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Au commencement, les yeux ne voient pas. Ils sont ouverts, entre les rideaux des paupières, mais ils sont noirs. Ils n'ont pas de lumière. Les yeux ne servent pas. Ils ne sont pas faits pour voir. Quand on a appris cela, on n'a plus peur de l'ombre et du vide. Les yeux sont des moteurs pour aller dans l'autre sens, vers le futur, vers les pays inconnus, vers les rêves, les choses de cette nature.

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

Image: T Cmask Dreams 17  

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The tides of Europe

by mydriase

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Many seas, only one ocean

by mydriase

I just completed this map from an inspiration of Chiara Phillips (see her website here) showing the world's ocean as one, with the Spilhaus projection. Hope you like this new perspective and data visualisation!  

More maps on my website if you feel like browsing and find more maps and articles :)  

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A map of Europe seen by a raindrop🌧️

by u/mydriase

So I made this map showing Europe divided in two: if a raindrop falls in Berlin, Toulouse, Warsaw or London, it will cross Northern Europe, flat terrain and mostly farmland and eventually end up in the waters of the great Atlantic Ocean, or in the North Sea and maybe in the Baltic Sea too.

On the other hand, the other half of Europe shows the area where raindrops will travel south, crossing a rugged terrain, more arid lands, to end in the Mediterranean Sea or the Black Sea too.

I was inspired by the map showing North America Great divide, between the watersheds ending in the Pacific Ocean and those ending in the Atlantic Ocean. I find it fascinating that you can cross the two ans that there’s a line going through thousands of kilometres that will determine where a raindrop will go.

Hope you liked it! More maps on my website for fellow map nerds

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France 20,000 years ago

by u/mydriase

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Our planet's economical 'centre of gravity'

by u/mydriase

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A map of population density on Java, Indonesia, the most populated island on earth

by u/mydriase

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Mt Taranaki, New Zealand - Rendered in 4 different ways

by u/mydriase