Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections

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内容简介:The method

For a quick impression of myriahedral projections, see thevideo. Two minutes, no audio.

Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections

For a detailed answer what these maps look like and how to generate them, see:

Jarke J. van Wijk. Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections .

The Cartographic Journal, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp.32-42, February 2008.

The article was awarded with the Henry Johns Award 2009 , run by the British Cartographic Society with the support of Lovell Johns, for the best Cartographic Journal article in 2008. The Cartographic Journal is published by Maney Publishing ( www.maney.co.uk ).

A story on myriahedral projections in New Scientist can be found here

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The method

  1. Project the globe on a myriahedron
  2. Label the edges as cuts or folds
  3. Unfold the globe

Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections

A myriahedron is a polyhedron with a very large number of faces. For this reason, we call the results myriahedral projections. In step 2 and 3, this myriahedron is cut open and unfolded. The resulting maps have a large number of interrupts, but are (almost) conformal and conserve areas.

Examples

Now, dependent on which mesh is used and which strategy for labeling the edges, different maps are obtained. First, one can cut along parallels or meridians. We call these graticular projections, since they are based on the graticule. The resulting images resemble familiar map projections.

Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections

Second, one can take a regular polyhedron, subdivide the faces, and fold it out.

Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections

One can take the shapes of the continents into account, when defining the cuts. By changing priorities, one can obtain maps where most cuts are through oceans or continents.

Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections

Traditional maps are often Euro-centric. Focussing on for instance Australia gives different results (thanks to David Mayes for this suggestion).

Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections

Contact

For more information, see theor contactJack van Wijk. All images copyright The British Cartographic Society 2008 and/or Jack van Wijk, TU/e.

Acknowledgements

I gratefully acknowledge Michiel Wijers, who has coined the term "myriahedral". I thank my colleagues, friends, and family for encouragement and advice, especially Jason Dykes and Menno-Jan Kraak. The website of Carlos Furuti gives much information on map projection. Flattening the Earth of John P. Snyder gives a great overview of the history of map projection.

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