I somehow don’t understand this fully but love it
For those who don’t know already, this is called a Voronoi diagram.
I think I’m too stupid to understand this. How are they straight lines and not at a diameter / in a circle from any given point? It seems… wrong.
What does the separating line between two circles look like?
More… circles?
I’ve tried to demonstrate it here. You end up with straight lines because it’s always a middle point so it doesn’t curve one way or another between the two points.
If the circles had a set radius then you’d have empty space and more circley-looking spots. But since they basically expand until there’s a middle point you’ll have these straight lines.
I was joking. But +1 for the effort and this looks like art, btw.
Oh dang didn’t realize you weren’t the same person. Thanks for the compliment, I had fun drawing it
Draw it, then consider where the exact middle point would be. Now do the whole line between them. I think that’s the best way to figure it out.
On this map, you can see why Denmark’s capital is Copenhagen. When Denmark controlled Scania and Schleswig-Holstein, it much more centrally located than today. The borders of Denmark in this map correspond roughly to the borders before the Treaty of Roskilde.
How did u make this
I don’t know how NaytaData made it, but if I were doing it, I would do something like this:
- start with a “blank” un-coloured map of coastline and country borders
- put all the “capital” cities on the map
- make a temporary grid of points over the map and find the closest city for each point
- paint the map based on those temporary grid points
I would use a computer but the same steps would work with paper & pen.
this i an amazingly informative rendering.
What about Edin, bruh?
I’d much rather be ruled by my closest capital.
Superb way to illustrate.
There’s something funky going on north of valleta
what if the uk colonised europe
Those borders don’t even line up with longitude and latitude! What is this, amateur hour‽
Vaduz? Did they just choose two cities for capital-less Switzerland?
No, that is the capital of Liechtenstein
Vaduz is the capital of Liechtenstein.
