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Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections

58 points by vulkd 6y ago

Kaibeezy 6y ago
Buckminster Fuller, Dymaxion map https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map
- kilroy_jones 6y ago
  I came here to comment this exact thing. I was fascinated by Fuller as a teenager.
undershirt 6y ago
Seeing this—every map projection approximated as idealized orange peels—did something to me when I saw it in 2008. I can’t quite remember the feeling, but it was similar to how I felt after watching Inventing on Principle—the authors as toiling metaphysicists, returning from the mountain with gifts for physicists. I think another author was similarly affected, creating a nice web version on its 10th anniversary: https://medium.com/vis-gl/unfolding-the-earth-myriahedral-projections-in-webgl-6b2bcfd00a30 https://medium.com/vis-gl/unfolding-the-earth-myriahedral-pr...
- jansan 6y ago
  That WebGL visualization is really nice.
- vulkd 6y ago
  Thanks, I'm having so much fun with this. It's been great sharing it with friends, too.
jazzyjackson 6y ago
This is one of my favorite subjects so I wanted to figure out why the video wouldn't play on my iphone, I ran the file through these ffmpeg options [1] that I saw here on HN and want to keep sharing the fix to self-hosted videos that don't play -- but this web page dates from 2008 according to archive.org so I doubt it will get updated with an iphone compatible mp4, anyway my mp4 reupload is here [2] is you want to see the video on iphone, let me know if it works for you. Also the link to "The website of Carlos Furuti gives much information on map projection" is dead but was saved by archive.org [3], and finally I'll share my own blog where I sketched a dymaxion onto an icosohedron, really fun project. [4] [1] https://gist.github.com/ingramchen/e2af352bf8b40bb88890fba4f47eccd0 https://gist.github.com/ingramchen/e2af352bf8b40bb88890fba4f... [2] https://coltenj.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/myria-1.mp4 https://coltenj.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/myria-1.mp4 [3] https://web.archive.org/web/20080524072130/http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/Normal/TOC/cartTOC.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080524072130/http://www.progon... [4] https://coltenj.com/?p=235 https://coltenj.com/?p=235
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voldacar 6y ago
Very cool! At first I thought it was going to be something like the Waterman butterfly, but it quickly went way beyond that.
jansan 6y ago
Some of these maps have to be printed out and put on a wall. Can I purchase posters of them or are high quality images available?

58 points by vulkd 6y ago

Buckminster Fuller, Dymaxion map https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map

kilroy_jones 6y ago
I came here to comment this exact thing. I was fascinated by Fuller as a teenager.

undershirt 6y ago

Seeing this—every map projection approximated as idealized orange peels—did something to me when I saw it in 2008. I can’t quite remember the feeling, but it was similar to how I felt after watching Inventing on Principle—the authors as toiling metaphysicists, returning from the mountain with gifts for physicists. I think another author was similarly affected, creating a nice web version on its 10th anniversary: https://medium.com/vis-gl/unfolding-the-earth-myriahedral-projections-in-webgl-6b2bcfd00a30 https://medium.com/vis-gl/unfolding-the-earth-myriahedral-pr...

jansan 6y ago
That WebGL visualization is really nice.
vulkd 6y ago
Thanks, I'm having so much fun with this. It's been great sharing it with friends, too.

jazzyjackson 6y ago

This is one of my favorite subjects so I wanted to figure out why the video wouldn't play on my iphone, I ran the file through these ffmpeg options [1] that I saw here on HN and want to keep sharing the fix to self-hosted videos that don't play -- but this web page dates from 2008 according to archive.org so I doubt it will get updated with an iphone compatible mp4, anyway my mp4 reupload is here [2] is you want to see the video on iphone, let me know if it works for you. Also the link to "The website of Carlos Furuti gives much information on map projection" is dead but was saved by archive.org [3], and finally I'll share my own blog where I sketched a dymaxion onto an icosohedron, really fun project. [4] [1] https://gist.github.com/ingramchen/e2af352bf8b40bb88890fba4f47eccd0 https://gist.github.com/ingramchen/e2af352bf8b40bb88890fba4f... [2] https://coltenj.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/myria-1.mp4 https://coltenj.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/myria-1.mp4 [3] https://web.archive.org/web/20080524072130/http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/Normal/TOC/cartTOC.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080524072130/http://www.progon... [4] https://coltenj.com/?p=235 https://coltenj.com/?p=235

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voldacar 6y ago

Very cool! At first I thought it was going to be something like the Waterman butterfly, but it quickly went way beyond that.

jansan 6y ago

Some of these maps have to be printed out and put on a wall. Can I purchase posters of them or are high quality images available?