The "shriveling_world" project aims at producing images of the global geographical time-space, using the third dimension, as in time-space relief maps. The word "shriveling" was introduced by Waldo Tobler in his comments of Mathis-L'Hostis time-space relief image, in order to describe the complex contraction process suggested by the model.
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A new model with varying altitude of cities / cone tips #155
Dear shriveling_world team and friends,
I find the time-space compression maps really intriguing, but one thing I always asked myself is: why are all cone-tops (i.e. 'entry points' to the discontinuous transport system) at the same height? Aren't some points/cities more important than others? If a peak in the "spiky world" stands for highest accessibility, wouldn't it be possible (and desirable) to combine the shriveling-world layout with, say, a gravitational accessibility model, in the sense that the 'mass' of a region (e.g. population) also determines the height of a cone?
Best regards,
Fabian Wenner
Dear shriveling_world team and friends, I find the time-space compression maps really intriguing, but one thing I always asked myself is: why are all cone-tops (i.e. 'entry points' to the discontinuous transport system) at the same height? Aren't some points/cities more important than others? If a peak in the "spiky world" stands for highest accessibility, wouldn't it be possible (and desirable) to combine the shriveling-world layout with, say, a gravitational accessibility model, in the sense that the 'mass' of a region (e.g. population) also determines the height of a cone? Best regards, Fabian Wenner
_Originally posted by @fwenner in https://github.com/theworldisnotflat/shriveling_world/discussions/152#discussioncomment-590035_