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	Dymaxion map - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dymaxion map of the Earth is a projection of a global map onto the surface of a three-dimensional regular solid, which can then be unfolded to a net in many different ways and flattened to form a two-dimensional map which retains most of the relative proportional integrity of the spherical globe map.
		Fuller's Dymaxion map has many advantages over all of the other types of projections that render the 3D spherical globe as a 2D flat map.
		The Dymaxion map does not perpetuate the cultural bias that is part of all other world map projections.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dymaxion_Map (473 words)

	Tiny Mix Tapes
		Dymaxion are primarily sample-based, a fact given away as much by the crackling vinyl as by the looping snare beats and oscilloscope bleeps.
		True, when Dymaxion are at their most vivid, you picture a caricatured, dreamlike world of men in trench coats, fedoras and sunglasses exchanging briefcases, eye-patched villains racing along Californian bluffs in fl, gizmo-laden Aston Martins, and disheveled mad scientists throwing large switches and animating limbs.
		But it is essential to remember that Dymaxion were not intended to be taken in such large doses, and these facts in no way diminish the importance of the material presented here.
	www.tinymixtapes.com /musicreviews/d/dymaxion.htm (479 words)

	Dymaxion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term dymaxion was coined by inventor Buckminster Fuller as a compound of the words "DYnamic", "MAXimum" and "tensION".
		Fuller's Dymaxion house actually took three forms: the 4-D Dymaxion House model of 1927, the 1944 corrugated silo Dymaxion Deployment Unit developed in association with Butler Manufacturing Company, and the hamburger-shaped 1944 Dymaxion Dwelling Unit (or Wichita House) developed with Beech Aircraft.
		The Dymaxion map is an alternate projection system designed to minimize distortion and display no breaks in continental contours.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dymaxion (194 words)

	Fuller Projection Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The projection used for this world map, also known as the "Dymaxion Map," was created by Buckminster Fuller, distinguished mathematician, inventor and 20th century visionary.
		The Dymaxion Map is the only flat map of the entire surface of the earth that reveals our planet as it really is an island in one ocean without any visible distortion of the relative shapes and sizes of the land areas, and without splitting any continents.
		The word Dymaxion, Spaceship Earth and the Fuller Projection design are trademarks of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, Sebastopol, California, USA.
	www.bfi.org /map.htm (673 words)

	Dymaxion map -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was created by (United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983)) Buckminster Fuller, and patented by him in 1946, the patent application showing a projection onto a (Click link for more info and facts about cuboctahedron) cuboctahedron.
		The 1954 version published by Fuller under the title "The AirOcean World Map" used a slightly modified but mostly regular (Any polyhedron having twenty plane faces) icosahedron as the base for the projection, and this is the version most commonly referred to today.
		Fuller's (Click link for more info and facts about Dymaxion) Dymaxion map has many advantages over all of the other types of projections that render the 3D spherical globe as a 2D flat map.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/dy/dymaxion_map.htm (381 words)

	Dymaxion
		However a British auto enthusiast flew to Chicargo to examine the Dymaxion car and when he was injured and his driver killed after the Dymaxion collided with another car the headlines in the press referred to the vehicle as a "freak car" and undermined its 3-wheeled design.
		The Dymaxion Car Three was featured in the finale of Edward Hungerford's "Wings of a Century" pageant at the 1934 Century of Progress Exposition.
		The design of the Dymaxion cars was one of the biggest break throughs in automobile design since the car had originated some fifty years earlier.
	www.3wheelers.com /dymaxion.html (379 words)

	R. Buckminster Fuller / Inventor, Designer, Architect, Theorist (1895-1983) - Design/Designer Information
		In 1928 he had conceived a flying car with inflatable wings which was modified in subsequent drawings into a streamlined road vehicle the rear of which would rise in an aerodynamic lift to ‘fly’ steered by a rudder as the front rolled.
		As relationships between the superpowers fluctuated during the war, Fuller became convinced of the need to develop a world map on which the whole globe could be seen at once; a map better suited than the standard Mercator Projection to the representation of global relationships.
		The Dymaxion World Map was his attempt to resolve the problem of how best to represent a spherical world on a flat surface, with true scale, true direction and correct configuration.
	www.designmuseum.org /design/index.php?id=105 (2430 words)

