Let and be the reverse lattices of filters for the sets and .
Then a funcoid from to consists of functions and such that
That is, for every filter on and every filter on , the filter (on ) generated by the union of and is not the entire power set iff the filter (on ) generated by the union of and is not the entire power set .
Funcoids are studied by Victor Porton, an independent researcher, as an approach to general topology, as a massive generalisation of proximity spaces, pretopological spaces, etc; no other mathematicians are known to work on them. Of the regular contributors to the Lab, Toby Bartels thinks that there might be something to it.