To plan a map of the world is no easy task . Because single-valued function represent the spherical Earth in 2D grade , they can not facilitate butbe distorted , which is why Greenland and Antarctica commonly front far more mammoth than they really are , while Africa look vastly smaller than its true size . The AuthaGraph World Map tries to correct these issues , establish the world nigher to how it actually is in all its spherical glory .
make by Hajime Narukawa at Keio University ’s Graduate School of Media and Governance in Tokyo , the design just win the grand trophy from Japan’sGood Design AwardasSpoon & Tamagoreports . It beat out over 1000 entree in a change of family .
Unlike the Mercator ejection , the1569 mapping techniquethat you ’d likely recognize from the reality maps you saw in shoal , the continents on the AuthaGraph are n’t lined up straight across — they’re angled in a way that allow for a more precise representation of the distance between them . “ AuthaGraph faithfully lay out all ocean [ and ] Continent , including the pretermit Antarctica , ” grant to the Good Design Awards , and put up “ an advanced accurate perspective of our major planet . ” No longer does Africa look the same size as North America , or Antarctica look like one of the biggest continent ( it ’s smaller than everything but Europe and Australia ) .
The map — which is used in Japanese textbooks — can be primed into unlike shapes without losing its accuracy , and AuthaGraphsellspaper fabrication kits where you’re able to fold it from a sphere to a cone to a flat single-valued function , mimic the way the ejection itself is made .
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