Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections

February 2, 2009 8:23 PM

Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections
posted by pita (6 comments total)

Buckminster Fuller and his Dymaxion map
posted by hortense at 8:45 PM on February 2, 2009

It is still impossible to project the globe onto a 2d surface that maintains both shape and equal area.

That said, this video is quite cool, it looks as if they took the individual projections from a Universal Transverse Mercator and animated them.
posted by schyler523 at 8:49 PM on February 2, 2009

I wonder how Ron Popeil would slice the world...

Previously.

Seriously, this was very interesting, and a unique addition. The video animation was definitely worthwhile.
posted by Tube at 1:39 AM on February 3, 2009

Awesome. Minimum spanning trees FTW!
posted by erniepan at 2:10 PM on February 3, 2009

I am so showing this to my students tomorrow.
posted by tits mcgee at 4:56 PM on February 3, 2009

I'd love to see this combined with Mike Migurski's slippy fauxmaxion interactivity!
posted by otherthings_ at 10:43 PM on February 3, 2009