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Really cool visualization! Talking about visualizing Earth. Does anyone know of alternative visualizations/projections of Earth (other than globes and maps)?
by nico 7y ago
Really cool visualization!
Talking about visualizing Earth. Does anyone know of alternative visualizations/projections of Earth (other than globes and maps)?
For example, what would it look like if we could image Earth, entirely, from pole to pole, continuously, like a panoramic picture? (imagine the result as an impossibly wide picture that starts with one pole on the left and ends with the opposite pole on the right)
Thank you.
- gregsadetsky 7y agoI don't think that this is exactly what you're asking for, but you can explore most "standard" projections below (definitely try out the first link described below): - Take a look at [0], click "Earth" in the lower left corner, then try other projections (they appear as the "A", "CE", "E", etc. list). Drag the map around to set the projection's "center". The real time projection calculations are pretty amazing..! - Go to [1] and toggle all of the categories ("Wall Maps", "Maps of Hemispheres", etc.) by clicking them. The maps are not dynamic / cannot be dragged around (like [0]), but this is a more complete reference list (similar to Wikipedia's list of map projections [2]). The rest of the site is also absolutely incredible (I recommend taking ~1 hour to go through the whole list of projects one by one). [0] https://earth.nullschool.net/ https://earth.nullschool.net/ [1] http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?projectionref http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?projectionref [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections