Using Turtles and Skeletons to Display the Viewable Sphere

Year: 2009 Authors: David Swart

Core claim

A turtle-defined skeleton on the sphere and plane provides a versatile way to generate manufacturable projections of the viewable sphere.

Topics

sphere-to-plane projection, turtle language, Termesphere, panorama layout

Domains

cartographic projection, Voronoi regions, geometry on the sphere, great-circle distance, photographic assemblage, visual composition, paper construction, mathematical art

Methods

turtle graphics, skeleton mapping, paper cutout assembly, projection design

Media

photographs, paper, plastic ball, printed projections

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