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31Midsphere — A polyhedron and its midsphere. The red circles are the boundaries of spherical caps within which the surface of the sphere can be seen from each vertex. In geometry, the midsphere or intersphere of a polyhedron is a sphere which is tangent to… …
32Texture (crystalline) — In materials science, texture is the distribution of crystallographic orientations of a polycrystalline sample. A sample in which these orientations are fully random is said to have no texture. If the crystallographic orientations are not random …
33List of coordinate charts — This article attempts to conveniently list articles on some of the most useful coordinate charts in some of the most useful examples of Riemannian manifolds.The notion of a coordinate chart is fundamental to various notions of a manifold which… …
34Geo Warping — This article explains a technology called Geo Warping in the context of real time visualization of geo referenced radar video data. Geo Warping allows displaying radar video consistently with any geographical projection and thus avoids any… …
35map — mappable, adj. mapper, n. /map/, n., v., mapped, mapping. n. 1. a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships… …
36Map — /map/, n. Walter, c1140 1209?, Welsh ecclesiastic, poet, and satirist. Also, Mapes /mayps, may peez/. * * * I Graphic representation, drawn to scale and usually on a flat surface, of features usually geographic, geologic, or geopolitical of an… …
37MAP — See modified American plan. * * * I Graphic representation, drawn to scale and usually on a flat surface, of features usually geographic, geologic, or geopolitical of an area of the Earth or of any celestial body. Globes are maps represented on… …
38Star chart — Star map redirects here. For other uses, see Star map (disambiguation). A celestial map from the 17th century, by the Dutch cartographer Frederik de Wit A star chart is a map of the night sky. Astronomers divide these into grids to use them more… …
39History of navigation — In the pre modern history of human migration and discovery of new lands by navigating the oceans, a few peoples have excelled as sea faring explorers. Prominent examples are the Phoenicians, the ancient Greeks, the Persians, the Arabians, the… …