	The Dymaxion House at Henry Ford Museum - History
		Dymaxion Houses never went into production and none were ever sold as originally envisioned.
		The prototype Dymaxion House that was part of the Graham family home is the only Dymaxion House ever to have been occupied.
		The closest thing to a neighborhood of Dymaxion Houses like that illustrated in the model of a Dymaxion community were the Dymaxion Deployment Units manufactured during World War II by Buckminster Fuller for the U. Army.
	www.hfmgv.org /dymaxion/faq/faq8.html (121 words)

	Dymaxion Dwelling Machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Dymaxion Dwelling Machine was a greatly improved version of the 4-D House.
		There were 2 bedrooms, 2 Dymaxion Bathrooms, a kitchen, an entry hall, and a living room.
		All the parts could be packed into a 300 cubic ft cylinder, so that the Dymaxion Dwelling Machine could be delivered anywhere by helicopter.
	www.nous.org.uk /DDM.html (476 words)

	The Dymaxion. Richard Buckminster Fuller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The corporation was set up to develop and manufacture three streamlined prototype cars that were based on his Dymaxion design.
		The Dymaxion was inspired by aircraft designs at the time.
		Fuller claimed that the Dymaxion of 1934 could accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour in three seconds and had a fuel consumption of 30 miles per gallon.
	www.design-technology.org /page2.htm (90 words)

	Dymaxion timeline
		Dawes suggests building a prototype of Fuller's Dymaxion House for the Chicago World's Fair, asking Fuller for an estimate of cost.
		He engages a crew of six world-class craftsmen out of a thousand applicants to work on the project under the direction of seaplane and racing yacht designer Starling Burgess.
		October 27: The first Dymaxion car is involved in a fatal accident outside the World's Fair.
	www.stanford.edu /group/shl/Bucky/dymaxion/timeline.htm (1010 words)

	Dymaxion Recorder Consort Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dymaxion is a group of dedicated and energetic recorder players that formed in September 1994.
		Justine is the coordinator of Dymaxion, for which she has written and arranged music.
		This is the debut recording for Dymaxion, recorded live without audience in order to give a true representation of the ensemble and the spirit of the music (studios generally being too expensive at this illustrious stage of our career)!
	www.grainger.de /rmw/graveyard/drc.html (1450 words)

	Dymaxion Home
		I suppose that part of the allure of some future homes is that they can be built like factory items: mass produced cheaply and with all the compact efficiency of a Swiss army knife.
		It was designed to heat and cool naturally, had a diesel generator for power, and was light enough to be air lifted anywhere.
		Part of the reason for Dymaxion's inability to take the world by storm was probably Fuller's own interest in efficiency.
	www.davidszondy.com /future/Living/dymaxionhome.htm (186 words)

	WNET: Bucky Fuller Dymaxion House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Dymaxion House was to be leased, or priced like an automobile (qt movie, 2.2mb), to be paid off in five years.
		The Dymaxion's round shape (qt movie, 2.2mb) minimized heat loss and the amount of materials needed, while bestowing the strength to successfully fend off a 1964 tornado that missed by only a few hundred yards.
		In 1998, you'll be able to see the restored Dymaxion House at the Henry Ford Museum/Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan.
	www.thirteen.org /bucky/house.html (298 words)

	dymaxion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		DYMAXION Dymaxion X 4 + 3 =38 -- (UK CD album very ltd on Duophonic 1000 only)...
		DYMAXION Dymaxion X 4 + 3 =38 -- (UK LP very ltd on Duophonic 750 only)...
		DYMAXION EP -- (US 4 track 7" inc Theem Song + Objects May Be Closer)...
	www.opalmusic.com /a_to_z/dymaxion.htm (89 words)

