Not sure what "canonical" means in this context. Half of algebraic geometry is called "canonical ring" or "fundamental class" or some other vacuous term. Please consider Elkies [The Klein Quartic in Number Theory](http://library.msri.org/books/Book35/files/elkies.pdf) and in general the book **The Eightfold Way** is online. In the translation of [Klein](http://library.msri.org/books/Book35/files/klein.pdf)'s original work we find this futuristic image: [![enter image description here][1]][1] Also in [German](https://eudml.org/journal/10142). The translated version has improved images [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/DRigf.png