A Strange Map Projection (Euler Spiral) - Numberphile

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  • @numberphile
    @numberphile  5 років тому +200

    Poster and sticker based on this video: teespring.com/en-GB/euler-spiral-world-map

    • @kaitiesaxe5753
      @kaitiesaxe5753 5 років тому +4

      Bought the poster and framed it, I love it so much ❤️

    • @ladymercy5275
      @ladymercy5275 4 роки тому +2

      I really love this channel. I'm glad that you're all doing this.

    • @lxdimension
      @lxdimension 4 роки тому +4

      Can we see this mapped out properly on a computer model image please? That would be pretty cool!

    • @hairyairey
      @hairyairey 4 роки тому

      @@lxdimension Mathematica should be able to handle it.

    • @freeman7788
      @freeman7788 4 роки тому +2

      Earth is flat. Like a dinner plate.

  • @EmperorTigerstar
    @EmperorTigerstar 5 років тому +1396

    The Euler Spiral map both horrifies and intrigues me.

    • @enricmm85
      @enricmm85 5 років тому +57

      We need a history of the world day by day map on this projection.

    • @yoavshati
      @yoavshati 5 років тому +7

      That's the beauty of math

    • @qncsc
      @qncsc 5 років тому +9

      i am ONLY utterly horrified at the time waste, as it has 0 benefit
      how about that math -- cost, (trends to) infinite, and benefit, (trends to) 0.

    • @pfgoffical2746
      @pfgoffical2746 5 років тому +9

      HISTORY YEAR BY YEAR ON THIS MAP

    • @ianmoseley9910
      @ianmoseley9910 5 років тому +19

      Marcus Aurelius it has a certain amusement value and introduces the concept of the Euler spiral. An old saying about knowing the cost of everything but the value of nothing comes to mind.

  • @Hirudin
    @Hirudin 5 років тому +6177

    Oh no, wait until the flat orangers see this video...

    • @Lezzylree
      @Lezzylree 5 років тому +49

      Oh no

    • @BrekMartin
      @BrekMartin 5 років тому +136

      There’s probably not a great deal of them watching Numberphile.

    • @PaoloSilverInzaghi
      @PaoloSilverInzaghi 5 років тому +8

      My mind went to the team from the marble races instead of poking fun at flat earthers.

    • @almostatheist
      @almostatheist 5 років тому +5

      Hirudin
      So globbies can no longer say a sphere cannot be put on a flat surface

    • @almostatheist
      @almostatheist 5 років тому +7

      Brek Martin
      I’m a flat earther and a scientist and i watch them

  • @samuctrebla3221
    @samuctrebla3221 4 роки тому +243

    "In 3 hundred meters, make a loop around the earth, and then turn right"

  • @muzvid
    @muzvid 5 років тому +65

    My favorite map of the globe was designed by Buckminster Fuller. It projects the earth's surface onto an icosahedron, distributing the distortions across 20 triangles. It also radiates the continents out from the north pole, displaying the world as basically one large land-mass surrounded by one continuous ocean. As much as possible, the cuts are in the ocean.

  • @devagarwal1591
    @devagarwal1591 5 років тому +763

    This is spiralling out of control.

    • @SolarWebsite
      @SolarWebsite 5 років тому +47

      Your joke might have fallen flat...

    • @SBJBeats
      @SBJBeats 5 років тому +14

      Orange you happy with the result?

    • @K1lostream
      @K1lostream 5 років тому +4

      That orange pun was terrible! I bet helix windows.

    • @heyandy889
      @heyandy889 5 років тому

      gottem

    • @grinreaperoftrolls7528
      @grinreaperoftrolls7528 5 років тому

      I appreciate that pun

  • @ESPONO974
    @ESPONO974 5 років тому +441

    I've learned about gaussian curvature when the Klein Bottle professor explained to me how to correctly hold a pizza slice!

    • @Anolaana
      @Anolaana 5 років тому +9

      Clive Stoll's video about it is great!

    • @ESPONO974
      @ESPONO974 5 років тому +26

      Cliff is very... enthusiastic :D

    • @General_Nothing
      @General_Nothing 5 років тому +1

      Yes! I was thinking of that video too.

    • @epajarjestys9981
      @epajarjestys9981 5 років тому +5

      *Klein bottle.

    • @ESPONO974
      @ESPONO974 5 років тому +3

      @@epajarjestys9981 thanks, edited ;)

  • @johanmedrano1924
    @johanmedrano1924 4 роки тому +1360

    Normal people: the earth is round
    Flat earthers: the earth is flat
    Mathematicians: the earth should be a spiral

    • @statusquo9520
      @statusquo9520 4 роки тому +21

      The Earth is a doughnut

    • @platypuschallenger
      @platypuschallenger 4 роки тому +13

      the earth is hollow

    • @jackiedoesthings6910
      @jackiedoesthings6910 4 роки тому +16

      The earth is a Potato

    • @illegalquantity
      @illegalquantity 4 роки тому +19

      Earth is a planet

    • @Alienshade
      @Alienshade 4 роки тому +11

      Only satanist christians think the world is round. Especially the capitalistic Christians from USA that love Trump the demon lord Nurgle. Ha ha I needed to write that sorry.

