Have you ever looked at a world map and wondered why some countries seem much larger than others, even though that doesn't match the real world? Well, that’s because the map you're used to is likely ...

Unlike other flat maps, ... In 1943, the American architect Richard Buckminster Fuller drew outlines of regular shapes that made up a world map, ...

I have always loved geometrical things. As a kid I was fascinated by map projections. When I was 14, I made a painted globe of Mars based on a flat Mercator Mars map by the astronomer E. M. Antoniadi.

Here's why flat world maps always have distortions. ... "Every world map is distorted in some respect," Matthew Edney, ... they are by no means the right shape. This distortion is, ...

But if you want a better idea of the relative size of the world’s landmasses, you need a map that distorts shape but preserves area, like the Peters projection does. Mercator’s original 1569 ...

Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map. It's certainly not a small island: It's about ...

After the Minecraft Spring to Life game drop, Mojang has already released a Minecraft beta and preview 1.21.80.22 for Bedrock Edition. In this preview version, the developers added new flat world ...

Researchers introduced a novel method for fabricating functional flat-to-shape objects using a computer-controlled sewing machine. The team's method uses the sewing machine to stitch pockets ...

In a recent paper, Gott began considering “envelope polyhedra,” with regular shapes glued together back-to-back, which led to the breakthrough idea for the double-sided map.. It can be displayed with ...

Astrophysicists have re-imaged our planet as a map that 'you can hold in your hand.' A team from Princeton University shared a new world map that is less distorted due it being two-sided and round ...

The Mercator projection, which is the most well-known map across the world, has a score of 8.396. Compared to the new map, which has a score of just 0.881, it is clear the new design is far less ...

There are a variety of ways of converting this 3D shape into 2D, which are referred to as map projections, but none of them are perfect. “We believe it is the most accurate flat map of Earth yet” ...