Re: (TFT) Mark's equal-area-icosahedral map

["Jay Carlisle" <selfinflicted_wounds@boardermail.com>]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick Smith" <rsmith@lightspeed.ca>
> To: tft@brainiac.com
> Subject: (TFT) Mark's equal-area-icosahedral map
> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:31:12 -0700
> 
> 
> Hi Mark, everyone.
>    The map below is called an equal-area-icosahedral
> projection.  Note that 12 of the hexagons are really
> pentagons but both (hexes and pentagons) represent
> the same area.
> 

Thanks for this one Rick!
I'm still trying to get my head wraped around it for Orbits but I was only up to Space Trader for representing a whole Planet at a time.
Who says the Mnoren didn't leave a starship or two (or three, or four, or a hundred, or a thousand, and so in 1843 the louisi.... ahem.)



Jay

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