  • @zwitter689
    @zwitter689 5 років тому +113

    I don't know if what I enjoyed more - Hannah's narration or the mathematics. Both are delightful

  • @LuxuryDigitalAgenci
    @LuxuryDigitalAgenci 5 років тому +848

    New Hannah Fry video?!?!? It's like christmas to me

    • @ansharora7566
      @ansharora7566 5 років тому +18

      Merry Christmas

    • @gothenix
      @gothenix 5 років тому +17

      To me to
      In Poland >30 years ago you would’ve seen oranges ONLY on Christmas

    • @LucenProject
      @LucenProject 5 років тому +2

      I was thinking the same thing!

    • @b_lumenkraft
      @b_lumenkraft 5 років тому

      Same here !!

    • @miertul
      @miertul 5 років тому

      Agreed :)

  • @fishypaw
    @fishypaw 5 років тому +806

    I love Hannah's presenting "style", relaxed but enthusiastic at the same time. I've always been a bit of nerd when it comes to peeling oranges. One of my favourites is to make a little lantern out of it. I also remember seeing (in my grandpa's magic book) a way of peeling an orange that allows you to remove the orange but the peel stays as a sphere that can expand to get the orange out but keeps the overall shape. I've forgotten how to do it though. I'll need to see if I can find out how to do it again. I doubt it would work as a map though, but it looks cool.

    • @GreeneyedApe
      @GreeneyedApe 5 років тому +15

      Hey, a globe is the best kind of map we have! :)

    • @ffggddss
      @ffggddss 5 років тому +1

      @@GreeneyedApe Yup, hands down! Except when you want something you can fold up and put in a drawer or a glove box.
      Fred

    • @witmoreluke
      @witmoreluke 5 років тому +4

      @@ffggddss Inflatable globe! However, globes are rather impractical for typical driving directions.

    • @gustavgnoettgen
      @gustavgnoettgen 5 років тому +1

      A spiral would work, but I guess it was a more compact shape?

    • @olivialuv1
      @olivialuv1 Рік тому

      I wanna hear more about your grandpa's magic book

  • @michaeljohnregalado4798
    @michaeljohnregalado4798 4 роки тому +562

    Hannah Fry: “We’ve only got this room for an hour. What should we do?”
    Obviously cut up a globe into an Euler spiral

    • @JLHunter61
      @JLHunter61 4 роки тому +63

      My reply would have been inappropriate!

    • @jollyjokress3852
      @jollyjokress3852 3 роки тому

      😂😂

    • @joyboricua3721
      @joyboricua3721 3 роки тому +2

      Lock the door

    • @americantoastman7296
      @americantoastman7296 3 роки тому +28

      @@JLHunter61 can incels just get outta here?

    • @jacobschiller4486
      @jacobschiller4486 3 роки тому +26

      @@americantoastman7296 lol dude the original comment was an obvious setup for lewd jokes. stop getting offended on behalf of other people, dickface.

  • @RhejMacTavish
    @RhejMacTavish 5 років тому +412

    "Mathematically beautiful, if Geographically impractical" 😂

    • @williammook8041
      @williammook8041 4 роки тому +7

      We're using this to assemble big spherical concentrators in space to make really low mass solar power systems. So, we find it technically practical.

    • @grarglejobber7941
      @grarglejobber7941 4 роки тому +5

      Shut your dirty mouth Hannah Fry is perfection

    • @hehted
      @hehted 4 роки тому +2

      Gotta get the T Shirt!

    • @eastvandb
      @eastvandb 4 роки тому +2

      @@williammook8041
      That sounds very interesting. Who is the 'we' in that comment?

    • @zachperez8937
      @zachperez8937 3 роки тому +2

      @@williammook8041 but still not geographically practical :(

  • @gussnarp
    @gussnarp 5 років тому +229

    As a geographer, I really loved this video and learning about this new projection. This projection shares a feature with the Mercator projection. On the Mercator projection there is one place where there is zero distortion, which is the equator, where the cylinder would touch the sphere. The Euler spiral enables you to create a similar line of zero distortion that encompasses the whole globe. Of course, in both cases the true line of zero distortion is a one dimensional line, which is why you have to go to infinity in the spiral to get there, but I completely see the beauty in this. I love it.

    • @samiramin5895
      @samiramin5895 5 років тому +9

      thanks, this helped me understand what they meant by "no distortion"!

    • @brendonholder2522
      @brendonholder2522 5 років тому

      gussnarp could you explain this further for me?

    • @sonaruo
      @sonaruo 5 років тому +1

      @@brendonholder2522 when you have a curved surface mapping it in 2d you get some distortion
      but when you make the strips since you can make them really tiny stripes
      while you still get distortion it will be smaller
      practically the centre line of each stripe will have no distortion
      which in practice means you will have more points of no distortion of your end map
      if you theoretical you can get stripes the size of line you will end with no distortion at all

    • @brendonholder2522
      @brendonholder2522 5 років тому +4

      ANIKHTOS that’s really interesting! I’m writing an paper (an Internal Assessment Math investigation for the IB Diploma Program) and I’m thinking of using an Euler spiral to make a map such that you can move in vectors on the map in a manner similar to that of a Mercator projected map. Any suggestions on how to go about investigating this?

