<html><body name="Mail Message Editor"><div><br></div><div>Kristian:</div><div><br></div><div>I appreciate the kind words. </div><div><br></div><div>The original image is rendered at 300 dpi, 60 x 150 cm (5' x 2'). I have printed this on photographic paper. It's... well... let's just say people stare. Then they stare some more. Then they study it for a long, long time.</div><div><br></div><div>A TIFF rendition at full resolution runs about 35 MB with lossless compression. I do recommend full resolution and full size: the image contains an immense amount of real information. It need not be "merely" decorative. The image I posted publicly is 1/3² the resolution, and, as you noticed, is degraded both by the JPEG compression and the loss of resolution. I suppose it is still somewhat scientific, but it would not survive printing well at all. I am confident of that because I have produced smaller versions in print on the finest printers available, and those prints do not really convey the material.</div><div><br></div><div>I find I can retain full resolution in a 7 MB JPEG file without the compression artifacts becoming onerous, particularly when printed. I have placed it here:</div><div><br></div><div>http://www.mapthematics.com/Cornucopia100.jpg</div><div><br></div><div>If there is sufficient interest in print copies of this image at full size on archival paper with durable inks, I would consider a production run. I have the facilities for it. I haven't tried to figure out what it might cost.</div><div><br></div><div>Glad you liked UTM.</div><div>;-)</div><div>It's the inevitable consequence of a uniform scale throughout. I thought I'd leave it in as a joke.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>-- daan Strebe</div><div><br></div><br>On Nov 4, 2008, at 3:21:16 PM, "Kristian Thy" <thy@42.dk> wrote:<br><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: blue; color: blue; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="width: 100%; "><div id="felix-mail-header-block" style="color: black; background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: silver; padding-bottom: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; width: 100%; "><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td width="70px" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8pt; color: gray; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; "><span>From:</span></td><td style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8pt; color: black; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-left: 5px; "><span title=""Kristian Thy" <thy@42.dk>">"Kristian Thy" <thy@42.dk></span></td></tr><tr><td width="70px" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8pt; color: gray; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; "><span>Subject:</span></td><td style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8pt; color: black; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-left: 5px; "><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Re: [Proj] A Cornucopia of Map Projections</span></td></tr><tr><td width="70px" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8pt; color: gray; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; "><span>Date:</span></td><td style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8pt; color: black; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-left: 5px; "><span>November 4, 2008 3:21:16 PM PST</span></td></tr><tr><td width="70px" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8pt; color: gray; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; "><span>To:</span></td><td style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8pt; color: black; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-left: 5px; "><span title="proj@lists.maptools.org">proj@lists.maptools.org</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div id="felix-mail-content-block" style="color: black; background-color: white; width: 100%; "><div style="font-family: monospace; color: black; background-color: white; font-size: 8pt; "><pre>On Tue, Nov 04, strebe wrote:
> A visualization of distortion on about 170 map projections. Don't
> forget to use your browser's zoom-in function. For your viewing
> pleasure:
>
> http://www.mapthematics.com/Cornucopia33.jpg
Very neat! (Especially like the UTM visualization ...)
Is there any chance of you putting up a png or other lossless version?
The jpeg artefacts make it less appealing as cubicle decoration ;)
\\kristian
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