this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2026
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If stretching is ok, then why not go all the way.
If you dislike stretching, you can always cut instead. That's why we also have a series of octahedral butterfly maps.
If that's not polyhedral enough, you could try the Dymaxion projection instead.
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