    • @sonaruo
      @sonaruo 5 років тому +3

      @@brendonholder2522
      well i have not seen any map
      but the most serious question is how the coordinate system would look like??
      the longitude lines wil be inside the strip going up left to down right depending how you cut the spirals from the globe
      while the latitude will be almost vertical line at the strip
      i imagine the goals is the spiral will match the latitude lines to be one big line???
      besides how weird it will look like
      since the map lets see reaches perfect of the globe that means you have 2d representation of a 3d surface
      so even if you make vectors in the map
      you need to have 3d geometry to calculate their values
      and that will be for the 2 circular parts
      what about the line that connects them??
      some points (area of the globe ) will not be in either the 2 circular parts put in the line connecting them
      so you will have to split the formula for the circular part and the line part
      but we need a visual of this projection to see where everything has moved in
      is the spiral actually form a circular area or not?? or there is tiny gaps in between ??
      or you will make a tine distortion there and make it a circular part?
      after all you will not be able to cut infinite stripes so you will introduce some distortion in the end

  • @jalabi99
    @jalabi99 5 років тому +2223

    Hello, I am from the Flat Orange Society. Mind if we have a word?...

    • @ancientindianguru1714
      @ancientindianguru1714 5 років тому +29

      The Earth is Flat. These are bunch of projections. This is not our real map. This is a small map of small part of Earth. Who knows what they're doing in Antarctica.

    • @dastgahjoosh
      @dastgahjoosh 5 років тому +32

      @@ancientindianguru1714 Hahahaha

    • @alfredodominguez2799
      @alfredodominguez2799 5 років тому +13

      @@ancientindianguru1714 if we end the federal government we can take back nasa and area 51 and we can find out whats really going on.

    • @Superknullisch
      @Superknullisch 5 років тому +35

      @@alfredodominguez2799 Yes, I heard they are developing some serious high tech pasta!!!

    • @fotofillholland
      @fotofillholland 5 років тому +6

      Thank your lucky stars you're not from the Flat Easy Peeler Society, I want to know why there's a conspiracy against my satsumas.

  • @joshuagriffiths3991
    @joshuagriffiths3991 5 років тому +484

    "I think we should prioritize mathematical beauty over geographical practicality." - Hannah Fry
    I can't tell you how much I love this statement.

    • @alandouglas2789
      @alandouglas2789 3 роки тому +5

      You sound incredibly pompous

    • @Doxsein
      @Doxsein 3 роки тому +11

      @@alandouglas2789 ?

    • @zlosliwa_menda
      @zlosliwa_menda 2 роки тому +3

      It's just a little joke.

    • @alexyz9430
      @alexyz9430 2 роки тому

      @@alandouglas2789 I will devour your mother.

  • @rhubarbjin
    @rhubarbjin 5 років тому +226

    4:05 “There are a few different options here, but none of them are going to get you completely around this problem.”
    I see what you did there.

    • @randomdude9135
      @randomdude9135 5 років тому +2

      Cutting earth spirally?

    • @hehted
      @hehted 4 роки тому +2

      Yeah. Why not?

    • @rhubarbjin
      @rhubarbjin 2 роки тому

      @Noel Coward "...get *completely around* the problem" ;)

  • @emperorpicard6474
    @emperorpicard6474 5 років тому +589

    Imagine folding the Euler Spiral map in the car.

    • @johnfrancisdoe1563
      @johnfrancisdoe1563 5 років тому +15

      Simon Moore No problem. You are not folding the spiral, you are folding a piece of paper with the flattened spiral on it. So it's like a nice long map that has one or two folds in the short direction and an easy harmonica in the other.

    • @gumunduringigumundsson9344
      @gumunduringigumundsson9344 4 роки тому +1

      Nooooooooo...

    • @gumunduringigumundsson9344
      @gumunduringigumundsson9344 4 роки тому +1

      @@johnfrancisdoe1563 yeah.. better than what I remember.

    • @multi-mason
      @multi-mason 4 роки тому +4

      You could reel it up on two spindles.

    • @JLHunter61
      @JLHunter61 4 роки тому +1

      @Multi Mason So basically like a new Torah?

  • @dingaia
    @dingaia 5 років тому +138

    love hannah

  • @WalrusRiderCycling
    @WalrusRiderCycling 4 роки тому +465

    Your subscribers are now 3.2 million but I am wondering who was the Pi millionth subscriber 🤔

    • @SeanCMonahan
      @SeanCMonahan 3 роки тому +174

      There couldn't have been! Don't be irrational.

    • @legislativequeery
      @legislativequeery 3 роки тому +12

      That number does not belong to the set of countable numbers.

    • @angelogandolfo4174
      @angelogandolfo4174 3 роки тому +13

      There wasn’t one. The queue for that title is infinite, so the person queuing for it, would have had nowhere to stand......

    • @dwc1970
      @dwc1970 3 роки тому +28

      @@legislativequeery There is at least the 3,141,592nd subscriber (or 3,141,593rd if you round it up).

    • @legislativequeery
      @legislativequeery 3 роки тому +7

      @@dwc1970 Yes, if π≠π such that π ∈ ℚ→ ∃ π*10⁵ ∈ ℕ
      But that would break math

  • @oHawkeyeo
    @oHawkeyeo 4 роки тому +1595

    If hannah fry was my maths lecturer, I wouldn't miss a class

    • @keithwilson6060
      @keithwilson6060 4 роки тому +280

      And neither would we really ever learn anything.

