#fuller projection

[aurianneor]

What world do we live in?

ESRI - Making a Meaningful Map: http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0911/making-a-map-meaningful.html

Map projection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection

Flag of the United Nations: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_Nations

Boston public schools map switch aims to amend 500 years of distortion (the video is quite fun): https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/mar/19/boston-public-schools-world-map-mercator-peters-projection

To order one of the “planisphères renversantes” from an over-passionate anti-imperialist: http://les-volets-jaunes.org/planispheres-renversantes/envoi-postal

For the article in French, click here: https://aurianneor.tumblr.com/post/167486249545/dans-quel-monde-vivons-nous-esri-making-a

Retournons-nous: https://aurianneor.tumblr.com/post/185834980780/retournons-nous-retournez-vous-et-prenez-une

Turn: https://aurianneor.tumblr.com/post/185904858185/turn-look-back-and-take-a-picture-of-the-earth

[mapsontheweb]

Fuller projection map showing the size of countries

[ptolemio-blog]

DYMAXION QUILT Searching for a mappy Christmas gift? What about this beautiful quilt by Haptic Lab with a Fuller Projection map on it? 

Go get it at https://www.hapticlab.com/collections/new/products/dymaxion-quilt (for $289).

[abstructures]

Recolored, transparent dymaxion projection.

[hawaiian-punch-glam]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the Fuller Projection Peirce quincuncial projection?

This map presents a world that is nearly contiguous and at accurate sizes and shapes to the continents. And there is no “correct” orientation for it (the directionality of north/south being arbitrary after all )

The downsides are that it cuts up Antarctica and distorts the size of oceans, which is bad news for sailors and penguin researchers, but for geography in general it’s AWESOME

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Edit: so I found out that this is actually the Peirce quincuncial projection. This is the Fuller Projection.

[wolfgasm]

[bhavalshahbell-blog]

Three Views of the World

[bhavalshahbell-blog]

The Fuller Projection, or Dymaxion Map, solves the age-old problem of displaying spherical data on a flat surface using a low-distortion transformation. The map also shows the world's land masses without interruption -- the map's sinuses do not cut into the land area at any point. Click on the title if you want to find out more.