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Google Maps now zooms out to a globe instead of a flat Earth
Google is finished thinking two-dimensionally with Maps and now shows the Earth as a globe rather than a flat "Mercator" projection as before. You won't notice the change when you first open the app, but if you zoom out far enough, you'll eventually get a moon's-eye view of our world. That means you'll see the world in a more realistic way: "With 3D Globe Mode on Google Maps desktop, Greenland's projection is no longer the size of Africa," Google Maps said on Twitter.
Also at TechCrunch.
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Cum tacent, clamant. When they are silent, they shout. -Cicero
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 05 2018, @08:10AM (1 child)
Its a dodecahedron, thats been the idea since Plato until suddenly now you go to 20 sides, why? Is it just telephone effect since a dodecahedron has 20 vertices?
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4419-8116-5_17 [springer.com]
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday August 05 2018, @09:19AM
Wow, I didn't know that. Clearly the Dodecahedron version wins on the “ancient knowledge” metric!
I chose the Icosahedron because it is arguably the “most round” of the Platonic polyhedra.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.