World Warp

How it works

The world in the Equal Earth projection, printed on a sheet of fabric in 3D space, the rubber-sheet picture of gravity. Drop a mass and the sheet sinks into a well, dragging continents and the latitude and longitude grid in towards it.

The masses pull on each other too, so two or more fall into orbit, sweeping their wells across the oceans, and merge when they collide. It’s the same engine as Tube Warp, with the world as its artwork.