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Diagram: Waterman butterfly projection
Drawing: Adrien Taudière (CC0)

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Waterman butterfly projection

Polyhedral projection unfolding the globe into a butterfly shape from a truncated octahedron.

projection Waterman papillon

aussi : papillon de Waterman

Projection polyédrique qui déplie le globe en papillon à partir d'un octaèdre tronqué.

Steve Waterman (1996). Projection de compromis ni conforme ni équivalente.

Classification

  • map
  • the name evokes: nature, eponym

Attestation

Sources (2)

Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/waterman-butterfly-projection.html

ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. Waterman butterfly projection. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/waterman-butterfly-projection.html

BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-waterman-butterfly-projection,
  author    = {Taudière, Adrien},
  title     = {Waterman butterfly projection},
  booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  publisher = {IdEst},
  url       = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/waterman-butterfly-projection.html},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

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