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Globe drawing


I’ve just finished the Globe wall drawing, tomorrow must be send to the printing place, this one will be 200x120cm.
Now starting to work on a new version, regading the global earth wind currents.

Interesting ways of unfolding the Earth

How can we unfold the Earth? Making a map of the earth is an ancient problem. For thousands of years cartographers, mathematicians, and inventors have developed methods to flatten the curved surface of the earth into a 2D plane.
Visualization professor Jack van Wijk developed a new method of unfolding the earth: Myriahedral projections. The video below shows ten variations, which tend to get stranger and stranger.
Via Next Nature.