#authagraph

Mercator come strumento di dominio occidentale

Veramente pochi sanno che quasi tutte le mappe del mondo – inclusa quella di GoogleMaps- non rappresentano le vere proporzioni dei continenti della Terra. Avrete sicuramente notato che la Groenlandia risulta essere immensa, grande quanto l’intera Africa. Lo stesso vale per il Canada, la Scandinavia e la Siberia. In realtà è una distorsione data dalla proiezione di Mercator, utilizzata con…

AuthaGraph a world map projection designed by Hajime Narukawa.

AuthaGraph Map

Authagraph is an equal-area type world map projection that was invented by Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa in 1999. While conceptually in the category of an equal-area projection, it would require further subdivision to qualify as an actual equal-area map.

The map keeps sizes of all continents and oceans while it reduces the distortions of their shapes like a Dymaxion map does. This map can be tiled in any direction without seams. The map projection tries to reflect an infinite perspective of the world.

Authagraph mapping projection was selected by the Japanese National Museum of Emerging Science and innovation (Miraikan) as it official mapping tool and is used in official Japanese high school text books.

Here you can download an AI or PDF file to print and fold your own AuthaGrap map and fold it into a tetrahedron.

The dirt track between vineyards on the shores of Lake Geneva looked nothing like a road, but my GPS system insisted this was the way to my destination. As it turned out, the tractor-rutted road did lead to my friend’s house, but the route was neither the most direct nor the best maintained. On my map, though, it looked like any other road. The GPS offered no insight into how the situation looked…

Accurate world map scoops grand prize at Good Design Awards 2016

“The AuthaGraph World Map Projection was designed by architect and artist Hajime Narukawa, who aimed to create a more accurate two-dimensional perspective of earth than ever before.

To create the map, Narukawa projected the world map on a flat surface, while maintaining the correct proportions of the earth.

He divided the world into 96 different sections and then printed them onto an inflated tetrahedron. This was then flattened and cut along the edges to produce a proportionally accurate world map.