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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...