Hajime NARUKAWA [ 鳴川 肇 ] - TEDxSeeds 2011

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Title:
行き止まりのない世界地図　ーAuthaGraphという世界の見方ー　
/An endless world map: Viewing the world through "Authagraph"

About Talks:
鳴川氏は、世界の国々の形を少し崩すものの、面積比を歪めずに長方形に収めることを可能にした世界地図AuthaGraphを発明した。球面を平面(長方形)の上に完全に表現することは不可能であることが、数学的に証明されており、「完全な地図」は存在し得ない。これまでに存在した図法は世界を長方形に収めることか面積を歪めないことのどちらかしか実現できなかった。AuthaGraphは、この二つの特徴を兼ね備えることで、航路、地質学、気象、世界史等、多様なテーマに応じて自由自在に応用することができる。

"Mr. Narukawa is the inventor of Authagraph, a world map designed to fit the world into a rectangle while almost perfectly maintaining the continents' relative size.
It is mathematically impossible to precisely project the earth's sphere onto a rectangle.
As such, previous methods would succeed in either taking on a rectangular shape or being true to the size ratio and shape of each continent, but never in both.
Authagraph is groundbreaking in that it takes on both of those qualities, making it applicable to various themes such as sea routes, geology, meteorology and world history in ways never thought possible.

撮影・配信・機材協力：
（株）キバンインターナショナル、（株）TIME-SHIFT

翻訳者・翻訳監修：
Masa Daniel Siu, Haneda Ako, Ikeda Rie, ABC Loop

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