Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Cyrestis, of Africa, Asia, and Australasia, having wings with black lines on a white background; a mapwing.

plural of map butterfly

(mathematics) The intersection of a periodic orbit in the state space of a continuous dynamical system with a certain lower-dimensional subspace (the Poincaré section), transversal to the flow of the system.

A map of a world; a cartographic representation, a projection done to scale, representative of a planet's surface.

(mathematics) A function between two sets A and B, with the former being a subset of the latter, that maps elements from A to the corresponding elements of B (𝜄:A→B,𝜄(x)=x).

An earlier form of navigation mesh used in robotics.

(computer graphics) A panorama consisting of six textures projected onto the sides of a cube that is usually centred on the camera or viewpoint.

(mathematics) A discrete-time dynamical system that maps one point to another on the plane, known for exhibiting chaotic behavior.

(differential geometry) Synonym of transition function.

(differential geometry) Synonym of coordinate chart.