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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

New view of the world:

'Tokyo-based architect & artist Hajime Narukawa won Japan's prestigious Good Design Award for developing the AuthaGraph World Map, a groundbreaking projection that preserves the true proportions of continents & oceans.

By dividing the globe into 96 triangles, then transferring these to a tetrahedron & unfolding it into a rectangle, the AuthaGraph map eliminates the distortions found in both the Mercator & Dymaxion maps'

h/t Phillip Richardson/LinkedIn

Map of the world, with accurate depiction of land areas, correcting for distortions from previous mapping conventions
Dec 31, 2024, 07:08 AM·Public·Web
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