preserves the shape of the continents, easy to imagine as a polyhedral projection, deeply understands map projections
Why I really like the Waterman Butterfly:
Woah pretty butterfly :D
Bold of you to assume one can't love it for both reasons simultaneously.
I actually like the lack of narration. My mind's voice when reading this text was a skinny Bristolian man about 34 years old who I imagine had a tall rectangular face. In other words it was fun.
The animations really help you grasp where they're most distorted. I do wish there was a version with the equator and maybe some other reference lines drawn in.
I seem to remember a project to map the entire Earth in Minecraft, that used a projection a lot like Dymaxion because it had the least warping.
Perfectly sourced and cited. Randall Munroe would be proud
How ironic, then, that Randall was incorrect about the Cahill map.
What really gets me is I actually do have a pair of shoes i wear everywhere and do love coffee.
Really excellent job putting this together. More than a repost, youve done a lovely job in adding a lot of information and interest through these animations. Great work! I really enjoyed this
A+ for the animations!
I used to prefer Dymaxion, but the Waterman is so well laid out, and performs similarly, that it has become my preference.
Wow! I'm adding this to my list of favorite YT videos. Thank-you so much for this. I was skeptical at first to think of what animating the map would mean... but wow, this is essential watching for anyone who's a fan of map projections.
My favorite is the Waterman Butterfly because it solves the issue of Antartica being really distorted in the most elegant way.
1:55 Shoutout to the Kavrayskiy Projection.
I would complain that it doesn't make an appearance, but it also looks uncannily like the Robinson Projection. On first glance they appear virtually identical.
this is the first video i have ever seen about maps. why are these all so specific? why do they all attempt to lunge at my brain and connect with me in some way? waterman butterfly is pretty nice tho; i like how i can imagine it wrapping itself into a circle.
I imagine you're not particulary familiar with Randall Munroe (XKCD author) either then.
It wraps into a truncated octahedron, which isn’t really a circle but is kinda-sorta better than a cylinder
I think the mercator projection is underappreciated. It's not _just_ the standard map. It's a _conformal_ map. The only one with north = up, in fact. It preserves angles and compass directions. It's famous for not being able to accurately show scale, but that's a property of all conformal maps of the globe (that aren't themselves globes, anyway).
As for why conformal maps are so nice, it's because when you zoom in on such a map, you don't get weird aspect ratios. If you zoom in on a conformal map to a small scale, you just get the map you expect if you assumed the land was flat (which, at small scales, it is). A non-conformal map would give you a different aspect ratio somewhere.
Anyway, I'd say that the mercator projection is the standard map for very good reasons. If only considering other choices, my next favourites would also be conformal maps (e.g. the stereographic projection). I guess if I couldn't pick a conformal map, I'd pick one that just directly maps latitudes and longitudes to horizontal and vertical coordinates or something, just because of how easily you can describe the projection from the map's (u,v) coordinates to a set of physical (x,y,z) coordinates.
Hot take: Mercator gets a bad rap. Most people say something along the lines of "when the Mercator projection was first invented it was used by sailors for navigation, but it's less useful for how we use it today." However, most of the time we use maps today we use them for navigation. Imagine how terrible it would be to use google maps and see what looks like a right angled turn on your gps but you're actually turning at a different angle. Then imagine that difference in angle changing depending on where you are in the world. So Mercator is my favorite map projection, even though I know its flaws.
The animation really helps comparing the distortions between maps. New respect for dymaxion map!
I like the equirectangular because you can draw a fictional fantasy map by hand and turn it into a sphere.
"wow, this looks pretty solid and accurate"
Then rotation starts and it totally looks like a lava lamp.
It is scientifically derivable that all Vision Pro users immediately gain a liking towards the dymaxion.
I don't particularly like coffee and the Beatles but he is eerily accurate with the shoes
You're not alone, I was just gonna say the same thing
running shoes are so good, people should wear them everywhere.
Maybe you just havent had decent beans and would best like a less loved era of the beatles... just sayin
@@Mighty_AtheismoKenyan coffee and Love me do? Don’t mind if I do!
@@fastest-hotdog-shooter sumatran and the solo projects even ringo's? Maybe!
Robinson is the best map projection
*equal earth
my favorite one is the Goode's Homolosine one.
2 years on, and so little has changed. we still put our maps on one leg at a time. i dunno why youtube decided to show me this now, but i greatly appreciate it. they're also missing a couple of decimal points in your subscriber count i see. subscribed.
