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Snyder’s Tetrahedron (2x)

 

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  Snyder’s Tetrahedron (2x)
Creator John P. Snyder (1992)
Group Polyhedral
Property Equal-area
Other Names
  • Snyder equal-area tetrahedron
Remarks A.D. Bradley described Irving Fisher’s equal-area polyhedral map projection in 1946. Snyder improved and generalized Fisher’s method.

The projection is shown twice here, in the north polar and the south polar aspects. I just didn’t want to waste too much space… ;-)

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