A Globe Cut Open to Explain Map Distortion
A physical globe experiment becomes a clean graphic explainer about why every flat map trades one kind of accuracy for another.
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Why it works
The first 33 seconds make a curved-surface constraint tangible through a real prop before shots 24–36 name it. Shot 48 gives the viewer a clean, same-scale comparison at the v1 record's strongest replay span, 2:38.4–2:42.0. The prop returns in shots 84–91 before shot 92 turns the argument into a resource and fades from frame 8572.
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