Properties
Its properties are very similar to those of the Peirce quincuncial:
- Each hemisphere is represented as a square, the sphere as a rectangle of aspect ratio 2:1.
- The part where the exaggeration of scale amounts to double that at the centre of each square is only 9% of the area of the sphere, against 13% for the Mercator and 50% for the stereographic (Peirce, 1879)
- The curvature of lines representing great circles is, in every case, very slight, over the greater part of their length. (Peirce, 1879)
- It is conformal everywhere except at the corners of the square that corresponds to each hemisphere, where two meridians change direction abruptly twice each; the Equator is represented by a horizontal line.
- It can be tessellated in all directions.
Read more about this topic: Guyou Hemisphere-in-a-square Projection
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