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Imagine a plane being placed against (tangent to) a globe. If a light source inside the globe projects the graticule onto the plane the result would be a planar, or azimuthal, map projection. If the imaginary light is inside the globe a Gnomonic projection results, if the light is antipodal a Sterographic, and if at infinity, an Orthographic.