	Buckminster Fuller: Dymaxion Deployment Unit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fuller began his "Dymaxion investigations in 1927, with a proposal for a mass produced bathroom and a house.
		Fuller drew inspiration for the Dymaxion house, not from technological innovations, but from a structural form that he believed had already been well tested - a silo.
		His refusal to radically alter the exterior of that form was based on his concern for speedy and cheap production.
	www.gsd.harvard.edu /studios/s97/burns/p_fullerd.html (171 words)

	3d model of the dymaxion car
		For those that haven't heard of it, the Dymaxion Car was a teardrop-shaped (least air resistance), 3-wheeled, rear-wheel (single) steering, 20 foot long, Aluminum bodied auto, designed by Buckminster Fuller in 1933 to achieve maximum output and service with minimum material input.
		Fuller referred to it as the "Dymaxion Car", "Dymaxion Vehicle", and "Omni-Medium Transport" since it was ultimately intended to go by land, water, or sky.
		Dymaxion passengers is another large site with lots of pictures, notes and chronology of the car, by Michael John Gorman
	www.washedashore.com /projects/dymax (1086 words)

	Media Portfolio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While Europe and Africa are oriented conventionally in the Dymaxion projection (with North toward the top of the page), the Americas, Asia, and Australia are shown at right angles to their conventional North-South orientation.
		The introduction of wide-bodied cargo jets (like the Boeing 747) in the 1970s was an important factor in contributing to the globalization of the world economy.
		This Dymaxion projection shows how the pattern of air freight reflects the three-cornered structure of the contemporary world economy, with the highest-volume flows going between Western Europe, North America, and Japan.
	cwx.prenhall.com /bookbind/pubbooks/knox/medialib/media_portfolio/02.html (589 words)

	Welcome To The Retro Future
		Mobility was another component -the 4D Dymaxion was literally a mobile home, built with light aluminum allowing it to be transported by dirigible.
		In 1933, Bucky dedicated himself to building the Dymaxion car, a three-wheeled automobile which allowed a driver to make a 360 degree turn on a dime.
		Any lingering hope the Dymaxion might go into full-scale production was dashed when the car was involved in a fatal accident at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.
	www.retrofuture.com /bucky.html (624 words)

	Inventions: Twelve Around One
		The first mass-producible bathroom was designed for the 1927 Dymaxion House, and the first prototype produced in 1930, although it was never shown to the public.
		The accompanying screenprint image of the Dymaxion Bathroom is derived from a photograph in the archives of Buckminster Fuller.
		The accompanying screenprint image of the Dymaxion Deployment Unit is derived from a photograph by Arsene de Rosset in the archives of Buckminster Fuller.
	www.solwaygallery.com /Pages/twelve.html (2635 words)

	Dymaxion Car (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This 11-seater, 3-wheeler has been aptly described as one of the most startlingly beautiful and original motor vehicles ever built (Pawley, p.68).
		The story of the Dymaxion Car offers endless food for thought for the designer.
		It is told in chapter 11 of Hatch's biography, and many drawings and photographs can be found in Dymaxion World.
	www.nous.org.uk /car.html (94 words)

	The R. Buckminster Fuller FAQ: Other Inventions
		The Dymaxion Map is Fuller's attempt to provide the best all-at-once view (therefore flat and not globe-shaped) of the Whole Earth.
		Among many interesting and some not-so interesting displays there was a dymaxion globe with magnetic panels holding the map sections to it's surface.
		The Dymaxion House prototype, for instance, was more octagonal, suspended from a central ``utility mast'' -- a house on a pole.
	www.cjfearnley.com /fuller-faq-5.html (5716 words)