    • @Dragondave17real
      @Dragondave17real 4 роки тому +214

      I came to the comments section for this.
      UA-cam: Numberphile in title
      My brain: HannahFryphile

    • @TheAce736
      @TheAce736 4 роки тому +108

      I'm glad I'm not the only one with those embarrassing lapses in focus.

    • @dougg1075
      @dougg1075 4 роки тому +62

      What? Sorry I wasn’t paying attention.

    • @blorkpovud1576
      @blorkpovud1576 4 роки тому +11

      I'm so lazy, I probably still would.

  • @DemoEvolvedGaming
    @DemoEvolvedGaming 5 років тому +397

    Are you telling me there is no Euler Spiral map of the earth generated by computer with n=9999 anywhere on the internet?

    • @descuddlebat
      @descuddlebat 5 років тому +45

      yet.

    • @joso5681
      @joso5681 5 років тому +109

      I trust that by writing this comment I will be notified when this happens

    • @jessedevault3533
      @jessedevault3533 5 років тому +35

      I would like to be added to this list.

    • @pizzameninvaded7251
      @pizzameninvaded7251 5 років тому +15

      As would I

    • @jordanzish
      @jordanzish 5 років тому +62

      RemindMe! 2 days
      And yes this is the first entry in an impromptu petition to implement Reddit's RemindMe bot on UA-cam. Spread the word.

  • @Kentnstay
    @Kentnstay 5 років тому +162

    A Euler Spiral map would be a great piece of Numberphile merch.

    • @toferg.8264
      @toferg.8264 5 років тому +3

      Now you're playing with power!

    • @Samuel_Hearfield
      @Samuel_Hearfield 5 років тому +1

      Cristobal Jorje I prefer playing with surds to be honest.

    • @thomasolson7447
      @thomasolson7447 4 роки тому +1

      Only if Hannah does the cutting.

  • @infantryhawk
    @infantryhawk 2 роки тому +14

    I never get tired of the deadpan humor on this channel, great work as always guys.

  • @lumer2b
    @lumer2b 5 років тому +123

    I think it's important to say why/how Mercator is useful for navigation. A straight line in Mercator is not a straight line in real life, however, if you navigate with a compass, your compass will remain pointing to the same direction throughout your line.

    • @XenoghostTV
      @XenoghostTV 5 років тому +2

      The video isn't specifically about the Mercator projection, dude

    • @brendonholder2522
      @brendonholder2522 5 років тому +4

      Would you happen to know if a reference that explains this in detail?

    • @Banzybanz
      @Banzybanz 5 років тому +4

      @@XenoghostTV Dr. Fry talks about Mercator and why it is used so commonly, especially in navigation.
      But a straight line (a geodesic) in the real world always corresponds to a curved line on a Mercator map. For example, the shortest path between Mumbai and New York passes through western Russia, Swender, Norway and Iceland. If you looked at the Mercator map you'd think it went through Arabia and North Africa, and those are quite far away.
      What lumer2b wrote is correct. Mercator is useful when navigating with a compass.

    • @XenoghostTV
      @XenoghostTV 5 років тому

      @@Banzybanz Okay but that's not the damn point of the video...

    • @DavidMFChapman
      @DavidMFChapman 4 роки тому

      It’s called the rhumb line. It’s not far off the great circle route, with the advantage that you can steer a constant heading.

  • @geryon
    @geryon 5 років тому +717

    Google maps doesn't use Mercator anymore. It's a globe now.

    • @AleksyGrabovski
      @AleksyGrabovski 5 років тому +92

      It never used Mercator projection either. The projection that was used called Web Mercator.

    • @5hirtandtieler
      @5hirtandtieler 5 років тому +71

      Well, sorta…it still uses it for mobile :)

    • @KurtisBlack
      @KurtisBlack 5 років тому +18

      Interesting! You know, I don't think I've ever zoomed out enough to notice that

    • @EebstertheGreat
      @EebstertheGreat 5 років тому +148

      "Web Mercator" is just a shittier Mercator that's easier to compute.

    • @00bean00
      @00bean00 5 років тому +77

      @@AleksyGrabovski omegalul. "It's not English, It's British English!"

  • @djtomoy
    @djtomoy 3 роки тому +24

    Rediscovering some numberphile videos is a reminder of how much of an inspiration classic UA-cam used to be. Numberphile and computerphile really did help me realise I could still learn new things in my late 20s and early 30s 💕

    • @Raison_d-etre
      @Raison_d-etre 8 місяців тому

      You think you learned something, but it's just trivia. Popular science (or math) is not college science (or math).

    • @SP-qi8ur
      @SP-qi8ur 5 місяців тому

      @@Raison_d-etreof course one learns

  • @Zambicus
    @Zambicus 5 років тому +128

    "When I went to university, this is not how I imagined my life would turn out"
    Same...

    • @rickbluecloud531
      @rickbluecloud531 4 роки тому +4

      That's because university is just a continuation of the public school indoctrination. Real scholars can do as well or better apart from the university...especially now that we have internet, and all the knowledge on earth is easily accessible to many millions.

