Neat. For folks who are more comfortable with using the terminal than paying for things, I have used this python libraries to make isospheres from 360 photographs:
https://github.com/Teque5/pydymax
Folding Paper Globes
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#22Interesting idea, but are there any photos of the assembled globes anywhere? I’m on mobile but I can’t seem to find an example on the site.
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#23Maybe I'm overlooking, but would love if this had an accurate political globe (e.g., countries and capitals) for my young kids.
Borders are a nightmare because many countries have contested areas and ask everyone inside the country to use the official one, specialy at schools.
Too late to edit: As a sibling comment says, in the top of the site they offer an option to make a version with only the borders. I don't see an option to combine satellite photos and borders anyway.
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#24very cool. as someone not familiar with this I would love to see how they look when folded
That they don't show how they look when folded is either bizarre, or that the end results are disappointing.
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#25it's a good idea, but it uses the distorted Mercator projection, and then cuts it so that you can glue it back into a somewhat globe-like shape. it's distorted, twice.
Are you sure? Greenland looks quite small and in https://foldingglobes.com/ there is an option to print the borders with parallels and meridians and they are split and curved.
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#26Flexify (http://www.flamingpear.com/flexify-2.html) is an incredible decades-old Photoshop plugin for making these. I made a mobile for a grade school math project using Flexify and NASA's equirectangular planetary maps, turning Mercury into a tetrahedron, Venus a pentahedron, etc.
The gallery of output projections is neat: http://www.flamingpear.com/flexify-output-modes.html
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#27Found some imagery:
https://mapscaping.com/diy-folding-paper-globe/
Not same source but related:
https://goodwoodglobes.com/guide/folding-globe
https://lyncean.education/projects/astronomy/polyhedral-glob...
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#28Neat. For folks who are more comfortable with using the terminal than paying for things, I have used this python libraries to make isospheres from 360 photographs: https://github.com/Teque5/pydymax
That sounds really cool, can you expand a bit on the workflow you used: what format were the 360 pictures in and how did you convert that into data that this Python library uses ?
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#29Maybe I'm overlooking, but would love if this had an accurate political globe (e.g., countries and capitals) for my young kids.
"or with your own pinned places via the custom globe builder." Right there at the top of the page with a link even: https://foldingglobes.com/ In fact, it looks like the default landing page for the site. TFA looks to be a quick link to the free options
I hear you, but I'm suggesting a preconfigured one like the others that are linked here.
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#30Flexify ( http://www.flamingpear.com/flexify-2.html ) is an incredible decades-old Photoshop plugin for making these. I made a mobile for a grade school math project using Flexify and NASA's equirectangular planetary maps, turning Mercury into a tetrahedron, Venus a pentahedron, etc. The gallery of output projections is neat: http://www.flamingpear.com/flexify-output-modes.html
The author of Flexify is