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World map rendered using the plot package:
nice! Next, some cylinder projections?
Is this a “projection” though? I thought that a proper projection would distort the shape more than what’s shown here.
It is a projection, and the great thing about it is that it does not distort things (too much). I used the plots to validate a package I wrote: https://github.com/alex-hhh/geoid/wiki, which is inspired by the google S2 library
I would have thought the equator would be in the middle of the “vertical” planes.
Is it not?
Actually it could be, now that I really look. Us north americans have a lot of map biases :slightly_smiling_face:
Does this help?
Looking at it, I would have guessed the mid-line goes trough Togo, etc. Taking out a ruler, it shows that it is indeed lower and on the equator…
This is the entire thing unwrapped, the equator goes horizontally through faces 0 and 1 and vertically through faces 3 and 4