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I am a nerd about map projections. I don't like how typical maps distort the area near the poles. It makes it so you can't see the shape of Antarctica, Greenland is always either misshapen or large, and you can't see how the north of Eurasia curves around the pole.

I wanted to make a projection that shows the shape of all the continents accurately, and shows their placement relative to the nearest continent. To achieve this I threw away the standard orientation. What do you think?

I wrote my map projector in C and OpenCL and I am using the Pierce Quincuncial projection. I take advantage of its tesselability to make the map rectangular, instead of the square this projection usually generates.