The azimuthal orthographic is thousands of years old. In the first century, Ptolemy described how a geographer named Hipparchus used the projection, which he called the analemma, to map the globe.

The hunt for Earth-like planets is over: We found them on Flickr. In simple terms, a polar panoramic, or stereographic projection, is a way to map a sphere as a plane. We co ...

By their calculations, the Mercator projection scores 8.296 and Winkel Tripel does better at 4.563. Their own azimuthal equidistant double-sided projection, meanwhile, scores 0.881.

Photographer David Jackson uses a technique called stereographic projection to turn landscapes into mini planets. Stereographic projection is a form of digital processing that shows a 360-degree ...