The original comic was the first place I saw the word “dymaxion”, but I only decided to use it for a username after reading a lot about Buckminster Fuller. I love the dymaxion map for diagrams of prehistoric human migration, but for other purposes I generally like equirectangular. Globes are my true number one though, I can’t deny the joy of viewing spinning 3D models.
My favorite map is that contoured globe they had in science class, with mountains and oceans molded in realistic height and depth. Man, that one was so cool.
Yes, you're very clever.
Robinson is my favorite map, and yes - bizarrely - all of those descriptions are correct.
Very good animations, I hate how accurate xkcd is on describing me with the goode homolosine as my favorite though
While the shape is unsatisfactory, the actual map has remarkably little distortion, with it being very easy to understand where the seams connect, unlike the monstrosities necessary to have even less distortion
my favourite one doesnt have a name lol. its 2 azimuth maps split at the equator, so you get 2 perfect circles reprsenting the north and south hemispheres. you could do the same with west and east hemispheres tho
I don't know if my favourite has a name either:
"parallel canoes" touching each other at the equator.
That's the Vanderbei projection, incidentally.
@@Tevildo oh, wow, thanks!
The Dymaxion is pretty nice, but it's still a Goode Homolosine for me. Didnt know i had a favorite map type until- actually no, i do think it's been my favorite since i first heard about it. Like the dymaxion, it's got very small amounts of warping. That's enough to warrant a high place in my rankings. Although i suppose the dymaxion's got less warping, although that one's got wiggling... Ehhh too complicated a shape, either way.
Edit: kinda wish you'd included an Australian-based world map as a bit of a joke. Just. An upsidedown map. Since that's apparently how they do it (i know that's most likely a joke but shhh let's pretend for a second)
I don't like the Goode Homolosine for purely emotional and aesthetic reasons. First of all just look at it I hate the wierd bulges and stuff. Second of all it's an ugly name as well, I don't want to say homosexual slime that sounds homophobic
It took me until reading this comment to realize that it was "Goode" and not Google". It's also my favorite
@@aBucketOfPuppiesshit, same here, never would've realized unless I'd read your reply
@@TheRealFallingFisti also thought it was google for a moment
I think I read on wikipedia that there actually is an upside down hobo dyers map drawn by the Wizard of New Zealand
i like the globe and the robbinson and the ones that look like robbinson, i like all the ones that are like flatened spheres like orange or triangles or such, i like when maps have countries be the right size and shape at the cost of position,
That was an absolute masterpiece! Subbed.
Also, i have liked the waterman-butterfly since a very very long time lol. Fun to see atleast another soul mentioning it!
my favorite map is the globe, but if i don’t have my trusty globe handy then i don’t care what map i use as long as it isn’t the map we don’t talk about.
Dymaxion is cool because you can print it out can fold it into funky globe
As an Australian, my only concern when looking for a map is that Greenland is put in its goddamn place
Strebe's dymaxion-like conformal projection is the one for me. I don't wear shoes with individual toes ... but I have considered it.
I need more chaotic projections, I dont want people to be able to point themselves out on my map. Maybe like equirectangular but x=x*(some function of altitude). Y can be projected based on average temperature of a region.
I dsagree with Randall here. The others may _look_ pretty, but Mercator is the only one you can use for navigation.
For any Goode Homolosine fans out there, yes, you do really need to. I lost a car to an engine freeze. It's the only way to total a car without being involved in a collision.
as a pierce quincunical enjoyer, I can’t believe how accurate that was
S TIER: Globe
A TIER: Dymaxion, Equirectangular (Plate Carrée), Robinson, Winkel-Tripel
B TIER: Van Der Grinten, Waterman Butterfly
C TIER: Hobo Dyer, Gall-Peters
D TIER: Goode Homolosine, Pierce Quincuncial
sacrificing shape for a more accurate representation of the area isn't that bad yknow
@@LeLe-pm2pr I did put Dymaxion at the top of A Tier, but you have a good point. there's contexts in which both approaches can be more useful. the Waterman Butterfly for example, probably wouldn't work as a great image on a poster or children's textbook, but could definitely be very useful in applications in which practicality trumps aesthetics. (See: BTE in Minecraft.)
I do think I judged The Butterfly slightly too harshly though; I moved it up to B Tier.
@@LeLe-pm2pr no it isnt... if there was sth worse than d i'd put gall peters there.
