The dymaxion projection works well for this too
And the Waterman Butterfly
Folding Paper Globes
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#13One of the most interesting thing with paper globes is that the object becomes very familiar with kids.
They understand it's inexpensive, won't shatter if they drop it so don't fear touching or moving it around, playing with it. They can participate in making, so it becomes more personal. And as there's no stand, it's easy to mess with the orientation. "upside-down" becomes arbitrary, even with text on it, you can discuss inclination, or how it can be seen from completely different perspectives.
It's a very nice object to have around.
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#14No example photos of the completed globes? Edit: found some examples on their blog: https://mapscaping.com/blogs/geo-candy/diy-folding-paper-glo...
What kind of shape does the second-to-last one make?
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#15The cubic earth made me laugh; I'm currently making a planetary terrain generator which uses a normalised cube to generate spherical terrain, so this was particularly close to home :)
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#16Am I the only one that would love to have an eInk globe that I can project arbitrary stuff on?
It's not eInk but a spherical screen already exists: https://pufferfishdisplays.com/solution/puffersphere/
https://vimeo.com/212582845 - a skippable version of their video. It's all animated, no real world footage.
Lots and lots of "real" videos of this display are marketing CGI renders, but here's the one from the actual trade show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGPvfHI-yCE
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not eInk but a spherical screen already exists: https://pufferfishdisplays.com/solution/puffersphere/
https://vimeo.com/212582845 - a skippable version of their video. It's all animated, no real world footage. Lots and lots of "real" videos of this display are marketing CGI renders, but here's the one from the actual trade show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGPvfHI-yCE
Weird that they don't trust it to actually display spherical data, and instead drenches it in a flat ticker showing logos...
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not eInk but a spherical screen already exists: https://pufferfishdisplays.com/solution/puffersphere/
https://vimeo.com/212582845 - a skippable version of their video. It's all animated, no real world footage. Lots and lots of "real" videos of this display are marketing CGI renders, but here's the one from the actual trade show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGPvfHI-yCE
My university had one in the science building and I played with it a bit. It was able to view various visualizations of data covering the globe (temperature I think might've been one, but I'm near positive weather was also available). They also had imagery of other planets loaded up, so you could spin Mars around to look at different spots.
It's not a very bright display; it is just a projector after all. That video plays pretty well to its strengths in a darker trade show, but in a bright atrium it's much harder to use. It's a little hard to describe, but the "viewing angle" isn't fantastic either. The surface is harder to see than I expected as it gets closer to being perpendicular to your eyes (yeah, obviously, but it seems to lose contrast/brightness or something).
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#19Cool, just a little heads up that the print saying "Copyright © MapScaping.com -all rights reserrved - not for sale" contains a spelling error.
Unless you are a pirate, sailing the foldable paper globes, reserved is spelled with 1 r :-)
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#20No example photos of the completed globes? Edit: found some examples on their blog: https://mapscaping.com/blogs/geo-candy/diy-folding-paper-glo...
What kind of shape does the second-to-last one make?
A spike ball: http://www.flamingpear.com/gallery65.html