Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections

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80 points·hunter-2··11 comments

This is absolutely gorgeous. Doesn't work on my mobile device but well worth investigating on desktop. Fun for me since I used to have a hobby of making various polyhedra with unit origami [1]. Apparently it's an update from this older site. [2]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Unit-Origami-Multidimensional-Tomoko-...

[2] https://www.win.tue.nl/~vanwijk/myriahedral/

I recommend this MIT OCW for people interested in the math behind origami and folding problems:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

I love the poetry of lines spiraling out of Africa.

A metaphor for the dispersion of our species.

Amazing, I just finished writing a program to do the same thing, with a smaller subset of polyhedra, specifically for printing or CNC work. If I had found this a month ago I might have saved myself hours.

Can I see anything you have printed/CNC'd?

What I just finished is the layout software, I'm hoping to start some CNC work soon.

https://github.com/alanbernstein/dymaxion

After starting the project, I found this: http://www.spiralsbysteve.com/globes.php. If we can produce something that looks half as good as this, I'll be thrilled.

Very interesting. It would have been really cool if you could drag&drop the "globe" around in realtime (i.e. shift things so Australia was at the center, or Canada, or wherever.