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 w

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...