Map Projections: Cuboctahedra

Map Projections

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Pseudoglobes on a Cuboctahedron

The cuboctahedron is a quasiregular or Archimedean polyhedron, which can be imagined as a cube whose eight corners were removed (cut off by planes passing through the midpoint of each original edge), creating eight new triangular faces. Its relatively large faces make it fairly easy to build. However, please read the generic assembly tips. You might also learn something about cuboctahedral and polyhedral maps in general.

High Resolution Maps

	Gnomonic projection on a cuboctahedron, poles on square faces, flat-colored (103 KB PDF)
	Gnomonic projection on a cuboctahedron, poles on square faces, color-coded topographic relief (original data by the USGS) (2642 KB PDF)
	Gnomonic projection on a cuboctahedron, poles on square faces, black and white (paint it yourself) (89 KB PDF)

Low Resolution Maps

	Gnomonic projection on a cuboctahedron, poles on triangular faces, AVHRR Pathfinder data by Dave Pape, resumbrae.com (178 KB)
	Gnomonic projection on a cuboctahedron, poles on triangular faces, black and white (paint it yourself) (38 KB)
	Gnomonic projection on a cuboctahedron, poles on triangular faces, flat-gray (44 KB)
	Gnomonic projection on a cuboctahedron, poles on triangular faces, flat-colored (44 KB)
	Gnomonic projection on a cuboctahedron, poles on square faces, flat-colored (46 KB)
$textured map$	Gnomonic projection on a cuboctahedron, poles on square faces, textured (183 KB)
	Gnomonic projection on a cuboctahedron, poles on square faces, EOSVid data by Dave Pape, resumbrae.com (187 KB)
	Gnomonic projection on a cuboctahedron, poles on square faces, black and white (paint it yourself) (39 KB)