Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

At first glance, Greenland appears almost as large as the entire continent of Africa on many world maps. In reality, ...

Maps are deceiving. You see, the surface of a sphere cannot be represented as a plane without some form of distortion. Since the 1500s, scientists have been developing algorithms that would help ...

Learn projection mapping for beginners with the MadMapper demo, grid generators, and masks, so you create bold visuals on a ...

We all know that the Earth is round, not flat. But our maps are flat. If you can remove all the peel from an orange in one go (an impressive task in itself), try to lay it out flat like a piece of ...

Attachment styles are fascinating, but they can also be confusing. It’s logical to assume that you have an insecure attachment style if you feel insecure. This notion may be reinforced by the ...

Astronomers used subtle warps in galaxy shapes to map the invisible forces shaping the universe. By reanalyzing years of telescope images, they studied more than 100 million galaxies across an ...

Many projects on these pages do clever things with video. Whether it’s digital or analogue, it’s certain our community can push a humble microcontroller to the limit of its capability. But sometimes ...