    • @ChangedMyNameFinally69
      @ChangedMyNameFinally69 4 роки тому +7

      @@rickbluecloud531 Stop bringing politics up where it doesn't belong. We get it, school bad because it teaches you about slavery. Shut up already

    • @rickbluecloud531
      @rickbluecloud531 4 роки тому +1

      @@ChangedMyNameFinally69 there are political aspects to this issue that need to be considered if it's going to be correctly understood. And I'll continue sharing whatever I'm led to share by the Spirit. I have no regard for arrogant demands by rude people.

    • @ChangedMyNameFinally69
      @ChangedMyNameFinally69 4 роки тому +3

      @@rickbluecloud531 What political aspects? Them teaching you that slavery happened? I'm genuinely curious.
      What Spirit?

    • @rickbluecloud531
      @rickbluecloud531 4 роки тому +1

      @@ChangedMyNameFinally69 your comment is rather incoherent anyway. Maybe you should proofread and make corrections after you sober up.

  • @micahlong2073
    @micahlong2073 5 років тому +25

    8:51 "Turns out the world is really big"

    • @jlco
      @jlco 4 роки тому +2

      [citation needed]

  • @maigretus1
    @maigretus1 5 років тому +101

    As a retired US Navy officer, this is pretty interesting. It looks like this projection is what you would get by cutting along a rhumb line, which is the line you get by taking a constant compass course from one pole to the other. Or in other words, you cross every meridian at the same angle. The biggest virtue of the Mercator Projection, as Hannah noted is that every rhumb line on a Mercator Projection is a straight line. One of the faults of the Mercator Projection is that great circles (shortest distance between two points on the sphere) are not. I believe that, except for the meridians and the Equator, they are all sine waves on the Mercator projection.
    Would this projection also have great circles as straight lines, if chopped up straight lines?

    • @ejetzer
      @ejetzer 5 років тому +2

      maigretus1 Intuitively, I think any great circle would need to go through the long arm between the spirals, and so would not be a straight line.

    • @davidblackman8015
      @davidblackman8015 5 років тому +3

      You'd get a single line that is infinitely thin for an infinitely long line so it wouldn't preserve angles at all, so great circles couldn't be calculated very easily. The position of an object on the surface of the line (if it has a finite width, so not at the limit where it goes to infinity etc) would be a function of the width of the line and a periodic function. You could produce a version of this with different limits exactly how you describe, you're an engineer, you know this stuff, the limit being that your compass direction to produce an infinite line would be exactly east or west starting at exactly the north or south Pole. Given that this is a right angle, it would take some time to travel it.

    • @johnosguthorpe09
      @johnosguthorpe09 5 років тому

      That is because the earth is flat and they project it onto a 3d surface

    • @johnosguthorpe09
      @johnosguthorpe09 5 років тому

      which is then projected (with a different transform) onto a 2d surface

    • @angelmendez-rivera351
      @angelmendez-rivera351 5 років тому

      OSSSSHHHH The Earth is not flat.

  • @zacharybigger4144
    @zacharybigger4144 5 років тому +8

    It doesn't actually have to be geographically impractical if you're trying to travel in a straight line... We have different projections for small pieces of the globe that are minimally distorted. So if you adjust the "poles" of the projection to a place that'll allow your course to fall along the spiral, you can have a nearly undistorted map of your course the whole way!!

  • @gevillgar
    @gevillgar 5 років тому +395

    Bradey: What is it doing that other maps aren't doing?
    Hannah: ... It's an Euler spiral Bradey, what more do you want?
    Exactly what I was thinking! haha

  • @BrettCoryell
    @BrettCoryell 5 років тому +15

    Map-matically beautiful projection. Love all the Hannah Fry vids. Keep 'em coming.

  • @pierreabbat6157
    @pierreabbat6157 5 років тому +47

    My upcoming math papers are about Euler spirals and transverse Mercator projections, so of course I clicked on this.
    Mercator is NOT projected from the center. That would magnify too much along the meridians. You project from the South Pole, then take the logarithm of the resulting y-coordinate.

  • @frankbruno7122
    @frankbruno7122 4 роки тому +4

    Thank you.. Great fun and great presentation! I'm 62 with two degrees from university.. but I did not major in mathematics or physics.. now I find myself wanting to start over.. this is wonderfully engaging.
    Frank from Boulder, Colorado, USA

  • @ManifoldSky
    @ManifoldSky 5 років тому +16

    The example given evinces an interesting ingrained geometrical and psychological bias that, if bypassed, increases the utility of using an Euler spiral. As can be seen in the physical globe ball that was cut up, the area of greatest utility (at least for use in mapping) occurs at the centers of each spiral (the start and end cuts). Conversely, the these are the areas of least utility for most uses on a map. But it is oddly ingrained psychologically to think we need to start the process at the poles. But clearly this is not the case. If, instead, one starts the cut in the center of North America, or the Eurasian land mass, and pick a point precisely so that portion of the cutting that becomes the long connecting arm between the spirals rests in the middle of the ocean (or some other arbitrarily chose point of least interest). one gets an Euler spiral projection of greater utility.

  • @niclaskristiansen9533
    @niclaskristiansen9533 5 років тому +38

    YES, one of my favorite people on this channel!

  • @Jamdog95
    @Jamdog95 5 років тому +28

    Cheeky 1:09! The position of the stalk is just perfect 🍊 😂

    • @zapdude1
      @zapdude1 5 років тому +8

      Naked Orange Peel man is same proportions as naked Orange Man according to Stormy...

