By: arm's-length
From a different part of his Flickr stream, here's my favourite, for the clever and endearing way it relates the shape to its image.
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So I click the link expecting to be challenged and inspired by the mysteries of graphical projection, and I've ended up falling in love with a French kitchen...
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Reminds me of the artists doing body projections (NSFW): selfportrait.map series
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Przd also has an equally nice Flickr collection of foldable patterns, several of which recall the earlier, analogphoto-sculptures of Canadian artist Alain Paiement.
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Neat, but his subject matter seems to be biased towards the tropics (in earth-speak), with the high/low latitudes being filled with ceiling and carpet. The problem with earth projections seems to be...
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"I would probably have enough to upgrade to ArcGIS 10 etc. etc." Don't worry, I'm sure ArcGIS 10 is actually a downgrade, like all their other releases. I still need 3.2 to get certain tasks completed...
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Seconding the "dizzy" ... this one gave me an idea of what a friend was talking about when he described to me what it felt like to take peyote.
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Oh man, thanks. I love this. All my various inner nerds bow to my inner cartography nerd. If I only had a penny for every time I ruined a casual conversation by trying to explain the difference between...
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My takeaway from the world of projections link is that all map projections are horrible. Also, this West Wing clip probably belongs in here as well.
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One of my professors in college was working on this stuff. Apparently, there is quite a lively discussion in part of the mathematical community about what makes the "best" map, given that transforming...
View ArticleBy: Elmore
Wow. This is really really good stuff. This one is my favourite, even if that isn't the point of these at all.
View ArticleIn time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied
Cartography is the science of map-making. Seb Przd takes a photo and maps it out to build his own world of cartographical projections.
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