Emeritus Prof Christopher May on Nostr: New view of the world: 'Tokyo-based architect & artist Hajime Narukawa won Japan's ...
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'
#politics
h/t Phillip Richardson/LinkedIn
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