I made this cake for my son's birthday yesterday:
I've come to the conclusion that early mapmakers did their jobs roughly the same way I did it. Start with the continent you know best (North America, in my case), and then warp the other continents slightly as space demands. Is it my fault Eurasia is so darned big? I think I was totally justified in making Florida bigger than the Indian subcontinent. Honestly, is it any worse than the old Mercator projections that made Greenland the size of Mars and cut Russia in half?
Oh, for my previous cake works, see
here,
here and
here. And for a wonderful discussion of maps and bias, see
this West Wing scene.
I've come to the conclusion that early mapmakers did their jobs roughly the same way I did it. Start with the continent you know best (North America, in my case), and then warp the other continents slightly as space demands. Is it my fault Eurasia is so darned big? I think I was totally justified in making Florida bigger than the Indian subcontinent. Honestly, is it any worse than the old Mercator projections that made Greenland the size of Mars and cut Russia in half?
4 comments:
You could TOTALLY play Risk on that cake.
Sounds like a good party game.
Is that the Chinese Wall there in white?
Actually, I was going for the peaks of the Himalayas.
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