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Using a human head to demonstrate map projections (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago

It's still a Mercator projection if you take any part of a map projected thusly. (And there's the "modified universal transverse Mercator" that, I think, is that with some grid offset.)

But, see my edit, this image isn't doing that. It's stretching a "picture of half a face superimposed on a larger half globe," not the half-face as if the head were the globe.

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