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  2. Stereographic projection - Wikipedia

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    A two-dimensional coordinate system on the stereographic plane is an alternative setting for spherical analytic geometry instead of spherical polar coordinates or three-dimensional cartesian coordinates. This is the spherical analog of the Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane.

  3. Universal polar stereographic coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    The universal polar stereographic (UPS) coordinate system is used in conjunction with the universal transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system to locate positions on the surface of the Earth. Like the UTM coordinate system, the UPS coordinate system uses a metric-based cartesian grid laid out on a conformally projected surface.

  4. n-sphere - Wikipedia

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    The inverse transformation, from polyspherical coordinates to Cartesian coordinates, is determined by grouping nodes. Every pair of nodes having a common parent can be converted from a mixed polar–Cartesian coordinate system to a Cartesian coordinate system using the above formulas for a splitting.

  5. Stereographic map projection - Wikipedia

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    The stereographic projection was likely known in its polar aspect to the ancient Egyptians, though its invention is often credited to Hipparchus, who was the first Greek to use it. [ citation needed ] Its oblique aspect was used by Greek Mathematician Theon of Alexandria in the fourth century, and its equatorial aspect was used by Arab ...

  6. Del in cylindrical and spherical coordinates - Wikipedia

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    This article uses the standard notation ISO 80000-2, which supersedes ISO 31-11, for spherical coordinates (other sources may reverse the definitions of θ and φ): . The polar angle is denoted by [,]: it is the angle between the z-axis and the radial vector connecting the origin to the point in question.

  7. List of coordinate charts - Wikipedia

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    Hyperspherical coordinates. Sphere S 2: Spherical coordinates. Stereographic chart Central projection chart Axial projection chart Mercator chart. 3-sphere S 3: Polar chart. Stereographic chart Mercator chart. Euclidean spaces: n-dimensional Euclidean space E n: Cartesian chart: Euclidean plane E 2: Bipolar coordinates. Biangular coordinates ...

  8. Polar coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    Points in the polar coordinate system with pole O and polar axis L. In green, the point with radial coordinate 3 and angular coordinate 60 degrees or (3, 60°). In blue, the point (4, 210°). In mathematics, the polar coordinate system specifies a given point in a plane by using a distance and an angle as its two coordinates. These are

  9. List of common coordinate transformations - Wikipedia

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    Let (x, y, z) be the standard Cartesian coordinates, and (ρ, θ, φ) the spherical coordinates, with θ the angle measured away from the +Z axis (as , see conventions in spherical coordinates). As φ has a range of 360° the same considerations as in polar (2 dimensional) coordinates apply whenever an arctangent of it is taken. θ has a range ...