On 09/12/2023 16:16, Cousin Ricky wrote:
> It irritates me when I see a flat map mapped incorrectly onto a globe.
> It seems to be a symptom of people having grown up with Mercator maps,
> and never learning the correct relative sizes of land masses.  I've seen
> this done several times in professional settings, and I don't know
> whether the CGI people actually don't know what a globe is supposed to
> look like, or that they *do* know, and they're deliberately doing it
> wrong because they know that their *audience* doesn't know what a globe
> is supposed to look like.
> 
> But I'm sure that in Chris Bartlett's case, it was the former.
> 
> About 10 years ago, I left a feedback comment with the correct mapping
> on the Object Collection website, but by then Chris was no longer around
> to see it.  I finally decided to rectify the error myself:
> 
>   https://github.com/CousinRicky/POV-TheEarth
> 


I think the problem comes from the software used, which nowadays allows
all kinds of projections. The people who use this software don't really
know what this or that option corresponds to. Just right-click and it's
mapped...

Anyway, thanks for the correction.



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Kurtz le pirate
Compagnie de la Banquise

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