Arcs on Spheres and Snakes on Planes
David Swart

Proceedings of Bridges 2024: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture
Pages 353–356
Short Papers

Abstract

An existing method to map points from the sphere to the plane uses a turtle language to specify a ‘skeleton’ which is then used to create artistic map projections. We augment this method by adding a new turtle command to draw non-great-circle arcs. We discuss some technical details and show some early artistic explorations.

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