Help!
I am looking for a pattern of segments (pointy ovals all joined up) that you cut out and can fix top and bottom to make a ball, like a globe. I need it to teach a class tomorrow and no matter what I google I cannot get a simple outline to copy. I tried to make one myself and it came out crazy lopsided…
Could anyone help me out here? Thanks in advance.
Globe: Make your own
Has a downloadable template of your connected pointy ovals.
Googling ‘globe projection template’ found it.
Thank you very much! I could NOT get the right combination of words to produce a template. I got lots of instructions for much more complicated balls but this is going to be a kindergarten class project.
I appreciate it.
H.B., you might take note that the template provided features a 16th century notion of the world that doesn’t match up with our current knowledge of the configuration of the world’s landmasses.
Here are a bunch more. These have the current shapes, but are rather small. Still, you can save the image and put it in a document and print it.
Alternatively, blow up a balloon and papier mache it. Then pop the balloon.
Yeah, but most balloons aren’t even close to spherical when they’re blown up, and you’d have to time popping it fairly carefully so the papier-mache was sufficiently hard not to collapse, but not so much as to have stuck to the balloon firmly.
If that makes any sense.
If one is not too set on sphericity, the same website that WhyNot linked to in post #5 has downloadable images for polyhedral pseudoglobes that include tabs for gluing, and thus may be easier to construct than the “pointy oval” type.
The icosahedrons seem to be a good compromise between sphericity and (kitchen-table) manufacturability, and the high-resolution color images look good. I’m tempted to try to build the “Gnomonic projection on an icosahedron, poles on faces, color-coded topography, original elevation data by USGS’s EROS Data Center” (warning: PDF) myself.