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Mercator v Reality (i.imgur.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Eckert IV is mine, which is quite similar visually. It has the upside of being equal-area, but the downside of squashing the poles a bit more. Sadly both of us suffer the injustice of being excluded from that one xkcd comic

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It looks cool!