This is one of my favorite subjects so I wanted to figure out why the video wouldn't play on my iphone, I ran the file through these ffmpeg options [1] that I saw here on HN and want to keep sharing the fix to self-hosted videos that don't play -- but this web page dates from 2008 according to archive.org so I doubt it will get updated with an iphone compatible mp4, anyway my mp4 reupload is here [2] is you want to see the video on iphone, let me know if it works for you.<p>Also the link to "The website of Carlos Furuti gives much information on map projection" is dead but was saved by archive.org [3], and finally I'll share my own blog where I sketched a dymaxion onto an icosohedron, really fun project. [4]<p>[1] <a href="https://gist.github.com/ingramchen/e2af352bf8b40bb88890fba4f47eccd0" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/ingramchen/e2af352bf8b40bb88890fba4f...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://coltenj.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/myria-1.mp4" rel="nofollow">https://coltenj.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/myria-1.mp4</a><p>[3] <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080524072130/http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/Normal/TOC/cartTOC.html" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20080524072130/http://www.progon...</a><p>[4] <a href="https://coltenj.com/?p=235" rel="nofollow">https://coltenj.com/?p=235</a>
Seeing this—every map projection approximated as idealized orange peels—did something to me when I saw it in 2008. I can’t quite remember the feeling, but it was similar to how I felt after watching <i>Inventing on Principle</i>—the authors as toiling metaphysicists, returning from the mountain with gifts for physicists.<p>I think another author was similarly affected, creating a nice web version on its 10th anniversary:<p><a href="https://medium.com/vis-gl/unfolding-the-earth-myriahedral-projections-in-webgl-6b2bcfd00a30" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/vis-gl/unfolding-the-earth-myriahedral-pr...</a>