Explore: Surface Distortion

sphere on a plane necessarily distort the surface in some way. Depending on the purpose of the map, some distortions are acceptable and others are not; therefore

distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map. Many techniques

induce partial spinel-to-layered transformation on the surface region. The distortion of the surface structure can be extended to the bulk level. Since layered

the distortion are not corrected. Astigmatic, distorted surfaces potentially introduce serious degradations in optical system performance. Surface distortion

axis so that a camera pointing directly at a flat surface reproduces that flat surface. Distortion can be thought of as stretching the image non-uniformly

from different locations; observing the Sun; surface navigation; grid distortion on a spherical surface; weather systems; gravity; and modern technology

indicatrix (Tissot indicatrix, Tissot's ellipse, Tissot ellipse, ellipse of distortion) (plural: "Tissot's indicatrices") is a mathematical contrivance presented

curving surface. This allows a x, y, z coordinate system of the surface to be generated from a single image which has been overlaid with the distortion pattern

Earth's surface onto the unfolded net of an icosahedron. The resulting map is heavily interrupted in order to reduce shape and size distortion compared

distortion takes two forms: extension distortion and compression distortion, also called wide-angle distortion and long-lens or telephoto distortion,