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 ...

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 just extraordinary for that time ...

Their own azimuthal equidistant double-sided projection, meanwhile, scores 0.881. “We believe it is the most accurate flat map of Earth yet,” the trio write. It might technically be flat ...

This colorful and intricately detailed map from 1587 is more than ... modern cartographers call a polar azimuthal projection, a very unusual choice for his time. The projection became popular ...

Think ‘world map ... 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.