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If we're doing strangely discontinuous maps, I'd like to submit Fuller's Dymaxion Map [1] -- at least that one keeps the continents contiguous, while truly mini
by btbuildem 3y ago
If we're doing strangely discontinuous maps, I'd like to submit Fuller's Dymaxion Map [1] -- at least that one keeps the continents contiguous, while truly minimizing deformations.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map
- WorldMaker 3y agoThe Dymaxion projection came up in my own recent reading because one was sent in the "Cosmic Call": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Call https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Call The blog series I was reading: https://blog.plover.com/aliens/dd/intro.html https://blog.plover.com/aliens/dd/intro.html The Cosmic Call map was specifically pages 19-20: https://blog.plover.com/aliens/dd/p19.html https://blog.plover.com/aliens/dd/p19.html
- contravariant 3y agoIf strange discontinuities are not a problem, what about the Euler spiral? Okay in the limit it has no area, but if you see it as a limiting process of arbitrarily thin strips then the distortion goes to 0 as the width decreases.