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Flexify ( 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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"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.
Try interrupted sinusoidal, ot will be less edgy. https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/interrupted-sinusoidal/ This is a beautiful site. Don't miss it if you haven't been there before
I made a custom projection once, that's a bit friendlier to fold and comes in one tile.
Has no rendered flaps, but you should get the idea where to place them.
Still somewhat stiff, but managed to actually build two of them, would recommend printing on heavy A3 sheets or bigger.
Anyone is welcome to iterate. There even is a todo list with obvious things to improve upon.
Maybe I'm overlooking, but would love if this had an accurate political globe (e.g., countries and capitals) for my young kids.
Paper maps communicated a lot of different information, not only things about roadways. It's like roadmaps are the only maps the common online digital maps cared to build digitally.
Their keys and icons were so much better.
Try interrupted sinusoidal, ot will be less edgy. https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/interrupted-sinusoidal/ This is a beautiful site. Don't miss it if you haven't been there before
https://observablehq.com/@mxfh/a-papercraft-friendly-world-m... I made a custom projection once, that's a bit friendlier to fold and comes in one tile. Has no rendered flaps, but you should get the idea where to place them. Still somewhat stiff, but managed to actually build two of them, would recommend printing on heavy A3 sheets or bigger. Anyone is welcome to iterate. There even is a todo list with obvious things…
The offset to prevent tears is a nice touch.
They could get 10% bigger globes out of the same sheet of paper by rotating the icosahedron a bit (14º)
> Meteorite Landings
There seem to be significantly more of those on the northern hemisphere. I wonder what might be the reason for that?
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https://observablehq.com/@mxfh/a-papercraft-friendly-world-m... I made a custom projection once, that's a bit friendlier to fold and comes in one tile. Has no rendered flaps, but you should get the idea where to place them. Still somewhat stiff, but managed to actually build two of them, would recommend printing on heavy A3 sheets or bigger. Anyone is welcome to iterate. There even is a todo list with obvious things…
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. I haven't looked at the pointed site yet but will do once I get some time on my hands. Maps end up nerd-sniping me. The offset to prevent tears is a nice touch.