Proportionally Accurate World Map

Oleh Henry Parker May 01, 2020 Post a Comment

Proportionally accurate world map

Think about a map of the world. But a new map called authagraph created by tokyo based artist and architect hajime narukawa just won japan s distinguished good design award for accurately representing the relative sizes of. The authagraph world map designed by tokyo architect hajime narukawa is so proportionally accurate it can be folded into a 3 d globe.

This Bizarre World Map Is So Crazily Accurate It Actually Folds Into A Globe

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Flat proportionally accurate world map. Narukawa s authagraph world map which he unveiled in 2016 won the coveted grand award of japan s good design award competition beating out over 1 000 entries in a variety of categories. His map overcame 2d distortions by angling continents in a way that accurately displays both their relative sizes and the distances between them.

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He claims the above map called the authagraph world map achieves this task. Japanese architect hajime narukawa invented this projection in 1999 by equally dividing a spherical surface into 96 triangles. He divided the world into 96 different sections and then printed them onto an inflated tetrahedron.

The image you re picturing will most likely resemble the mercator projection a 2d representation of the globe created in the 1500s which most maps you commonly.