In cartography, a Tissot's indicatrix (Tissot indicatrix, Tissot's ellipse, Tissot ellipse, ellipse of distortion) (plural: "Tissot's indicatrices") is...
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showing the distortion inherent in a projection is to use Tissot's indicatrix. Nicolas Tissot noted that the scale factors at a point on a map projection...
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described of showing the distortion in projections. Like Tissot's indicatrix, the Goldberg-Gott indicatrix is based on infinitesimals, and depicts flexion and...
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analysis of the distortion that occurs on map projections. He devised Tissot's indicatrix, or distortion circle, which when plotted on a map will appear as...
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See also Interruption (map projection) Latitude Longitude Tissot's indicatrix Map projection of the tri-axial ellipsoid...
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(help)CS1 maint: postscript (link) Examples of Tissot's indicatrix. Some illustrations of the Tissot Indicatrix applied to a variety of projections other than...
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Indicatrix may refer to: Dupin indicatrix, a conic section which describes the local shape of a surface Tissot's indicatrix, which describes and visualizes...
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The Peirce quincuncial projection with Tissot's indicatrix of deformation....
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against their measures of distortion, producing minimal distance, Tissot indicatrix ellipticity and area errors, and the least skew of any of the projections...
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Tissot's indicatrix applied to the azimuthal equidistant projection...
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The Adams doubly periodic projection with Tissot's indicatrix of deformation....
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The Waterman projection with Tissot's indicatrix of deformation...
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north of 30°S. 15° graticule. The stereographic projection with Tissot's indicatrix of deformation. The stereographic is the only projection that maps...
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Equirectangular projection with Tissot's indicatrix of deformation and with the standard parallels lying on the equator...
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Fuller projection and Strebe's Dymaxion-like conformal projection with Tissot's indicatrices at 30° intervals A 1967 Jasper Johns painting, Map (Based...
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Equal Earth projection distortion, using the Tissot indicatrix at 10° intervals....
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The Kavrayskiy VII projection with Tissot's indicatrix of deformation...
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See also Interruption (map projection) Latitude Longitude Tissot's indicatrix Map projection of the tri-axial ellipsoid...
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The Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection with Tissot's indicatrix of deformation....
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See also Interruption (map projection) Latitude Longitude Tissot's indicatrix Map projection of the tri-axial ellipsoid...
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The Mollweide projection with Tissot's indicatrix of deformation...
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See also Interruption (map projection) Latitude Longitude Tissot's indicatrix Map projection of the tri-axial ellipsoid...
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The gnomonic projection with Tissot's indicatrix of deformation...
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convenient for areas in frequent communication to keep the same time. Tissot's indicatrix A mathematical contrivance used to illustrate the linear, angular...
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The Robinson projection with Tissot's indicatrix of deformation...
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The sinusoidal projection with Tissot's indicatrix of deformation...
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See also Interruption (map projection) Latitude Longitude Tissot's indicatrix Map projection of the tri-axial ellipsoid...
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The Lambert (standard parallel at 0°, normal) cylindrical equal-area projection with Tissot's indicatrix of deformation...
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the distribution of pixel density (which can be visualized with Tissot's indicatrix) is suboptimal, with the usually more important "equator" getting...
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See also Interruption (map projection) Latitude Longitude Tissot's indicatrix Map projection of the tri-axial ellipsoid...
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