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  Re: kind of Mercator  
From: Le Forgeron
Date: 20 Dec 2011 03:35:52
Message: <4ef048e8@news.povray.org>
Le 20/12/2011 01:42, clipka a écrit :
> FYI, the projection you used is not a transverse Mercator, but Cassini
> (aka transverse equirectangular projection). Mercator would project your
> "outer equator" into infinity,

HS! You're probably right. Mercator would use a cylinder and so far I'm
on a sphere. Bad me, very bad me.

Back to the drawing table and the equations... put the right labels on
the right bottles...


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