The Mercator Redemption

Year: 2013 Authors: Sebastien Pérez-Duarte; David Swart

Core claim

Mercator projection and complex logarithms enable artistic mapping, extreme zoom effects, and related conformal image transformations on spherical and planar content.

Topics

Mercator projection, conformal mapping, zooming imagery, Droste effect, spherical panoramas

Domains

cartography, complex analysis, conformal geometry, stereographic projection, digital photography, image transformation, visual art, panorama composition

Methods

projection composition, complex logarithm mapping, image cropping and tiling, conformal stretching

Media

digital panoramas, gigapixel images, spherical imagery, planar images

Source status

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