Amazing, I just finished writing a program to do the same thing, with a smaller subset of polyhedra, specifically for printing or CNC work. If I had found this a month ago I might have saved myself hours.
After starting the project, I found this: http://www.spiralsbysteve.com/globes.php. If we can produce something that looks half as good as this, I'll be thrilled.
This is absolutely gorgeous. Doesn't work on my mobile device but well worth investigating on desktop. Fun for me since I used to have a hobby of making various polyhedra with unit origami [1]. Apparently it's an update from this older site. [2]
Very interesting. It would have been really cool if you could drag&drop the "globe" around in realtime (i.e. shift things so Australia was at the center, or Canada, or wherever.
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After starting the project, I found this: http://www.spiralsbysteve.com/globes.php. If we can produce something that looks half as good as this, I'll be thrilled.
See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbQsOneX-8c
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Unit-Origami-Multidimensional-Tomoko-...
[2] https://www.win.tue.nl/~vanwijk/myriahedral/
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
A metaphor for the dispersion of our species.