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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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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Map projection (redirect from Spherical projection)
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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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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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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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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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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homolosine HEALPix Perspective Polyhedral AuthaGraph Cahill Butterfly Cahill–Keyes M-shape Dymaxion ISEA Quadrilateralized spherical cube Waterman butterfly...
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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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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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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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