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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)

	A Fuller Explanation: Chapter Sixteen design science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The result is a map of the entire world with little distortion of the relative shape and size of land masses, and no breaks in the continental contours (Fig.
		The Dymaxion Map, awarded U.S. Patent 2,393,676 in 1946, is an unprecedented cartographic accomplishment, which was made possible by a straightforward application of geometry.
		Dymaxion Map®, used with permission of the Buckminster Fuller Institute.
	www.angelfire.com /mt/marksomers/137.html (843 words)

	Encyclopedia: Antarctica
		Zoomable PDF of the map this is based on The Antarctic Circle is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth.
		Map of Ross Island Ross Island is a volcanic island in the Ross Sea by Antarctica, on the coast of Victoria Land.
		Map of Pangæa Pangaea (Greek for all lands) is the name Alfred Wegener used to refer to the supercontinent that existed during the Mesozoic era, before the process of plate tectonics separated the component continents.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Antarctica (7204 words)

	Fuller Projection Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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 map projection used for this map, also know as the "Dymaxion Map," was created by R. Buckminster Fuller, distinguished mathematician, inventor and 20th century visionary.
		It is the only flat map of the entire surface of the Earth which reveals our planet as one island in one ocean, without any visually obvious distortion of the relative shapes and sizes of the land areas, and without splitting any continents.
	www.bfi.org /map.htm (673 words)

	Read about Dymaxion map at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Dymaxion map and learn about Dymaxion map here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		Peters present the map from one point of view and relative size distortions increase towards the extremities.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Dymaxion_map (426 words)

	Dymaxion Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		His Dymaxion Map minimized the distortions inherent in traditional maps (see Kline, 1972, p.170).
		The Dymaxion Map is a direct derivation from Fuller's energetic geometry, Synergetics.
		To produce the map, we have in effect to reverse the procedure for the geometrical construction of the geodesic dome.
	www.nous.org.uk /Dymaxion.Map.html (203 words)

	Dymaxion map -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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 Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Dymaxion World Map embodies his effort to resolve the dilemma of cartography: how to depict as a flat surface this spherical world, with true scale, true direction and correct configuration at one and the same time.
		Like all flat maps, it evidences the distortions that result from the translation of the three-dimensional surface of a sphere to a flat plane.
		Greenland on the Dymaxion map appears close to its relative size, in contrast to its inflation to six times that size on the Mercator projection.
	users.design.ucla.edu /~djvmc/24/bucky/map.html (154 words)

	Dymaxion Projection Animation
		I finally decided to use James Hasting-Trew's map which is not, as he writes, ``accurate or true in the strict photographic sense,'' but is close enough for my rendering, which is also not true in any sense.
		the new C code for generating the POV files; and the Earth map used for my renderings, which is a reduced copy of James Hasting-Trew's 10k map, not to be confused with his lower-resolution versions.
		My animation of an unfolding Dymaxion Map is available as a 1.4 meg ZIPped 640x480 QuickTime or as a 40k ZIPped 320x240 QuickTime or as a 400k 160x120 Java animation.
	www.westnet.com /~crywalt/unfold.html (415 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)

	Simon Woodside \| Weblog \| Buckminster Fuller's dymaxion map of the world
		Buckminster Fuller was obsessed with this word "dymaxion" which I think was supposed to be a combination of "dynamic" and "maximum".
		He created this "dymaxion map" of the world which was intended to have the least possible distortion of the shape of the land features.
		The "usual" map projection (Mercator) is really terrible because it totally accentuates the size of land masses that are close to the poles.
	simonwoodside.com /weblog/2005/08/01 (218 words)

	Robert W. Gray's Fuller Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The great idea Fuller had for his "spherical" to plane map transformation was to project the polyhedron onto the sphere and then "unfold" the spherical triangle (and square in the case of the VE) into a plane polygon.
		It is not appropriate to judge any map as being "good" or "bad" outside of the context in which it was intended to be used.
		Based on Fuller's writings, it is clear that the primary function of the map was to allow people to view all of the major land masses without any of the maps borders passing through, and therefore dividing, the major land masses.
	www.rwgrayprojects.com /rbfnotes/maps/graymap2.html (658 words)

	Talk:Dymaxion map - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Is Dymaxion Map the same as the Peters Projection map of the world?
		I left an example of the dymaxion map on the article page (see animation - ain't that pretty ?).
		The first item is a piece of text (not a link), the second is in the article, and third is a general article on Fuller, not on his map.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Dymaxion_map (227 words)

	GLOBAL VISION : POPULATION EXPLOSION ELECTRONIC TIME-SCULPTURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A second small electronic display on the edge of the map will indicate the calendar year for which the current data is shown.
		This is the only flat map of the spherical Earth which displays the entire surface of the planet without distorting the relative shapes and surface areas of the territory it represents.
		The Dymaxion map projects the Earth's surface onto an icosahedron, which unfolds into an array of 20 equilateral triangles.
	www.global-vision.org /popex/index2.html (1121 words)

	Tutorial About GENI, Part 1 of 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The word Dymaxion (tm) and the Dymaxion Map design are trademarks of The Buckminster Fuller Institute.
		The Dymaxion Map is copyrighted by The Buckminster Fuller Institute 1938, 1967, 1980 and 1992.
		The Dymaxion map shows that all the continents are connected, or separated by relatively short distances.
	www.animatedsoftware.com /geni/genimenu.htm (290 words)

