November 18, 2016
Alain L'Hostis, « Setting the height or the radius of cones? », A shriveling world, ID : 10670/1.u42j2z
The Sahara desert as one of the largest terrestrial area devoid of cities, an issue for time-space global cartography (L'Hostis 2016 CC-BY) In the testing of the model, the issue of the height of cones came quite quickly to the fore. As, by construction according to the principle of the model, cones are entirely drawn under the surface of the earth, cones where initially envisaged as having the height of the earth radius. Nevertheless, this choice rapidly became problematic. The limit case ...