Jeffrey Ambroziak

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rdf:langString Jeffrey Russell Ambroziak (born November 12, 1966) is an American cartographer, inventor, and attorney. He developed the "Ambroziak Infinite Perspective Projection," a technique for creating three-dimensional maps. Ambroziak was born in Okinawa, Japan, and educated atPrinceton University and William and Mary Law School. Priorto law school, Ambroziak worked as a software engineer for Andersen Consulting and Fannie Mae. In 1997, along with his father andbrother, he founded Ambroziak Third Dimension Technologies, Inc. withthe purpose of developing geospatial visualization software.Ambroziak co-invented the "Ambroziak Infinite Perspective Projection"(AIPP), a map projection method used for three-dimensional stereovisualization of geographic data. The AIPP allows viewers to move theirviewpoint about a map while minimizing distortion, and scales thevertical exaggeration depending on the viewer's distance from the map. Three-dimensional maps created with the AIPP have been used widely,and were featured in a book co-authored by Ambroziak (Infinite Perspectives: Two Thousand Years of Three-Dimensional Mapmaking,Princeton Architectural Press, 1999), and in his exhibitions at institutionssuch as the Peabody Museum of Natural History. Ambroziak is a patent attorney specializing in intellectualproperty matters. He has been employed as an attorney at such companies as Walker Digital.