[HN Gopher] Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections
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       Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections
        
       Author : hunter-2
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2021-02-26 11:46 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (philogb.github.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (philogb.github.io)
        
       | jpm_sd wrote:
       | This is absolutely gorgeous. Doesn't work on my mobile device but
       | well worth investigating on desktop. Fun for me since I used to
       | have a hobby of making various polyhedra with unit origami [1].
       | Apparently it's an update from this older site. [2]
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       | [1] https://www.amazon.com/Unit-Origami-Multidimensional-
       | Tomoko-...
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       | [2] https://www.win.tue.nl/~vanwijk/myriahedral/
        
       | anonisko wrote:
       | I love the poetry of lines spiraling out of Africa.
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       | A metaphor for the dispersion of our species.
        
       | enriquto wrote:
       | It's strangely missing the most common one (UTM zones).
        
       | alanbernstein wrote:
       | Amazing, I just finished writing a program to do the same thing,
       | with a smaller subset of polyhedra, specifically for printing or
       | CNC work. If I had found this a month ago I might have saved
       | myself hours.
        
         | samstave wrote:
         | Can I see anything you have printed/CNC'd?
        
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