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    In mapmaking, a quadrilateralized spherical cube, or quad sphere for short, is an equal-area polyhedral map projection and discrete global grid scheme...
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    certain quadrilaterals. Polyhedral map projections are useful for creating discrete global grids, as with the quadrilateralized spherical cube and Icosahedral...
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  • Thumbnail for Transverse Mercator projection
    reduced so that the cylinder slices through the model globe. Both exist in spherical and ellipsoidal versions. Both projections are conformal, so that the...
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    space-filling and honeycombs, polycubes, as well as cubes in compounds, spherical, and topological space. The cube was discovered in antiquity, associated with...
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    small circle of fixed radius (e.g., 15 degrees angular radius). Sometimes spherical triangles are used.[citation needed] In the first half of the 20th century...
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    of the sphere. Another alternative hierarchical grid is the Quadrilateralized Spherical Cube. The 12 "base resolution pixels" of H=4, K=3 HEALPix projection...
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    "Chapter 19. Image-Based Lighting". Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cube mapping. Quadrilateralized spherical cube Spherical image projection...
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    Latitude (redirect from Spherical latitude)
    latitude, as defined in this way for the sphere, is often termed the spherical latitude, to avoid ambiguity with the geodetic latitude and the auxiliary...
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  • Thumbnail for Gnomonic projection
    computer representation of spherical data, cube mapping is the gnomonic projection of the image sphere onto six faces of a cube. In mathematics, the space...
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    point the projection uniformly scales the image of a small portion of the spherical surface without otherwise distorting it, preserving angles between intersecting...
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    {X^{2}+Y^{2}}{4}}}}\,Y,-1+{\frac {X^{2}+Y^{2}}{2}}\right).\end{aligned}}} In spherical coordinates (ψ, θ) on the sphere (with ψ the colatitude and θ the longitude)...
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  • repraesentatione superficiei sphaericae super plano" [On the representation of spherical surfaces on a plane]. Acta Academiae Scientarum Imperialis Petropolitinae...
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  • Thumbnail for Craig retroazimuthal projection
    Briesemeister Eckert II Eckert IV Eckert VI Equal Earth Goode homolosine Hammer Lambert azimuthal equal-area Quadrilateralized spherical cube Strebe 1995...
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    Briesemeister Eckert II Eckert IV Eckert VI Equal Earth Goode homolosine Hammer Lambert azimuthal equal-area Quadrilateralized spherical cube Strebe 1995...
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    architect Hajime Narukawa in 1999. The map is made by equally dividing a spherical surface into 96 triangles, transferring it to a tetrahedron while maintaining...
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  • Thumbnail for Oblique Mercator projection
    reduced so that the cylinder slices through the model globe. Both exist in spherical and ellipsoidal versions. Both projections are conformal, so that the...
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  • Thumbnail for Azimuthal equidistant projection
    Briesemeister Eckert II Eckert IV Eckert VI Equal Earth Goode homolosine Hammer Lambert azimuthal equal-area Quadrilateralized spherical cube Strebe 1995...
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    on Earth or other spherical solar system bodies. In addition it is frequently used in panoramic photography to represent a spherical panoramic image. The...
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    the measure of distance on the ellipsoid surface as a function of the spherical coordinate system. Recall that the purpose of Tissot's indicatrix is to...
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    Briesemeister Eckert II Eckert IV Eckert VI Equal Earth Goode homolosine Hammer Lambert azimuthal equal-area Quadrilateralized spherical cube Strebe 1995...
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  • Thumbnail for Waterman butterfly projection
    homolosine HEALPix Perspective Polyhedral AuthaGraph Cahill Butterfly Cahill–Keyes M-shape Dymaxion ISEA Quadrilateralized spherical cube Waterman butterfly...
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  • Thumbnail for Robinson projection
    Briesemeister Eckert II Eckert IV Eckert VI Equal Earth Goode homolosine Hammer Lambert azimuthal equal-area Quadrilateralized spherical cube Strebe 1995...
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  • Thumbnail for Stereographic map projection
    addition, in its spherical form, the stereographic projection is the only map projection that renders all small circles as circles. The spherical form of the...
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  • Thumbnail for Werner projection
    Briesemeister Eckert II Eckert IV Eckert VI Equal Earth Goode homolosine Hammer Lambert azimuthal equal-area Quadrilateralized spherical cube Strebe 1995...
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  • Thumbnail for Gall–Peters projection
    Briesemeister Eckert II Eckert IV Eckert VI Equal Earth Goode homolosine Hammer Lambert azimuthal equal-area Quadrilateralized spherical cube Strebe 1995...
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  • grid Spatial index Grid plan Grid reference Geocode hex map quadrilateralized spherical cube Quadtree R-tree Alpha-numeric grid Utility pole#Coordinates...
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  • Thumbnail for Mollweide projection
    Briesemeister Eckert II Eckert IV Eckert VI Equal Earth Goode homolosine Hammer Lambert azimuthal equal-area Quadrilateralized spherical cube Strebe 1995...
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  • masses that may be displayed in various arrangements. 1973 Quadrilateralized spherical cube Polyhedral Equal-area F. Kenneth Chan, E. M. O'Neill 1943 Dymaxion...
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    mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and astronomer. Coordinates from a spherical datum can be transformed into Lambert conformal conic projection coordinates...
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    Briesemeister Eckert II Eckert IV Eckert VI Equal Earth Goode homolosine Hammer Lambert azimuthal equal-area Quadrilateralized spherical cube Strebe 1995...
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