The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

On a Gall-Peters map, Africa looms large, while Europe shrinks to a more proportionate size. This view challenges long-standing visual biases ingrained by the Mercator projection.

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Maps of Southern California show where the Palisades Fire, Eaton Fire, the Hughes Fire near Castaic, and several other blazes have scorched tens of thousands of acres.

Then, we estimate the rendered view distortion based on the local video characteristics. The estimated rendered view distortion is used in the rate-distortion optimized mode selection for depth map ...