- In cartography, a Tissot's
indicatrix (Tissot
indicatrix, Tissot's ellipse,
Tissot ellipse,
ellipse of distortion) (plural: "Tissot's indicatrices") is...
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Indicatrix may
refer to:
Dupin indicatrix, a
conic section which describes the
local shape of a
surface Tissot's
indicatrix,
which describes and visualizes...
- In
differential geometry, the
Dupin indicatrix is a
method for
characterising the
local shape of a surface. Draw a
plane parallel to the
tangent plane...
- In
differential geometry, the
tangent indicatrix of a
closed space curve is a
curve on the unit
sphere intimately related to the
curvature of the original...
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varies noticeably, it can be
accounted for as the
scale factor. Tissot's
indicatrix is
often used to
illustrate the
variation of
point scale across a map...
- of
showing the
distortion in projections. Like Tissot's
indicatrix, the Goldberg-Gott
indicatrix is
based on infinitesimals, and
depicts flexion and skewness...
- of
showing the
distortion inherent in a
projection is to use Tissot's
indicatrix.
Nicolas Tissot noted that the
scale factors at a
point on a map projection...
- In
crystal optics, the index ellipsoid (also
known as the optical
indicatrix or
sometimes as the dielectric ellipsoid) is a
geometric construction which...
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directions are the same as the
asymptotes of the
hyperbola of the
Dupin indicatrix through a
hyperbolic point, or the
unique asymptote through a parabolic...
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against their measures of distortion,
producing minimal distance,
Tissot indicatrix ellipticity and area errors, and the
least skew of any of the projections...
