it’s impossible to represent a round object on a flat surface without imposing some major distortions. But the concept has perhaps never been as clearly or amusingly demonstrated as in this stop-motion animation from 1947. https://aeon.co/videos/there-are-many-ways-to-make-a-flat-map-of-the-world-each-of-them-a-unique-distortion
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