  • @maxgusatz5644
    @maxgusatz5644 5 років тому +1

    Awesome on Tomorrow's World tonight Hannah. Such great memories of a real favourite childhood programme.

  • @Hermanhusband
    @Hermanhusband 4 роки тому

    Charming and very practical! Spirals from different starting points provide multi-plex code potential placing place names opposite other place names to make word list. Change angle of attack and point of first scissoring into the blow up globe and you can develop unique word order sequence. Code key would be 4 items: Long-Lat of start, angle of attack, choose your first place word, such as "Chicago", and finally which way to amble, either left or right (poleward or spinward are obviated by initial attack and can't be used as constant)

  • @danwhiteman9210
    @danwhiteman9210 5 років тому +12

    Before just now the Dymaxion map was my favorite projection, but now the Euler Spiral projection takes the cake.

    • @KnakuanaRka
      @KnakuanaRka 5 років тому

      Dan Whiteman I prefer the Winkel-Tripel projection (or however you spell it); way less distortion than Mercator, but still familiar enough to be easily used.

  • @JJ-kl7eq
    @JJ-kl7eq 5 років тому +335

    Euranges. Yummmmm.

    • @trashmeme2328
      @trashmeme2328 5 років тому +3

      Eurth

    • @trashmeme2328
      @trashmeme2328 5 років тому +3

      Eurquator

    • @trashmeme2328
      @trashmeme2328 5 років тому +2

      Speurl

    • @trashmeme2328
      @trashmeme2328 5 років тому +2

      I'm using a Euler to measure this sentence

    • @draevonmay7704
      @draevonmay7704 5 років тому

      Acella, Multiverse Dweller
      Do you know how to pronounce Euler?
      But everything you’ve said makes no sense.

  • @leonjones7120
    @leonjones7120 2 роки тому

    I read about this ages ago. Its been on my mind when I had a conversation with someone about globe maps in a flat plane. thanks!

  • @IsraRM
    @IsraRM Рік тому +1

    Great video! I'd like to see another one like this, explaining Euler's spiral in the context of Fresnel diffraction.

  • @robertschlesinger1342
    @robertschlesinger1342 5 років тому +3

    Nice video on map projections. Of course cartographers have several others used over-the-years, and for various applications. Thanks for the arXiv link as well.

  • @zambo6453
    @zambo6453 5 років тому +3

    interestingly my mum always pre-peeled my oranges for school in such a spiral, only peeling the orange rind and leaving the pith intact, and leaving the rind just attached by a little bit at the base and wrapped around to preserve the freshness. I also commonly see people peel apples in spirals like this to bake - I think it just feels right as somehow there is less resistance to the peeling motion when you follow this path because it lies flat against the fruit instead of bending up and fighting against you

  • @bernardo013
    @bernardo013 5 років тому

    Although this is to be expected, it was neat to see [in practice] that the Equator is contained along the path between each of the two spirals. Super cool!

  • @user-kq2lk6uj3v
    @user-kq2lk6uj3v 5 років тому +25

    We got ourselves a new mathematical object: New Zealand-preserving map :D

  • @henryseg
    @henryseg 5 років тому +5

    I looked into this question of getting the Mercator projection by projecting a light - in order to do it you'd have to do some funny business on the map to the cylinder. The problem is that the Mercator projection involves a natural log for the y-coordinate, while projecting light rays is all intersections of lines with spheres and cones, which can only get you algebraic maps.

    • @peterdenner3447
      @peterdenner3447 2 роки тому

      Absolutely right - what Hannah describes would give you the perspective cylindrical projection, not the Mercator.

  • @suleimanmustafa1473
    @suleimanmustafa1473 5 років тому +6

    This helps explain is the reason why countries closer to the equator appear smaller compared to those closer to the poles

  • @brendarua01
    @brendarua01 5 років тому

    This is wonderfully done. It demonstrates that every type of map has it's pluses and minuses.
    I bet you could do a great presentation of how the requirement for spherical trig in celestial navigation, yielding a great circle route, is a proof of the round Earth. Plane geometry, the option for a flat earth fails; it would get you lost if not killed. It would be enlightening to discuss how each can be treated as a testable hypothesis which models a world view.

  • @fireballninja01
    @fireballninja01 5 років тому

    I wish y’all showed a simulated product with a ton of spirals, but thanks so much!!! Awesome video

  • @luismijangos7844
    @luismijangos7844 5 років тому +83

    Hannah is amazingly intelligent and super lovable. Amazing math.

    • @paulkita
      @paulkita 5 років тому +27

      You spelled mouth wrong :o

    • @marko514
      @marko514 5 років тому +4

      Pawel Kita looool

  • @jaybenton7716
    @jaybenton7716 5 років тому +464

    I thought it was pronounced "oiler"?

  • @ghollisjr
    @ghollisjr 4 роки тому +46

    Hannah's voice is perfect for ASMR.

    • @owenhunt
      @owenhunt 4 роки тому +6

      OOh bro, it's off to the Gulags with you.

    • @owenhunt
      @owenhunt 4 роки тому +2

      @@dixztube Like. I think IQ videos are supposed to animate us to life. Nobody should be thinking ASMR on a Geophysics video.

