# Class: Orthographic

## Highcharts. Orthographic

#### new Orthographic()

  The orthographic projection is an azimuthal perspective projection, projecting the Earth's surface from an infinite distance to a plane. It gives the illusion of a three-dimensional globe.

  Its disadvantage is that it fails to render the whole world in one view. However, since the distortion is small at the center of the view, it is great at rendering limited areas of the globe, or at showing the positions of areas on the globe.