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The equations to convert a point on the sphere

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to a point on 2D plane
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are:

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where

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is the longitude and
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the latitude. R is the radius of the sphere, which is 1 in our program.
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and
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are two constants controlling the shape of the projection.

TestLatex (last edited 2009-09-16 16:41:43 by isdsal125pc78)