2020-12-27

Zamonien World Map

Zamonien is a fictional continent invented by Walter Moers as a setting for a series of adventure novels. For his book "Die 13½ Leben des Käpt'n Blaubär" he drew an entire world map with many other continents. I tried to match the projection of that map to google maps and also projected more detailed drawings of selected areas.

My purpose when I made this was to draw a geographically accurate map on a christmas card, so you can also overlay the map with a grid of squares that allows you to easily transfer it to paper.

Clicking on the image will take you to the map.

Zamonien World Map in Web-Mercator Projection.

2020-04-12

Timeline Creator

This is a tool I made to quickly create timelines of the lifespans of historical figures. I use it mainly to quickly throw together visualisations that help me immerse myself in history youtube videos.

Features:

  • Add a lifeline by searching for a name and selecting one of the results.
  • Reorder lifelines by dragging them with your mouse.
  • Put two non-overlapping lifelines on the same line by dragging one and then hovering your mouse pointer over another.
  • Remove a lifeline from a pairing by shift-clicking.
  • Move the entire timeline around by clicking and dragging on the background.
  • Zoom in or out with shift + scroll.

This uses the API from pantheon.world.
Click on the image to try it.

Timeline of German chancellors, US presidents, and some other historic figures.

2015-06-07

Sudoku - Solver

This is a sudoku solver I made based on a very simple SAT solver implemented in pure Javascript. You can click on one of the examples below to copy it into the big grid and click "solve" to find the solution. You can also input your own sudoku.


2015-05-29

Bézier Curves

Choose the degree of the Bézier polynomial and drag around the control points to see how the curve changes:

Curve degree: 3