Peirce quincuncial projection
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title:
Peirce quincuncial projection
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The Peirce quincuncial projection is the conformal map projection from the sphere to an unfolded square dihedron, developed by Charles Sanders Peirce in 1879. Each octant projects onto an isosceles right triangle, and these are arranged into a square. The name quincuncial refers to this arrangement: the north pole at the center and quarters of the south pole in the corners form a quincunx pattern like the pips on the five face of a traditional die. The projection has the distinctive property tha
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Conformal map projection
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce_quincuncial_projection
date created:
2006-10-30T14:07:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T20:20:49Z
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