¶ Skinning
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Skinning:
“When you transfer the projected data from the surface of a sphere to a plane, you have to break open the spherical skin in order to ‘peel’ it. There will be various angular cuts in the periphery of the skin when it is laid out flat, just as you take the skin off an animal. The openings along the edges are called sinuses. The sinuses on my map occur in the water. None of the cuts go into the land. Therefore, I am able to take all of the data off the Earth globe and make it accurately available in the flat.”
¶ Citations
- RBF to Wm. Marlin, Architectural Forum, p.71, Feb’72
