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The Adams hemisphere-in-a-square is a
The Adams hemisphere-in-a-square is a conformal
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* Conformal coating in electronics
* Conformal cooling channel, in injection or blow moulding
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map projection
In cartography, map projection is the term used to describe a broad set of transformations employed to represent the two-dimensional curved surface of a globe on a plane. In a map projection, coordinates, often expressed as latitude and longit ...
for a hemisphere. It is a transverse version of the Peirce quincuncial projection, and is named after American cartographer Oscar Sherman Adams, who published it in 1925.. When it is used to represent the entire sphere it is known as the Adams doubly periodic
In the mathematical field of complex analysis, elliptic functions are a special kind of meromorphic functions, that satisfy two periodicity conditions. They are named elliptic functions because they come from elliptic integrals. Originally those in ...
projection. Like many conformal projections, conformality fails at certain points, in this case at the four corners.
See also
*List of map projections
This is a summary of map projections that have articles of their own on Wikipedia or that are otherwise notable
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* Guyou hemisphere-in-a-square projection
* Doubly periodic function
References
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