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2 unusual facts about Tissot's indicatrix


Indicatrix

Tissot's indicatrix, which describes and visualizes the distortion of a map

Tissot's indicatrix

Tissot’s indicatrix (Tissot indicatrix, Tissot’s ellipse, Tissot ellipse, ellipse of distortion) is a mathematical contrivance presented by French mathematician Nicolas Auguste Tissot in 1859 and 1871 in order to characterize distortions due to map projection.


Les Ponts-de-Martel

The village was the original home of the Swiss watchmaker Mathey-Tissot.

Muttonheads

Jérôme Tissot better known by his stage name Muttonheads (born 3 May 1976) is a French DJ and producer of French electronic music described as French Touch (French house music) with funk and Italo disco.

Nicolas Hayek

Hayek played a decisive role in the recovery of the Swatch Group with its watch brands Swatch, Blancpain, Omega, Longines, Rado, Tissot, Certina, Mido, Hamilton, Pierre Balmain, Calvin Klein, Flik Flak, Breguet and Lanco.

Samuel-Auguste Tissot

Samuel Auguste André David Tissot (20 March 1728, Grancy - 13 June 1797, Lausanne) was a notable 18th century Swiss physician.

The authority with which the work was subsequently treated — Tissot's arguments were even acknowledged and echoed by luminaries such as Kant and Voltaire — arguably turned the perception of masturbation in Western medicine over the next two centuries into that of a debilitating illness.

Winkel tripel projection

Goldberg and Gott show that the Winkel tripel fares well against several other projections analyzed against their measures of distortion, producing small distance errors, small combinations of Tissot indicatrix ellipticity and area errors, and the smallest skewness of any of the projections they studied.


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