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Re: Showing a Mercator Projection is not a perspective projection
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2017 Jan 1, 12:23 -0800
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2017 Jan 1, 12:23 -0800
Robin Stuart, you wrote:
"I was pretty much convinced by the presence of the logarithm in the formula for meridional parts but then maybe I'm just easy."
In fact, that was a brilliant point which had never occurred to me before: geometric projections generate trigonometric functions aplenty... but logarithms? No. For the right audience, this is a quick and easy demonstration that the Mercator projection is very far from the geometry of a pure cylindrical projection.
Frank Reed
