Citations:myriahedron
English citations of myriahedron
- 1888, The American Catholic Quarterly Review, volume 13, page 62:
- When we attempt to imagine a figure with a much larger number of sides, say a myriahedron, or figure of ten thousand sides, we cannot for the life of us see any difference between it and a circle, unless, indeed, we have seen it drawn on an enormous circle.
- 2017, Alexander Kent, Landmarks in Mapping: 50 Years of the Cartographic Journal:
- The globe is projected on a myriahedron, a polyhedron with a very large number of faces.
A myriahedron is a polyhedron with a myriad of faces. The Latin word myriad is derived from the Greek word murioi, which means ten thousands or innumerable. We project the surface of the earth on such a myriahedron, we label its edges as folds or cuts, and fold it out to obtain a flat map.
He subsequently developed a new class of methods for mapping the Earth where the spherical surface was mapped onto a myriahedron.
- 2018, CyberGIS for Geospatial Discovery and Innovation, page 175:
- More recently, van Wijk (2012, p. 33) projected the globe on a myriahedron that is then “cut open and unfolded” to a specific myriahedral projection.
- 2020, Archeologia e Calcolatori, 31.2, 2020:
- In 2008, J. van Wijk published the Myriahedral Projections for the Earth surface based on the development of a myriahedron, a regular solid composed of a “myriad” of triangles developed according to specific geographic connections (Van Wijk 2008).
- 2020, Gabriele Ferretti, Brian Glenney, Molyneux’s Question and the History of Philosophy:
- Spinoza would perhaps think that the blind man would have a more difficult time distinctly reproducing for himself say, the affections he would expect from a myriahedron (a 1000-faced[sic] solid figure) as compared to say an enneahectohedron (a 900-faced solid figure).