	Media Portfolio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The word Dymaxion and the Fuller Projection Dymaxion™ Map design are trademarks of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, Santa Barbara, California, ©1938, 1967 & 1992.
		Countries that have few natural resources must pursue pathways to development that are based on manufacturing or services, relying on the profits from exports to pay for imported energy resources, foodstuffs, and raw materials.
		Important concentrations of manufacturing industry are also located in semiperipheral countries such as South Korea, Mexico, and Brazil, but the increasing globalization of manufacturing means that patterns are subject to rapid change.
	cwx.prenhall.com /bookbind/pubbooks/knox/medialib/media_portfolio/07.html (677 words)

	Dymaxion Air-Ocean World Map
		The Dymaxion Air-Ocean World Map designed and patented by Buckminster Fuller is the first in the history of cartography to show the whole surface of the Earth with no visible distortion of the relative size and shape of the land and sea areas and no breaks in the continental contours.
		The map offered here measures 50" X 72" and is brilliantly silk screened in 29 colors (showing mean low temperature zones) on Arches 100 percent rag paper.
		Fuller describes the Dymaxion Map as a tool which provides the least distorted means of studying at one glance the total synergetic significance of air-ocean economics and the alternate strategies for integrating all phases and states of energy/ behavior/resources toward operative advantage of all world people."
	www.solwaygallery.com /Pages/worldmap.html (136 words)

	WNET: Bucky Fuller Dymaxion Car (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The 1933 Dymaxion Car was intended to fly, jump-jet style, when suitable alloys and engines became available.
		Though not much heavier that a VW Beetle, the Dymaxion was nearly 20 feet long.
		That was too big for urban traffic, despite extraordinary maneuverability--it could U-turn in its own length.
	www.thirteen.org /bucky/car.html (243 words)

	The Dymaxion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dymaxion #2 at the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada, August 2000
		I went to Reno in the summer of 2000, where I visited the most excellent collection at the National Automobile Museum.
		I also have various photos and other images of the Dymaxion.
	www.maxmatic.com /Dymaxion/dymaxion.htm (118 words)

	UNITED STATES COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMP TO HONOR R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
		He designed the Dymaxion House, an inexpensive, mass-produced home that could be airlifted to its location; the Dymaxion Car, a streamlined, three-wheeled automobile that could make extraordinarily sharp turns; a compact, prefabricated, easily installed Dymaxion Bathroom; and Dymaxion Deployment Units (DDUs), mass-produced houses based on circular grain bins.
		He entitled the sketch "a one-town world." In 1946, Fuller received a patent for another breakthrough invention: the Dymaxion Map, which depicted the entire planet on a single flat map without visible distortion of the relative shapes and sizes of the continents.
		After being spurned early in his career by the architecture and construction establishments, Fuller was later recognized with many major architectural, scientific, industrial, and design awards, both in the United States and abroad, and he received 47 honorary doctorate degrees.
	www.usps.com /communications/news/stamps/2004/sr04_043.htm (1274 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Supervixens Dymaxion Lounge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At the Chƒteau Marmont to interview Esther Williams, she wears ``a fifties cerise cocktail dress with a floaty chiffon train.'' On her first day in L.A., feeling the need for some symbolic statement, she stops at a garage in the suburbs to change into a special flowered dress.
		The title refers back to Buckminster Fuller's concept of the dymaxion, a self-contained world in which everything that one needs for life is present in a kind of interdependent unity.
		For Johnson, Los Angeles has been her dymaxion, the place where she learned, she says, not so much to be happy as to be authentic.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312156685?v=glance (453 words)

	Info Age - DDUs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Used by the American military after Pearl Harbor, they were loosely based on the construction principles first publicized by Fuller’s “Dymaxion house” in 1927.
		“Dymaxion” was a word coined by Fuller to express his principle of maximum function for minimum effort.
		The dymaxion house, based on this principle, was a pre-fabricated circular construction supported by a single central mast (Buckminster Fuller Institute 1995; Klotz 1988; Roth 1979).
	www.infoage.org /ddu.htm (373 words)

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