@@mil87_"useful in applications where practically trumps aesthetics" Phrases I never thought would ever be said about a _butterfly._
@@LeLe-pm2pr Which is why the Lambert projection is pretty good in my book. But the Hobo-Dyer and Gall-Peters are both worse versions of that, especially Gall-Peters.
This is very wholesome
Thw butterfly one is by far rhe most beatiful
Globe is most accurate
Mercator is most used
Gall-Peters is obviously the most chaotic
Congrats on getting picked up by the algorithm
The Robinson is hands down the best projection.
In the most genuine and loving way, there should be a link to this in the wikipedia page for autism
I watched this while waiting for glue to dry, it was well worth it
I really enjoyed watching South America and Australia doing cartwheels at the top and bottom, respectively, of the dymaxion projection
this is my favorite video for now
I can't beleive I took an entire GIS class to be prepared to watch this video
That was relaxing
I can only imagine how much work making all of these animations was. Huge respect.
Mollweide (not shown in video) because it is equal area
Rorschach has been real quite since this dropped.😁
@the8333, the likes have been quite real since this was edited.
i've never seen transformations of Dymaxion before. beautiful!
Hey this is awesome! Had no idea how many maps there were
Mercator supremacy
Maps are great. Could watch all day. Does anyone else think about how these projections would make other objects look?
Yes. I wanna say I had a book that had examples 25 years ago
Thank you for the tasteful ragtime accompaniment
Thank you for giving me a question to ask people to reinforce their suspicion that I’m a dork.
I appreciate that most of the projections end up with Antarctica in the middle, as it should be
you forgot the euler spiral
I choose my maps based on what they conserve, like area, distance, shape, or whatever might be needed from that map. I also don’t generally use a world map when not doing broad comparisons, and just use 2 local maps drawn to the same scale
You are the kind of guy that will find a way to OTA update my offline analog copy of your book(s) and animate their illustrations.
I recheck all the pages every few years.
This is awesome, thank you for sharing it.
Dymaxion is really useful if you're looking to plot a path of something and distances are important to you. A globe would be better sure, but it's hard to get my printer to do convex shapes.
I like the Plate Carrée best, personally.
My favorite map projection is the Double Hemisphere projection.
Rotating the center point made me feel lied to
I love how Dymaxion makes antarctica wiggle like that
Big fan of Antarctica just bobbing along like a fish in the second rotation of the Dymaxion.
Personally, my favorite map projections are Robinson and Equirectangular.
Best video i've seen in months
Man I forgot how good this comic was
I'm studying for a geography exam and i'm really enjoying it. This will also be my first exam in university and seeing this video made me laugh and feel part of a fandom
Well you nailed me on both accounts, for liking dually Robinson and Dymaxion variants. ❤
The Robinson was 100% accurate
The Dymaxion sliced that particular way only makes sense when the sinuses don't penetrate the landmasses (near the beginning) -- that's what took so long to find, projection algorithm aside.
I like robinson and the description was spot on wtf
I think I'm partial to the Robinson. It's essentially the solution I'd come up with for turning a spherical object flat, and the distortion is only minor, and basically what you'd expect from what is essentially an orange with no flesh and a cut down the middle.
I gotta say, that globe one looks pretty cool
Honestly, 2d projected globe is my favorite. It’s easy to visualize the areas in your brain because its just a sphere
I liked a version that's pretty similar to Goode Homolosine, just not so goofy aah. Can't remember though. In the end, if it isn't globe, it's wrong, and I'm too stupid to quickly understand exactly where and why. So I have a lot of distortions and unrealistic projections about the surface area of countries.
The why is that if it doesn't get a length wrong then it gets angles wrong, and lots get both wrong, while a globe can get it all good enough the first time.
I remember feeling shocked at how well Randall described me first time I saw this comic. Robinson is my favorite projection, and I like the Beatles, drink coffee, and (at the time) had a comfortable pair of running shoes I wore everywhere. He definitely got me good.
Wonderful! If you ever want to do it, I'd love to see Authagraph done the same way. It's similar to Dymaxion, but rectangular -- its triangles are much more convoluted!
It's a tie between Hobo-Dyer and Plate Carrée.
They're both generally accurate but also very framable. Not to mention the ease of transition fron Mercator.
Now i just have to decide which of these to paste onto a cube to make the perfect globe
Globes are superior, fight me.