Author has AI agents spend 6 hours designing a better equal-area world map projection than the UN's Equal Earth
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-09-17
Unhappy with the UN's adoption of the (in his view) strange Equal Earth projection, the author had a bunch of AI agents cook for 6 hours to design a better one. The result: an equal-area projection (relative country areas = truth) with no cuts on land and minimal shear/shape distortion. He thinks it's pretty good.
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