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{{Short description|Polyhedral conformal map projection}} [[File:Lee Conformal World in a Tetrahedron projection.png|300px|thumb|Lee conformal tetrahedric projection of the world centered on the south pole.]] ...

...tance is considerable in the edges.<ref name=Snyder>{{cite book |title=Map Projections: A Reference Manual |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vTLAqGTAc8cC&q= ...ections of the sphere onto the disk are not unique, unlike [[Conformal map|conformal maps]] which follow the [[Riemann mapping theorem]]. ...

...y. It belongs to the [[polyconic projection class]], which consists of map projections whose [[Circle of latitude|parallels]] are non-[[concentric]] circular [[Ci ...h these days, having been replaced by [[Map projection#Conformal|conformal projections]] in the [[State Plane Coordinate System]]. ...

{{Short description|Type of conformal map projection}} ...nisphere projection''' or the '''azimuthal conformal projection''', is a [[conformal map projection]] whose use dates back to antiquity. Like the [[orthographic ...

...map.<ref name="Snyder">''Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections'', John P. Snyder, Chicago University Press, 1993, pp. 106–107, {{ISBN|0-22 ...first developed the projection, but it appeared with other new cylindrical projections in the 19th century, and regularly finds its way into textbooks, chiefly to ...

...the late 16th and early 17th century. It is neither [[Conformal projection|conformal]] nor [[equal-area projection|equal-area]] but instead offers a compromise * [[List of map projections]] ...

...either [[Equal-area projection|equal-area]] nor [[Map projection#Conformal|conformal]] but instead tries to balance the distortion inherent in any projection. * [[List of map projections]] ...

...e. It belongs to the [[polyconic projection class]], which consists of map projections whose parallels are non-concentric circular arcs except for the equator, wh | title = Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections ...

...1943 by [[Erwin Raisz]] (1893–1968) as part of a series of "orthoapsidal" projections, which are perspectives of the globe projected onto various surfaces.<ref n * [[List of map projections]] ...

...27 |doi=10.14714/CP59.245}}</ref> It is neither [[Map_projection#Conformal|conformal]] nor [[Map_projection#Equal-area|equal-area]], but a compromise between th ...g the Natural Earth projection was dissatisfaction with existing world map projections for displaying physical data." Further criteria follow, ending with "The id ...

...rves relative [[area]] measure between any and all map regions. Equivalent projections are widely used for thematic maps showing scenario distribution such as pop ...Egregium]], an equal-area projection cannot be [[conformal map projection|conformal]]. This implies that an equal-area projection inevitably distorts shapes. E ...

{{short description|Conformal mappings in complex analysis}} ...warz triangle function''' or '''Schwarz s-function''' is a function that [[conformal mapping|conformally maps]] the [[upper half plane]] to a triangle in the up ...

...ighbour interactions determined by the alignment or anti-alignment of spin projections along the <math>z</math> axis, as well as an external magnetic field perpen ...e arXiv |eprint=hep-th/9108028 |last1=Ginsparg |first1=Paul |title=Applied Conformal Field Theory |year=1988 }}</ref> ...

...NOTABLE|notable]]. Because there is no limit to the number of possible map projections,<ref name="SnyderFlattening"> | title=Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections ...

...popular Web Mercator projection, and currently does not support any other projections for display. ...epancy causes the projection to be slightly non-[[Conformal map projection|conformal]]. General lack of understanding that the Web Mercator differs from standar ...

...plex, multi-complex, and split-quaternionic variables and their associated conformal geometries], Ph.D. Thesis, [[Florida State University]] ...

The inverses of these two stereographic projections are maps from the complex plane to the sphere. The first inverse covers the ...res on an oriented surface are therefore in one-to-one correspondence with conformal classes of metrics on that surface. ...

...te = 2009-08-27 | page = 6}}The EEA recommends the Transverse Mercator for conformal pan-European mapping at scales larger than 1:500,000</ref> mapping systems, ...lane, then any analytic function <math>f(\zeta)</math> will define another conformal projection. Kruger's method involves seeking the specific <math>f(\zeta)</m ...

...le:Conformal map projection from globe to octahedron.png|thumb|upright=2|A conformal map projection of the globe onto an octahedron. Because the octahedron has ...iangles, for example projecting the sphere onto a triangle, hexagon, [[Lee conformal world in a tetrahedron|tetrahedron]], octahedron, or icosahedron.<ref>Adams ...

...:0">{{Citation |last1=Hadfield |first1=Hugo |title=Constrained Dynamics in Conformal and Projective Geometric Algebra |date=2020 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/ [[File:Projections of points, lines, and planes.png|thumb|393x393px|The orange objects here ar ...