A globe on a two-dimensional screen seems pretty dull compared to map projections that look like armadillos, butterflies, or deconstructed polygons. The azimuthal orthographic (as it's formally ...

By their calculations, the Mercator projection scores 8.296 and Winkel Tripel does better at 4.563. Their own azimuthal equidistant double-sided projection, meanwhile, scores 0.881. “We believe ...

“For example, Mercators projection is true to scale only along the equator, and azimuthal projection is limited to convergence of the meridians at one pole at a time. Other known systems of ...

But on the azimuthal polar projection from the north, the southern hemisphere has been pulled into view on the page, with the consequence that Antarctica centrifuges into a doughnut around the ...

It turns out that another projection — the azimuthal equidistant projection – provides exactly what we want: It measures distance accurately from the center of the map. This is the version of ...

Known as a "planisphere," the map is aligned in a “north polar azimuthal projection,” meaning that the North Pole is at its center. When he published his work in a four-volume, geographic ...

But unlike the Mercator projection, Monte's map shows the world from directly above above the North Pole — a perspective now known as the north polar azimuthal projection. "The projection is ...

although designed after the introduction of the Mercator projection — the presentation most commonly used today — the nobleman elected for a polar azimuthal projection, which situates the ...