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Atlas by Giacomo Alef Faiella

An Earth where Lands and Oceans have the same inverted shape

Escher Projection

Downside up

Upside down

Examples of Corresponding Points:

Australia = Mediterranean Sea

Africa = Pacific Ocean

Asia = Indian Ocean

America = Atlantic Ocean

Antarctica = Arctic Ocean

India = Bay of Bengal

Indochina = Arabian Sea

Sumatra = Caspian Sea

Borneo = Black Sea

Philippines = Red Sea

New Zealand = Baltic & North Sea

Japan = African Great Lakes

Madagascar = Sea of Okhotsk

Tasmania = Adriatic Sea

Kamchatka = Mozambique Channel

Sri Lanka = Ganges Delta

Antille = River Amazon...

Two Focus or Fixed Points: One in India (Kakinada) and the other in Venezuela (Caracas)

This is a map that takes some time to get your head around; quite literally, because to appreciate it fully, you need to consider it both with its north side and its south side up...

And what do you know? There is no right side up -- or rather: there is no wrong side up. For this is a planisphere palindrome, a planet-chart that can be 'read' the same way 'upside up' and upside down. This is very strange. The size and distribution of the world's continents and oceans is random, the result of millions of years of continental drift. That process is still ongoing: the way the world looks like on our maps is but a snapshot, even if it feels like an eternity from our human perspective.

It would seem impossible to find a pattern with global consistency in that random jumble of land masses and water bodies. A map showing the overlap of antipodean dry lands doesn't seem to indicate any, at least. But the Italian artist Giacomo Faiella did find such a pattern. 

taken from "strange maps"  Frank Jacobs

Some Links about this map

Strange Maps - Frank Jacobs

Mapa Palindrómico

MapPorn

El mapamundi palindromo

A balanced world map

An earth where the antipodal points are 100% land-sea

Pythagoras-Plato-Dante Projection

2.0 B/W

Examples of Antipodal Points:

Antarctica = Arctic Ocean

Eurasia = South Pacific Ocean

Africa = Central Pacific Ocean

South America = North Pacific Ocean

North America = Indian Ocean

Australia (Atlantipode) = North Atlantic Ocean

New Zealand = Mediterranean Sea

Antilles = Australasian Sea

Malay Archipelago = Caraibben Sea

Antipodea 1.0 Colors

An Earth where the Eastern and Western emisphere are equal

Plateau-Madou Projection

Examples of Twinned Areas:

Australia = Greenland

Africa = South America

Europe = Central America

Asia = North America

Madagascar = Antarctica Peninsula 

New Zealand = United Kingdom

Tasmania = Iceland

Fenno-Scandinavia = Baja California Peninsula

Turkey = Florida

Italy = Yucatan Peninsula

Greece = Mississipi River Delta

Borneo = Baffin Island

New Guinea = Ellesmere Island

Japan = Victoria + Banks Islands

Philippines = Sverdrup Islands

Sumatra = Newfoundland

Sicily + Sardinia + Corsica = Cuba + Hispaniola + Jamaica

Strait of Gibraltar = Panama Canal

Tyrrhenian Sea = Caribbean sea

Adriatic Sea = Gulf of Mexico

Baltic Sea = Gulf of California

...

Here are a few curiosities (when you rotate the "hemisphere"):

1) Washington DC can be found in Iran!

2) In this map the term "American-Indians" would be justified...rather than an explorer's mistake :)

3) "Afro-americans" could be the Africans living in Brazil...rather than in the US

4)...

A planisphere formed by infinite micro planispheres

Julia-Mandelbrot Projection

Some interesting coincidental areas:

Australia:

Iceland

Newfoundland

Peloponnese

Tasmania

Kyushu...

Americas:

Mexico + Central America

S America in the N Hemisphere

Tierra del Fuego

S Africa

France + Spain

Scotland

Norway 

Western Asia

Hokkaido

Western Australia

Queensland

Te Ika-a-Māui (N Island - New Zealand)...

Africa:

Florida

Italy

Ireland

Sweden

India (Madagascar=Ceylon)

S Australia...

Asia:

Labrador Peninsula

Washington + Oregon + Idaho + Nevada + California

Nordeste (Brazil)

Horn of Africa

Angola

E Europe

England

Finland

European Russia

China

Honshu

New S Wales + Victoria...

Some fixed points on Fractaland where the areas on the micro-world-maps correspond to the areas on the macro-world-map

This map was created using the dynamics of a three-dimensional sphere that has been opened to form a two dimensional flat surface.

I started by drawing the coastlines directly onto the sphere. In some places I left the coastlines as they were because they already fit together perfectly (a famous example of this is the match between the coastlines of Africa and South America). In other places I had to somewhat force these matches. 

On my finished map, when the sphere is closed and complete, all of the continents fit together perfectly, like pieces of a puzzle. There aren’t any gaps between them and there aren’t any oceans. The Hadean Eon geological period proto-Earth was probably much like this. 

When I cut along my coastlines and opened the sphere, the continents fanned out into a position similar to that of an Azimuthal map projection. The gaps that were generated between the continents had a total area comparable with that of the present-day oceans. The resulting surface, however, still had bulges so I decided to cut along the principal rivers in order to flatten the two dimensional map. As I "opened up" the valleys, I was surprised to see the formation of mountain chains.

This PangaeaHedron - Dimensional Drift map is still work in progress. My intention is to create a sphere or multi-faceted polyhedron which can be easily opened and closed. I hope to show, in true Pataphysical style, continental drift theory and the formation of rivers and mountains in the transition from a three-dimensional solid form to a two-dimensional flat form. 

An Earth where the Seabed resembles the Continents

The Floor of the Oceans looks like the continents

New Zealand

Baltic+North sea (GT)

Mediterranean sea (AA)

United Kingdom (MW)

Mozambique Channel or Great African lakes (OM)

Australia 

Mediterranean sea (GT)

North Atlantic ocean (AA)

Greenland (MW)

Antarctic Sea Ice (OM)

Eurasia

Indian ocean (GT)

South-Est Pacific Ocean (AA)

North-Central America (MW)

Est Pacific (OM)

N America

S Atlantic Ocean (GT)

Indian Ocean (AA)

Eurasia (MW)

N Atlantic Ocean (OM)

S America

N Atlantic Ocean (GT)

W Pacific Ocean (AA)

Africa (MW)

S Atlantic Ocean (OM)

Africa

Pacific Ocean (GT)

Central Pacific Ocean (AA)

S America (MW)

W Pacific Ocean (OM)

Antarctica

Arctic Sea (GT)

Arctic sea (AA)

Antarctica (MW)

Indian Ocean (OM)

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Are you a 3D designer?  Video maker? D3.js expert?... If you like the idea of further developing these imaginary worlds , contact me!

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