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Wuslopebology
Personal blog · kunimune.blogmathscience
Wuslopebology is a personal blog at kunimune.blog about math and science. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Elastic Map Projections”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on world map projections, including Elastic II, a numerical optimisation approach to minimising distortion. HN commenters link it only as a related reference, not for judgement of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog about maps, languages, and nuclear fusion.
Most-linked posts?
- Elastic Map Projections3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-11-23
What Hacker News says?
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: https://kunimune.blog/2023/12/29/introducing-the-elastic-pro...
Comment linking /2023/12/29/introducing-the-elastic-projections/
on “The Spilhaus Projection: A world map according to fish”Submitted Elastic Map Projections as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elastic Projections as a story · 1 points
HN discussion