projections

Part amusement and part learning exercise, the “asymmetric monstrosity” by Daniel Huffman is…

Leading up to the NCAA Men’s basketball tournament, the Athletic has a bracket…

This clever chart by Lazaro Gamio shows changing interest rates set by the…

It’s been a while since we got our regular reminder that the Mercator…

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal can see the future.…

We’ve seen faces as map projections before, but this is 63 projections on…

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FLOW is an interactive art installation by Maotik that represents real-time…

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We’ve seen many one-off projects that show the distortions you get…

Most of us have seen the True Size of Africa graphic that squishes…

Most people, at least those who visit sites like FlowingData, know about map…

Projection mapping is the art of using physical objects as display surfaces and…

A Globe Hack and Good Old Mercator. An illustration of the Mercator map projection using pennies. There’s some distortion.

A collection by Jason Davies of the map projections possible with D3

Slick demo showing what projections preserve and lose

“a trade between distortion, accuracy, and aesthetics” [via]