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    The equirectangular projection (also called the equidistant cylindrical projection or la carte parallélogrammatique projection), and which includes the...
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    18 July 1953) in 1921. The projection is the arithmetic mean of the equirectangular projection and the Aitoff projection: The name tripel (German for...
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    meridian scale factor for the Equirectangular projection (h=1) and for the Lambert equal area projection. These last two projections have a parallel scale identical...
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    concluded using cartometric analysis that these charts used an equirectangular projection instead. In the 13th century, the earliest extant portolan charts...
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    the equirectangular projection, in that the globe is first rotated so the central meridian becomes the "equator", and then the normal equirectangular projection...
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  • representation, transmission, and display of 360° fields of view. An equirectangular projection simply maps the yaw and pitch (longitude and latitude) of a sphere...
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    vary, depending on which projection is used to map the surface of the Earth onto a plane. On an equirectangular projection, centered on the equator,...
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    Miller cylindrical projection (sec ⁠4/5⁠φ). North-south distances neither stretched nor compressed (1): equirectangular projection or "plate carrée"....
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  • This is a summary of map projections that have articles of their own on Wikipedia or that are otherwise notable. Because there is no limit to the number...
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  • camera support. 360-degree video is typically formatted in an equirectangular projection and is either monoscopic, with one image directed to both eyes...
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  • Thumbnail for Gall isographic projection
    isographic projection is a specific instance of equirectangular projection such that its standard parallels are north and south 45°. The projection is named...
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    known as the Babinet projection, homalographic projection, homolographic projection, and elliptical projection. The projection trades accuracy of angle...
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  • Winkel projections use the arithmetic mean of the equirectangular projection and other projections. There are several variants: the Winkel I projection uses...
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  • his geographical treatise however is lost. He also invented the equirectangular projection, which is still used in map creation today. A few of Marinus'...
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    The Werner projection is a pseudoconic equal-area map projection sometimes called the Stab-Werner or Stabius-Werner projection. Like other heart-shaped...
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    sphere; Lobachevsky coordinates are a cylindrical projection analogous to the equirectangular projection (longitude, latitude) of the sphere. If (x0, x1...
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  • seen from the south. Far left: northern solstice The globe on an equirectangular projection to show the amount of reflected sunlight at southern and northern...
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    sinusoidal projection is a pseudocylindrical equal-area map projection, sometimes called the Sanson–Flamsteed or the Mercator equal-area projection. Jean Cossin...
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    Historically the first projection, invented by Marinus of Tyre ca. AD 100 according to Ptolemy, was what is now called equirectangular projection (historically...
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  • conformal. The counterexamples are equirectangular and equal-area cylindrical projections (of normal aspects). These projections expand meridian-wise and parallel-wise...
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  • Thumbnail for Stereographic projection
    stereographic projection is a perspective projection of the sphere, through a specific point on the sphere (the pole or center of projection), onto a plane...
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  • Thumbnail for Azimuthal equidistant projection
    Azimuthal equidistant projection maps The azimuthal equidistant projection is an azimuthal map projection. It has the useful properties that all points...
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    IAU designated constellations in equirectangular projection (epoch B1875.0)...
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  • Thumbnail for Robinson projection
    The Robinson projection is a map projection of a world map that shows the entire world at once. It was specifically created in an attempt to find a good...
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    effect of the cordiform projection used by Waldseemüller, for when the map is laid out on a more familiar equirectangular projection and compared with others...
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    sphere, for example, the modeller might transform it into an equirectangular projection. Once the model is unwrapped, the artist can paint a texture on...
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    Goode homolosine projection (or interrupted Goode homolosine projection) is a pseudocylindrical, equal-area, composite map projection used for world maps...
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    sphere may then be projected to the plane with an equirectangular projection to give a double projection from the ellipsoid to the plane such that all meridians...
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    The Equal Earth map projection is an equal-area pseudocylindrical global map projection, invented by Bojan Šavrič, Bernhard Jenny, and Tom Patterson in...
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    The Dymaxion map projection, also called the Fuller projection, is a kind of polyhedral map projection of the Earth's surface onto the unfolded net of...
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