{"id":69,"date":"2009-04-30T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2009-04-30T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T20:06:00","slug":"interesting-ways-of-unfolding-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/interesting-ways-of-unfolding-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting ways of unfolding the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"324\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/b1xXTi1nFCo&#038;hl=es&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/b1xXTi1nFCo&#038;hl=es&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"324\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>How can we unfold the Earth? Making a map of the earth is an ancient problem. For thousands of years cartographers, mathematicians, and inventors have developed methods to flatten the curved surface of the earth into a 2D plane.<br \/>Visualization professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.win.tue.nl\/~vanwijk\/\"target=\"_blank\">Jack van Wijk<\/a> developed a new method of unfolding the earth: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.win.tue.nl\/~vanwijk\/myriahedral\/#paper\"target=\"_blank\">Myriahedral projections<\/a>. The video below shows ten variations, which tend to get stranger and stranger.<br \/>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextnature.net\/?p=3381\"target=\"_blank\">Next Nature<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can we unfold the Earth? Making a map of the earth is an ancient problem. For thousands of years cartographers, mathematicians, and inventors have developed methods to flatten the curved surface of the earth into a 2D plane.Visualization professor Jack van Wijk developed a new method of unfolding the earth: Myriahedral projections. The video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-and-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blauvent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}