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29 de nov. de 2022 · Learn how a Japanese architect and artist created a map that preserves the true sizes and shapes of continents and oceans. The AuthaGraph projection is based on folding the globe into a pyramid and flattening it into a rectangle.
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Astrophysicist J. Richard Gott, along with colleagues David Goldberg and Robert Vanderbei, set out in 2019 to fix the inaccuracies and came up with a double-sided map that is similar to a vinyl...
1 de ago. de 2019 · Narukawa's AuthaGraph World Map, which he unveiled in 2016, won the coveted Grand Award of Japan's Good Design Award competition, beating out over 1,000 entries in a variety of categories. His map overcame 2D distortions by angling continents in a way that accurately displays both their relative sizes and the distances between them.
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15 de feb. de 2021 · The Winkel Tripel projection, chosen by the National Geographic for its world maps, represents the poles more accurately than the Mercator, but it still distorts Antarctica badly and creates the illusion that Japan is hugely to the east of California, instead of its nearest neighbor to the west.
17 de ago. de 2022 · AuthaGraph is a 2-D map that preserves the proportions of continents and oceans as they are on Earth. It was created by Hajime Narukawa, who won the 2016 Good Design Grand Award for his innovative mapping method.
17 de feb. de 2021 · A globe of the Earth would have an error score of 0.0. We found that the best previously known flat map projection for the globe is the Winkel tripel used by the National Geographic Society, with...
