Video: Real world map from a Japanese designer
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
Used for centuries to create maps, the Mercator projection is notoriously imprecise. But the new AuthaGraph projection, invented by Hajime Narukawa of Japan, helps to create the most proportional world map you've ever seen.
On the world map, created using the old Mercator projection, familiar to us, Greenland seems several times larger than Australia. In fact, Greenland is three times smaller than Australia.
The map in the AuthaGraph projection is really innovative due to the fact that when the image is transferred from the globe to the map, the proportions of land and water remain unchanged.
It was this fact that helped its creator win the coveted Japanese Good Design Award.
The method that Hajime Narukawa came up with involves dividing a spherical surface into 96 triangles …
… successively turning into tetrahedrons and rectangles.
Of course, such a map is not absolutely perfect, but it is very close to it.
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