[HN Gopher] Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections (2008)
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       Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections (2008)
        
       Author : dredmorbius
       Score  : 48 points
       Date   : 2021-10-17 10:15 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | zokier wrote:
       | While interrupted maps are a clever hack to solve the projection
       | problem, I'm not convinced thst humans are particularly good at
       | interpreting them. In particular useful study would be how well
       | people are able to estimate sizes/lengths/angles of various
       | features
        
       | visitect wrote:
       | Professor Jack. What a gentleman. He's a friend of my graduate
       | lab PI and visited our scientific and information visualization-
       | focused lab in 2008. He made the rounds, quietly and attentively
       | listening to each of us demonstrate and discuss in-progress work.
       | I remember expressing some frustration that academic work in sci-
       | and infovis felt like to complete crapshoot with respect to
       | publication in "respected" journals (e.g. IEEE Vis, SIGGRAPH).
       | The community felt exceedingly subjective, particularly when
       | compared to other branches of computer science. I remember he
       | just smiled, said "May I?" reaching for the keyboard. He typed in
       | the address for this very page. Paraphrasing him: "I sent this
       | paper to all the typical Information Visualization conferences,
       | and they all rejected it. All of them. So I sent it instead to
       | the top cartographic journal in the world. It won best paper,"
       | said with a smile. This made a HUGE impression on me, and I
       | appreciated his sincerity, humor, and general infectiously
       | positive demeanor. More than any direct statement, this
       | demonstrated the importance of believing in your own good ideas,
       | even when others are quick to dismiss them. For Professor van
       | Wijk, this was just one of countless interactions with graduate
       | students from across the globe. But it certainly bettered me as a
       | person, and I will never forget it. Thanks, Professor, if you're
       | out there.
        
       | SiempreViernes wrote:
       | Whenever I get across this page I first get very impressed and
       | happy, and then I realise there's no code so I can't use this
       | method myself to make my own maps :(
        
         | undershirt wrote:
         | Nico Belmonte ported this to WebGL in 2018 for its 10th
         | birthday.
         | 
         | https://twitter.com/philogb/status/968530476259450881
        
           | SiempreViernes wrote:
           | Sure, but did he release the code as a repository?
           | 
           | I've seen that site before but I think all you get is
           | minified js, which isn't terribly helpful if you want to make
           | your own maps to unfold.
        
       | Animats wrote:
       | Mandatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/977/
        
       | Perceval wrote:
       | Ocean-centered projections are some of my favorite projections to
       | track down. Myriahedral, dymaxion, spilhaus, and one or two
       | others make for fine ocean-centered maps. Students have a new
       | perspective on Mahan's notion of seapower or Mackinder's "unity
       | of the ocean" when you show them one of those.
        
       | chmod775 wrote:
       | At this point it might be easier to relocate the entirety of
       | humanity to a ring world just so we don't have to deal with this.
        
         | rootbear wrote:
         | In Larry Niven's Ringworld, there were maps of various planets
         | in the ocean, including one of Earth. I always wondered what
         | projection they were in.
        
         | thehappypm wrote:
         | _Halo theme starts playing_
        
         | dredmorbius wrote:
         | Your task-difficulty estimation methods may be miscallibrated.
        
         | 7952 wrote:
         | We would quickly end up with zig zag maps.
        
       | AnthonBerg wrote:
       | Tanja Auerbach does wonderful prints from this kind of map
       | projection as Diagonal Press:
       | https://www.instagram.com/p/CG45Vnrgjmp/
        
         | SiempreViernes wrote:
         | Do you have a archived version of that? Instagram redirects me
         | to a login screen, I think you don't even get to view posts
         | these days without making an account.
        
           | AnthonBerg wrote:
           | Oh man, I didn't realise that :/
           | 
           | There's a website:
           | https://diagonalpress.com/products/interrupted-polyconic-
           | pro...
           | 
           | Feeling a bit spammy now. I swear I'm not affiliated. Just
           | saving up to buy their stuff, nose pressed against the window
           | :)
        
           | mkl wrote:
           | That's what I expected to see (no account here), but it
           | actually showed me the post, so apparently it still works for
           | some people. The maps are exactly the same as in the linked
           | article, just with a different (garish IMHO) colour scheme,
           | and not nearly as many different versions (there are some
           | other types of projection on the site AnthonBerg linked too).
        
           | detritus wrote:
           | If you're on Firefox, there's an add-on called 'Instagram
           | guest' that allows you to get around their annoying attempts
           | at lock-in.
        
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