Normally we’re projecting a sphere on to a cylinder, cone or some fancy polyhedron. Now what if we picked a more interesting shape such as a disc, cube, saddle, donut or a banana and project on to that instead. Is there a shape that maximizes distortions in all latitude and longitudes…
Normally we’re projecting a sphere on to a cylinder, cone or some fancy polyhedron. Now what if we picked a more interesting shape such as a disc, cube, saddle, donut or a banana and project on to that instead. Is there a shape that maximizes distortions in all latitude and longitudes…