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Folding Paper Globes

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Re: Folding Paper Globes

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Post by ClashTheBunny » Mon, Sep 23, 2019, 5:08 PM UTC

djhn wrote: post #12

quickthrower2 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the Waterman Butterfly https://xkcd.com/977/

Is there any code or published algorithm out there to transform a map into either of these?

D3 does this amazingly well: https://github.com/d3/d3-geo-projection/blob/master/README.m...

Re: Folding Paper Globes

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Post by wailashi » Mon, Sep 23, 2019, 6:01 PM UTC

This reminded me of another paper globe project, Le Paper Globe: http://joachimesque.com/globe/

Re: Folding Paper Globes

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Post by mncharity » Tue, Sep 24, 2019, 12:31 AM UTC

For other planets/moons, there's also [1].

[1] Planetary Icosahedrons http://solarviews.com/eng/ico.htm

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