They could get 10% bigger globes out of the same sheet of paper by rotating the icosahedron a bit (14º)
fwipsy 28 minutes ago [-]
Neat! There's a notable omission though--none of the earth globes look like earth does from space, with true color* AND clouds. A while ago I got really into making paper globes because I wanted one like that and I couldn't find one I liked. I asked Claude to write a script to generate a net out of this: https://web.archive.org/web/20250316112538/https://visibleea... Instead of an isocahedron, I used gores like a real globe. This approximates a sphere using intersecting cylindrical surfaces (not sure what the term for that solid is!) I made a bunch but usually they came out pretty lumpy, here's the best one: https://imgur.com/a/eikGrTW
*Edit: I also couldn't find a good point of reference for what "true color Earth" even looks like. Different photos/satellites seem to have notably different color calibration, just google "blue marble" and you'll see. And this isn't even getting into the weeds about atmospheric effects, which appear strongest near the limb... obviously there's no way to replicate that on a globe!
jsherer 2 hours ago [-]
Maybe I'm overlooking, but would love if this had an accurate political globe (e.g., countries and capitals) for my young kids.
jameshart 51 minutes ago [-]
I do find it interesting that while modern map apps do a great job of replacing road atlases, and we can get satellite and photogrammetry overlays that give us immense insight into how maps relate to the context on the ground, and we do have pretty good topographic mapping apps (though sadly not built in to the big map apps like Google or Apple), but one kind of map that we used to get in paper atlases but can’t explore so easily online are political maps. Google Maps is also not great as a physical map in that it is bad at labelling and naming geographic features - Apple Maps does a better job at this. But neither offers a good way to hide all the roads and just look at borders.
gus_massa 1 hours ago [-]
Borders are a nightmare because many countries have contested areas and ask everyone inside the country to use the official one, specialy at schools.
atum47 46 minutes ago [-]
I would like to see some pictures of the final product, seems very cool
nnnnico 45 minutes ago [-]
very cool. as someone not familiar with this I would love to see how they look when folded
ls1911 1 hours ago [-]
this is awesome !
soupspaces 39 minutes ago [-]
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yreg 2 hours ago [-]
Earth without water seems a bit deceptive.
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*Edit: I also couldn't find a good point of reference for what "true color Earth" even looks like. Different photos/satellites seem to have notably different color calibration, just google "blue marble" and you'll see. And this isn't even getting into the weeds about atmospheric effects, which appear strongest near the limb... obviously there's no way to replicate that on a globe!