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Polar projection

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See under Projection.
a projection of the sphere in which the point of sight is at the center, and the plane of projection passes through one of the polar circles.

See also: Polar Projection



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It covers hyper-plane sections of lp-balls, volume and the Fourier transform, intersection bodies, the Busemann-Petty problem, projections and the Fourier transform, intersection bodies and Lp-spaces, between polar projection bodies and intersection bodies, and open problems.
When you look at a polar projection of the state, you can see that by air plane, we're a lot closer to places than most people think.
Polar Projections, by Richard Milewski of San Jose, Calif.
 
 
 
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