  • @rand0mn0
    @rand0mn0 7 місяців тому

    Very well done, and down-to-Earth. Lively and fun, and technically accurate. Euler, as in Beuller! That's great!

  • @Jonescan55
    @Jonescan55 4 роки тому +7

    Living in Canada and having access to roads that travel directly north to as near the pole as possible, there are deviations in the route which are called correctionals. They are the euhler equivalent of the orange peel or strip map created in the video. I prefer the Mercator map. It spreads out the imperfections evenly and appears to give a lesser distortion.
    Thank you for your efforts to explain a difficult subject in an entertaining way

  • @c.contrafactum584
    @c.contrafactum584 5 років тому +611

    Send the orange man to the hydraulic press channel, and we'll see if he'll still have a positive gausian curve number

    • @TheJbertolino
      @TheJbertolino 5 років тому +5

      Yes!

    • @RogerBarraud
      @RogerBarraud 5 років тому +11

      The trick is knowing when to stop...
      :-/

    • @aldobernaltvbernal8745
      @aldobernaltvbernal8745 5 років тому +4

      Cataphractos Contrafactum this may be a joke, but it will.

    • @MattH-wg7ou
      @MattH-wg7ou 4 роки тому +13

      "Velcome to heeoodlraawlik plress channel...."
      Or "velcome to beyond depressed" (Beyond the Press, their second channel)
      "Vat de faak!?"

    • @Ardjano234
      @Ardjano234 4 роки тому

      it will have tears and wrinkles because it has to go somewhere

  • @KipIngram
    @KipIngram 2 місяці тому

    Her dad did it because that's the kind of things dads do. Childhood is a magical time, and encouraging that sense of wonder in your kids is a fantastic thing.

  • @stevet6676
    @stevet6676 5 років тому

    Great video, math rules! Just finished reading "Hello World" and completely enjoyed it. I'm sure the book will inspire some young people to study math and pursue math careers. Thank you.

  • @chesh1re_cat
    @chesh1re_cat 4 роки тому +24

    *Playing with trash on the floor*
    "It's worth it for the mathematical beauty!"

  • @charliemetzler
    @charliemetzler 5 років тому +4

    Check out Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion map or Fuller map is a projection of a world map onto the surface of an icosahedron, which can be unfolded and flattened to two dimensions. The flat map is heavily interrupted in order to preserve shapes and sizes.

    • @Unmannedair
      @Unmannedair 4 роки тому

      actually there is still distortion. The distortion is minimized and localized to the centroid of each facet in the icosahedron. It's flatter, but not on the same scale an this euler coil.

  • @IMVoxerus
    @IMVoxerus 2 роки тому

    With guidelines in the longitudinal direction for visual queues and cutting it at the equator to make two circles and exact spacing of the gaps between the spirals this would be a fairly functional map. That is pretty awesome. You should totally use a computer program to make one perfectly and see how it presents.

  • @greghilliard7641
    @greghilliard7641 2 роки тому

    I really love the way you present and the fact that you love what you do - I could listen for ages. Week don e

  • @TheOfficialCzex
    @TheOfficialCzex 5 років тому +4

    Very informative! I love map projection mathematics.

  • @Dragondave17real
    @Dragondave17real 4 роки тому +224

    If Hannah Fry was my math lecturer, I would take extra lessons.

    • @dustt314
      @dustt314 4 роки тому +2

      Jam Kon much...

  • @boredgrass
    @boredgrass 2 роки тому

    For me this is the most beautiful video about science I know.

  • @jackallread
    @jackallread 4 роки тому

    Very nice!!
    Great job Hanah!!! Thanks

  • @user-cn5pm7zg1u
    @user-cn5pm7zg1u 5 років тому +15

    YES HANNAH FRY!!!

  • @imscott7
    @imscott7 5 років тому +5

    You had me at “mathematically beautiful” ❤️

  • @PeterCawdron
    @PeterCawdron 5 років тому

    That's pretty cool in that it separates into the two hemispheres quite nicely

  • @standardannonymousguy
    @standardannonymousguy 5 років тому

    Great video, thank you for sharing your idea with us. On a side note, I as well, always used to peel my grapefruits a in a spiral way!

  • @sickerpuppies
    @sickerpuppies 5 років тому +4

    This was the purest, and honestly beautiful thing I have seen on UA-cam in quite a while. I was captivated.

  • @bobstreet2491
    @bobstreet2491 5 років тому +22

    I've long harboured an urge to do exactly this. Hannah has saved me a lot of time and eventual disappointment with the outcome. I'm not sure if I feel relieved or cheated.

    • @courtney-ray
      @courtney-ray 5 років тому +1

      bob street well you could probably manage a much neater (flatter) one if you’re willing to devote the time to cutting the strips with infinitesimally narrow widths!

  • @FLS96
    @FLS96 2 роки тому

    I like the phrasing "peel the surface of the Earth to make a map". The orange analogy is super easy to understand!

  • @teixeiradasilva6299
    @teixeiradasilva6299 5 років тому

    To see people so inspired makes me happy.

  • @MrGryph78
    @MrGryph78 4 роки тому +6

    1:09 oh look at his little "stalk" 😍

  • @RonJohn63
    @RonJohn63 5 років тому +3

    2:51 That form of projection was on one of the US evening news shows in the 1960s and 70s. I think CBS.

