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by amitparikh 744 days ago
The "projection" can be centered on any arbitrary point, actually. See https://vanderbei.princeton.edu/planets_webgl/GottPlanets.ht...
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arijun 744 days ago
So can the Mercator projection (or any projection really). Why is the author complaining about the California-Japan distance when they can just recenter near there?

Point being, recentering is not the answer.

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