In case of a conic projection the surface of the sphere is mapped to a (secant, tangent) rotation cone which then will be unwinded onto the plane. Thereby the projection axis is equal to the axis of the rotation cone.
The conic projection is a true projection. Conformal, equidistant and equal-area conic projections can be constructed (see e.g. [3] under literature).
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