-
stereographic projection map, a
loxodrome is an
equiangular spiral whose center is the
north or
south pole. All
loxodromes spiral from one pole to the other...
- In navigation, a
loxodrome or
rhumb line is a path
whose bearing, the
angle between its
tangent and due North, is constant.
Loxodromes project to straight...
- /a},\,}
where the
parameter a
measures the "tightness" of the
loxodrome. Thus
loxodromes correspond to
logarithmic spirals.
These spirals intersect radial...
-
normal aspect maps
trajectories of
constant bearing (called
rhumb lines or
loxodromes) on a
sphere to
straight lines on the map, and is thus
uniquely suited...
-
lunar determination of
Greenwich time. In navigation, a
rhumb line (or
loxodrome) is a line
crossing all
meridians of
longitude at the same angle, i.e...
-
rhumb chart] is
wrongly applied to the sea-charts of this period,
since a
loxodrome gives an
accurate course only when the
chart is
drawn on a
suitable projection...
- no
projection was used in portolans, and
those straight lines could be
loxodromes only if the
chart was
drawn on a
suitable projection. As Leo
Bagrow states:...
- \cos \theta \,{\bigr )}.}
Clelia curve Loxodrome Another family of
spherical spirals is the
rhumb lines or
loxodromes, that
project to
straight lines on the...
-
multiple names:
authors list (link) Weintrit, Adam; Kopcz,
Piotr (2014).
Loxodrome (Rhumb Line),
Orthodrome (Great Circle),
Great Ellipse and
Geodetic Line...
-
transformation will be
conjugate to a
transform that
moves all
points along such
loxodromes. If we take the one-parameter
subgroup generated by any
loxodromic Möbius...
