zorancodes on Instagram: "The Mercator projection process, a mathematical method used to map the surface of a three-dimensional sphere (the Earth) onto a two-dimensional plane. Specifically, it illustrates a cylindrical projection, where the Earth's surface is projected onto a cylinder tangent to the equator. Because the Earth is a non-Euclidean sphere, it cannot be flattened without distortion; in this case, the mapping preserves angles and shapes locally (making it conformal) but significantly