Sentences with phrase «flat map»

There are 3 map views to choose from — a standard flat map view, a bird's - eye view that displays the curvature of the earth, and a 3 - D map that offers 3 - dimensional representations of the terrain and buildings.

Choplifter's graphics are very nice and the 2.5 D effect lends a certain depth to the otherwise flat maps.

And then, by sheer chance, the map shapes appeared whilst I was in Hotel Chelsea so I started painting maps of South America and Guyana, and then I decided that I would do the entire flat map as a motif to work with.

The problem was the portolan mapmakers» lack of a systematic way of reducing the spherical Earth to a flat map.

In 1569, the Belgian geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator created his method for presenting a spherical world on a flat map, the one familiar to us today.

«FEMA creates a flat map from the river side of things and a flat map from the storm surge side of things, and they just overlay them, which assumes that these two things are completely independent.

Using it, ships and airplanes can cross the oceans along «great circle routes» that look circuitous (when displayed on a flat map) but which in fact follow the straightest, quickest way across.

Cartographers know the difficulties involved in wrapping a flat map around a globe, but at least they can lay down lines of latitude and longitude with ease when mapping our planet.

In reality spiral arms are 3 - dimensional structures but over a large area objects within them can have their positions represented approximately on a flat map.

They represent the Earth well — better than flat maps.

But, it looks like a fairly derivative game with a 3D that doesn't seem to change the game any more than if they gave you a flat map that you weren't allowed to zoom out of all of the way.

Each time you start a new campaign, you choose its difficulty and length (short - medium - long), and a flat map made of hexagons appears before you.

As you can see in the video, Harris had some trouble taking the globe and making a flat map out of it, which is a problem many cartographers have dealt with for centuries.

Sarah Morris's large paintings take the shape of a flat map of streets usually associated with grid structures.

The flat map lifts and hovers in front of you as a collection of abstract forms, a delicate play of mark making attuned to meditations on place.