This universe map only won Japan’s many prestigious pattern award
You can also squeeze a AuthaGraph World Map from Narukawa’s website, that is W841mm, H594mm, full tone and china imitation and accessible in both English and Japanese Although a map appears to give any land mass and seas a space it deserves, it still is not perfect. PHOTO: AUTHAGRAPH
The normal map of a world, famous as a Mercator map, is a many generally supposed picture of a planet but it is also deliberate rarely inaccurate.
Gerardus Mercator combined a normal map though many trust it shows Antarctica and Greenland as severely distorted. However, now a Japanese designer and artist, Hajime Narukawa, has been awarded Japan’s prestigious Good Design Award for conceptualizing a some-more accurate map of a world.
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To give a some-more accurate depiction of a world, Narukawa combined a opposite process that aims to uncover land areas and seas accurately sized. “This rectilinear universe map called AuthaGraph World Map is done by equally dividing a round aspect into 96 triangles, transferring it to a tetrahedron while progressing areas proportions and maturation it to be a rectangle,” Narukawa common on his website AuthaGraph.
“The universe map can be tiled in any instruction but manifest seams. From this map-tiling, a new universe map with triangular, rectilinear or parallelogram’s outline can be framed out with several regions during a center.”
Narukawa told Spoon-Tamago that only a few years ago this map would not be so precise. This is since of meridian change that has led to a melting of glaciers in Greenland and also due to territorial sea claims that have altered a world’s surface.
The map, that is W841mm, H594mm can be purchased online from AuthaGraph. It comes in full colour as good as china imitation and is accessible in both English and Japanese. People can also imitation out and overlay a map to emanate their possess proportional paper globe.
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Narukawa combined a opposite process that aims to emanate a map where all a land areas and seas are accurately sized. PHOTO: AUTHAGRAPH
What differentiates this map from a one widely used currently is that it depicts a distance of land some-more accurately. For example, in a Mercator projection, North America looks during slightest as big, if not somewhat larger, than Africa and Greenland also looks of allied size. But in existence Africa is incomparable than both. In fact, we can fit North America into Africa and still have space for India, Argentina, Tunisia and some left over.
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Greenland, meanwhile, is 1/14th a distance of a continent as can be seen in Gall-Peters equal projection, that provides a scold suit of land mass to a continents. The map suggests that Scandinavian countries are incomparable than India, since in existence India is 3 times a distance of all Scandinavian countries put together.
Although Authagraph map appears to give any land mass and seas a space it deserves, it still is not perfect. “The map need a serve step to boost a series of resolution for improving a correctness to be strictly called an area-equal map,” a Good Design Award outline reads.
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