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I've thought about trying to build an app that does what that animation on the Wikipedia page does [0], but I'm not sure where I'd find spherical (or near enoug
by nollidge 13y ago
I've thought about trying to build an app that does what that animation on the Wikipedia page does [0], but I'm not sure where I'd find spherical (or near enough) textures of the world map to experiment with.
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dymaxion_2003_animation_small1.gif http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dymaxion_2003_animation_sm...
- jre 13y agoYou could "unproject" another projection for which you have texture back to your sphere and then do the isocahedron projection. Also, maybe you can find a database of the countries border as lat/lng polygons and just draw the countries.
- sampo 13y agoNatural Earth has lots of that kind of databases: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/ http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/