  • @jamiehess754
    @jamiehess754 4 роки тому

    As an astrophysicist-in-bloom, I got misty-eyed at this video. Such beauty!

  • @hannescamitz8575
    @hannescamitz8575 4 роки тому

    At my kids school they have a map of the world which is flat, but it also got a logarithmic scale at the bottom too calculate the real distances based on the curvature.
    So at the equator it's more or less 1:1 and at the north or south pole you've got quite different ruler to use.

  • @bgill7475
    @bgill7475 4 роки тому +12

    4:01 I feel so bad for him.

  • @thomasborgsmidt9801
    @thomasborgsmidt9801 5 років тому +536

    Euler is pronounced: Oiler. Preferably with an Australian accent.
    Just for Your informationtion.

    • @pmam1968
      @pmam1968 5 років тому +38

      Thomas Borgsmidt And Fresnel is pronounced “Freynel”, IIRC.

    • @AiZeno
      @AiZeno 5 років тому +10

      Thanks. I was pronouncing it as "Ew-ler" xD

    • @BaronSamedi1959
      @BaronSamedi1959 5 років тому +18

      Which proves that Australia does not exist. Or so I learned somewhere on the Internet..

    • @Kori114
      @Kori114 4 роки тому +5

      Yeah, exactly what I was gonna say.

    • @krakenmetzger
      @krakenmetzger 4 роки тому +4

      oiahlah

  • @user-my9if4dz6q
    @user-my9if4dz6q 4 роки тому +1

    i really enjoyed this one. thanks for that

  • @charliemetzler
    @charliemetzler 3 роки тому +1

    You missed the "Dymaxion Map," the Fuller Projection Map - the only flat map of the entire surface of the Earth which reveals our planet as one island in one ocean, without any visually obvious distortion of the relative shapes and sizes of the land areas, and without splitting any continents. It was developed by R. Buckminster Fuller who "By 1954, after working on the map for several decades," finally realized a satisfactory deck plan of Spaceship Earth.

    • @hareecionelson5875
      @hareecionelson5875 3 роки тому

      Ordered one off amazon a couple days ago, I love it, I like flattening it out imagining the migration of humans out of Africa ~60,000 years ago

  • @Chewychaca
    @Chewychaca 5 років тому +82

    I want a video about what the animator has to go through lol

  • @agmessier
    @agmessier 5 років тому +7

    I'm pretty sure the "shining a light" description is not how the Mercator projection is defined. According to that, the poles would be an infinite distance from the equator, and from the Mercator maps I've seen, you can see too much of Antarctica and the northern boundaries of Canada for that to be the case.

    • @santiagogonzales9487
      @santiagogonzales9487 5 років тому

      It's a simplification the video is short

    • @doku7335
      @doku7335 5 років тому

      It is cut at some areas around poles, so it doesn't get to the "infinite distance" part. It just gets to the "far enough that the distortion is really bad" part

    • @agmessier
      @agmessier 5 років тому

      @@doku7335 Nope. I actually looked up the definition of the Mercator projection since this discussion. See my previous response that describes the difference in the trigonometry.

  • @hammettl
    @hammettl 4 роки тому

    Love it. Great look at radical map projections..

  • @KplusU
    @KplusU 5 років тому +1

    I appreciate you so much Hannah Fry!!!!!!!!!

  • @onetwoBias
    @onetwoBias 4 роки тому +13

    Oh lord yes, talk nerdy to me! I could binge videos of Hannah Fry all day long, she's a star!

  • @zangeh
    @zangeh 5 років тому +62

    "yuuler"
    :[ Hannah why

  • @gendoikari6062
    @gendoikari6062 4 роки тому +1

    I've never seen map projections that beautiful...!

  • @hannahblalock
    @hannahblalock 5 років тому

    Fascinating! Thanks for the video!

  • @Wishfetcher
    @Wishfetcher 4 роки тому +7

    Today I discovered the pattern I've always doodled is actually a beautiful mathematical shape.

  • @anuzis
    @anuzis 5 років тому +3

    Math question: what's the probability the stem position at 1:10 is purely coincidence given its surface area relative to the orange? A) less than 0.01, B) 0.01 to 0.03 C) 0.03 to 0.05, or D) over 0.05

  • @jazzsoul69
    @jazzsoul69 4 роки тому +1

    I really loved this video !

  • @burkhardstackelberg1203
    @burkhardstackelberg1203 3 роки тому +2

    I love the idea of sacrificing practicability over mathematical beauty :-D
    Another map I like is the Riemann projection, as it preserves angles and always maps circles and lines to circles and lines.

  • @benjamingrant4733
    @benjamingrant4733 4 роки тому +71

    Thanks, Hannah, your mispronunciation has reminded me that I’ve got to get an Eul change for my car today…

    • @TARS..
      @TARS.. 4 роки тому +4

      A yuul change

  • @Astrobrant2
    @Astrobrant2 5 років тому +7

    I never would have figured that I would get one of my best laughs in a long time by watching a math video.

  • @Toon81ehv
    @Toon81ehv 4 роки тому +1

    I love that nerdy grin at 7:58!

  • @albertbatfinder5240
    @albertbatfinder5240 5 років тому +1

    “We’ve only got this room booked for another hour.”
    Steady my trembling soul.