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Everything about UV mapping
3D model's surface projected to a 2D image
UV mapping in 3D graphics is a process for texture mapping a 3D model by projecting the model's surface coordinates onto a 2D image. The letters "U" and "V" denote the axes of the 2D texture because "X", "Y", and "Z" are already used to denote the axes of the 3D object in model space, while "W" is used in calculating quaternion rotations, a common operation in computer graphics. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: UV mappingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Compositional Mapping of Europa Using MCMC Modeling of Near-IR VLT/SPHERE and Galileo/NIMS ObservationsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Stereographic projection techniques for geologists and civil engineersThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Social Mobilization and the Networked Public Sphere: Mapping the SOPA-PIPA DebateCited 92 times
- Go sideways: Texture mappingA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Glossary of computer graphicsA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Social Mobilization and the Networked Public Sphere: Mapping the SOPA-PIPA Debate
Coordinate Transformation on a Sphere Using Conformal Mapping*
Flow past a single stationary sphere, 2. Regime mapping and effect of external disturbances
Chiral Light Emission from a Sphere Revealed by Nanoscale Relative-Phase Mapping
Mapping the glassy dynamics of soft spheres onto hard-sphere behavior
Mapping the Australian Networked Public Sphere
Examining libraries as public sphere institutions: Mapping questions, methods, theories, findings, and research gaps
Poincaré sphere mapping by Mueller matrices
🆕 Influential since 2022
Compositional Mapping of Europa Using MCMC Modeling of Near-IR VLT/SPHERE and Galileo/NIMS Observations
Global Modeling of Ganymede's Surface Composition: Near‐IR Mapping From VLT/SPHERE
Dynamic Projection Mapping for Robust Sphere Posture Tracking Using Uniform/Biased Circumferential Markers
Proteome Mapping of the Human Pancreatic Islet Microenvironment Reveals Endocrine–Exocrine Signaling Sphere of Influence
Mapping structured Laguerre–Gaussian beam states onto the orbital Poincaré sphere in the form of controllable spatial trajectories
📚 Books worth reading
Stereographic projection techniques for geologists and civil engineersRichard J. Lisle · 2004
Degree theory for equivariant maps, the general S1-actionJorge Ize · 1992- 📕Degree and point-inverses of mapping on spheresMatti Honkapohja · 1969
- 📕The sphere as a quantitative map symbolWalter Forest Howard · 1967
Harmonic and minimal mapsTóth, Gábor Ph. D. · 1984- 📕Description and explanation of the mercator map of the starry heavensCroswell, William · 1810
Katip Celebi'nin Esas Kitab-i Cihannümasi ve Cografya Tarihi'ndeki Yeri / The Original Kitab-i Cihannuma of Hadji Khalifa and His Position in the History of GeographyKâtip Çelebi · 2013- 📕Kitâb-ı Cihânnümâ li-Kâtib ÇelebiKâtip Çelebi · 2009
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