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Which projection casts rays from a point on the surface of the globe to a cylinder?
What is the name of a map projection that casts rays from a point on the surface of the globe to a cylinder?
Some people who make sundials put a map of Earth on the sundial.
I want to use the "right" ...
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Does the Chamberlin trimetric projection map (some) great circles to straight lines?
I know that, in general, the Chamberlin trimetric projection maps most great circles on the sphere to some sort of non-straight curve on the flat map.
But what about the 3 special great circles ...
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Real-world example of Affine Transform?
From the Wikipedia article:
In geometry, an affine transformation or affine map or an affinity (from the Latin, affinis, "connected with") between two vector spaces (strictly speaking, two affine ...
