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by quadibloc
Sat Jan 11, 2025 3:07 pm
Forum: Map projections
Topic: The Liquid Earth projection
Replies: 15
Views: 1266

Re: The Liquid Earth projection

saga wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 12:19 pm @quadliboc Thank you!

That link still doesn't work. Did you mean to post http://www.quadibloc.com/maps/images/conhem2.gif?
Oops, yes, that definitely is the diagram I wanted to point you to. But the other link, to the page, should have worked.
by quadibloc
Fri Jan 10, 2025 10:59 am
Forum: Map projections
Topic: The Liquid Earth projection
Replies: 15
Views: 1266

Re: The Liquid Earth projection

I am highly impressed by the Liquid Earth projection, as it is beautiful in appearance, showing the continents with very little distortion. Doing that, and also having the projection approximately equal-area is quite an achievement. I don't know enough about how to work with meshes to do anything li...
by quadibloc
Thu Jun 13, 2024 2:03 pm
Forum: Map projections
Topic: The Monarch Flour Mystery: Almost Solved
Replies: 4
Views: 607

Re: The Monarch Flour Mystery: Almost Solved

I am red-faced now! Because all the atlas maps in the Monarch World Atlas, except for one of Canada on a conic projection, were on the Mercator projection, I had simply assumed, all the way from childhood, that the world map was also on the Mercator projection. But just now, as I was taking a closer...
by quadibloc
Thu Jun 13, 2024 9:55 am
Forum: Map projections
Topic: The Monarch Flour Mystery: Almost Solved
Replies: 4
Views: 607

Re: The Monarch Flour Mystery: Almost Solved

How are the domes over Eurasia arranged? You can tell from the curvature of the meridians that the map won't work if you simpe glue the left edge to the right edge like you can for the cylindrical portion. Yes, you're right. On the left of the map, the dome has 100 degrees East longitude as its sta...
by quadibloc
Thu Jun 13, 2024 5:32 am
Forum: Map projections
Topic: The Monarch Flour Mystery: Almost Solved
Replies: 4
Views: 607

The Monarch Flour Mystery: Almost Solved

The Van der Grinten III projection is the one where the parallels are horizontal lines, at the positions the parallels of the original Van der Grinten projection intersect the central meridian. I have noted on my web page that the Van der Grinten projection, along with the Van der Grinten IV project...
by quadibloc
Wed Jun 12, 2024 7:31 am
Forum: Map projections
Topic: The Diomedian Antimeridian
Replies: 20
Views: 1336

Re: The Diomedian Antimeridian

If you can replace the Chinese government with a more benevolent one that's still ethnically Chinese, then you can do that with Russia, too. Unless you believe that Russians are all genetically-inferior subhumans who need to be rounded into concentration camps and gassed. Also, the United States ar...
by quadibloc
Wed Jun 12, 2024 1:20 am
Forum: Map projections
Topic: The Diomedian Antimeridian
Replies: 20
Views: 1336

Re: The Diomedian Antimeridian

If I were dictator of the world, I'd go for a global phase-out of fossil fuels to stop Siberia's land and resources making Russia a great power. This might have other benefits too. Taking Siberia away from Russia would just set the stage for a Russian war of reconquest. Oh, indeed, fossil fuels mus...
by quadibloc
Tue Jun 11, 2024 8:27 pm
Forum: Map projections
Topic: The Diomedian Antimeridian
Replies: 20
Views: 1336

Re: The Diomedian Antimeridian

Would you also give Korea Manchuria? It makes little sense to me to give them any part of Siberia without also giving them Manchuria, since that leads to a disconnected territory. If I wanted to give Sakhalin to someone that isn't Russia, Japan would make more sense. Well, Sakhalin was part of Japa...
by quadibloc
Tue Jun 11, 2024 3:40 pm
Forum: Map projections
Topic: Chalker Continental Composites
Replies: 106
Views: 4603

Re: Chalker Continental Composites

Incidentally, Copp Clark had both a map of Canada on the Simple Conic, and a map of the world on the Mercator Projection handy because they printed maps of these two types which adorned the walls of classrooms across Canada. Now, we've all heard of the deleterious effects of constant exposure to map...
by quadibloc
Tue Jun 11, 2024 2:11 pm
Forum: Map projections
Topic: Chalker Continental Composites
Replies: 106
Views: 4603

Re: Chalker Continental Composites

I think I actually saw that map with the birds in my recent web searches! (That is, not your drawing, but your inspiration.) Anyways, funny you mention the Baker dinomic. I ran across that recently, and it reminded me of the world map in the infamous Monarch Flour Atlas. This atlas was available in ...