	Rhombic polyhedra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Maps on random polyhedra nets are generated by mathematica computer program: Platonic solids, Archimedean solids, antiprisms, prisms, Johnson's solids, rhombic solids, Catalan solids.
		In the chapter Curious Maps (Gardner, M. (1988), Time Travel, W.H. Freeman and Company, New York, pg.196), many world's maps are presented, some of them use a projection on a convex solid, that is unfolded into a plane net.
		Buckminster Fuller's first Dymaxion map was a projection of the world onto the fourteen faces of a cuboctahedron.
	torina.fe.uni-lj.si /~izidor/CuriousMaps/Curious.html (182 words)

	Maps of the World, links to maps and map collections
		Map of the worldwide situation of freedom of the press.
		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.
		Political map of Africa, the African states, the capitals and major cities of the continent.
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/maps.htm (737 words)

	Media Portfolio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The word Dymaxion and the Fuller Projection Dymaxion™ Map design are trademarks of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, Santa Barbara, California, ©1938, 1967 & 1992.
		This map shows the percentage of the labor force in each country that was engaged in primary employment in 1995.
		As this map shows, the world’s largest and most productive manufacturing regions are located in the core regions of Europe, North America, and Japan.
	cwx.prenhall.com /bookbind/pubbooks/knox/medialib/media_portfolio/07.html (677 words)

	The Map Room: Dymaxion Map Projection
		The Dymaxion Projection is reputed to be the most accurate flatmap of the earth, but I love the way it shows how connected each continent is.” Essentially, a globe is projected onto an icosahedron, which is then unfolded.
		The Map Room is a blog about maps for a general audience, covering everything from collecting old maps to the latest in mapping technologies.
		These blogs run the gamut from general interest map blogs to GIS pro blogs to Google hackers and more.
	www.mcwetboy.net /maproom/2004/12/dymaxion_map_projection.phtml (223 words)

	Geo::Dymaxion - Plot latitude/longitude on a Fuller Dymaxion map
		maps using latitude and longitude data, which turns out to be quite difficult and requires some tricky trigonometry.
		Be sure when supplying this measure that you have excluded any margins that may exist around the edges of your map image.
		The word ``Dymaxion'' and the Fuller projection design are trademarks of the Buckminster Fuller Institute (http://www.bfi.org).
	cpan.uwinnipeg.ca /htdocs/Geo-Dymaxion/Geo/Dymaxion.html (734 words)

	Robert W. Gray's Buckminster Fuller Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Because of the amount of information I have accumulated on Fuller's world maps, particularly the icosahedron based map, I have divide the information into many different parts.
		The word Dymaxion and the Fuller Projection Dymaxion(TM) Map design are trademarks of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, Santa Barbara, California, (c) 1938, 1967 & 1992.
		Visual comparison of Fuller's map to the Gnomonic and Snyder's equal area projections.
	www.rwgrayprojects.com /rbfnotes/maps/graymap1.html (169 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions About the Fuller (Dymaxion) Projection - GENI - Global Energy Network Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On projections such as the Mercator map, the further north of south of the equator one goes, the more extreme the distortion becomes.
		When comparing the Mercator map to a globe, it is easy for everyone to see that Greenland, for example, is much larger on the flat Mercator map than it is on the globe.
		By rearranging the triangles, with the South Pole at the center of the map, navigation routes by sea become readily apparent, just as air routes across the North Pole are obvious in the original configuration.
	www.geni.org /energy/library/buckminster_fuller/dymaxion_map/fuller-faq.html (904 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.
		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.
		The map strengthened Bucky's resolve that geodesic lines-the shortest line between two points that lies on a given surface-were the most efficient way of enclosing space.
	www.retrofuture.com /bucky.html (624 words)

	Innovative Views of the World - Alternative Map Projections
		On the HDP map, the "cylinder" is assumed to wrap round the globe and cut through it at 37½° north and south.
		The reverse side of the HDP map shows the exact same projection, but with two somewhat startling changes: south is on top; and Australia is shown in the middle of the map.
		This is an equal-area map with poles and central meridians at half the length of the equator.
	www.odt.org /hdp/index.htm (989 words)

	The Fuller (Dymaxion) Projection - Air-Ocean World - Unique Features - A New Perception of Earth - Designing for ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A map of the Earth which presents geographic information in a single, comprehensive picture without breaks in any of the continental contours, or any visible distortion of the relative shapes or sizes of the land masses.
		With our increasing global awareness, a world map is needed which enables us to highlight the relationships among all nations and cultures of the world rather than one which emphasizes artificial boundaries between them.
		The word Dymaxion and the Dymaxion Map™ design are trademarks of the Buckminster Fuller Institute.
	www.geni.org /energy/library/buckminster_fuller/dymaxion_map/dymaxion_projection.html (609 words)

	WNET: Bucky Fuller Dymaxion Map
		He felt an accurate map of the whole earth could be used as a tool for world problem solving, showing accurate global information, such as human migration patterns or the distribution of natural resources at a glance.
		While perfecting his "great circle" mapping techniques, which formed the basis for his geodesic dome and were part of his synergetic geometry, Fuller's final, icosahedral version of the map was first published in 1954.
		Using any other map projection, even in a satellite picture of our earth, many more inches of land or sea must be added to "fill it out" on the top and the bottom.
	www.wnet.org /bucky/dymap.html (959 words)

	Dymaxion Map: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Dymaxion Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dymaxion Map: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Dymaxion Map
		The Dymaxion Map of the Earth shows all the continents floating in a single world ocean[?], which is broken up at the edges, as the projection follows the land masses, and distorts them minimally.
		It was created by Buckminster Fuller to eliminate culture bias in maps of the world.
	www.encyclopedian.com /dy/Dymaxion-Map.html (80 words)

	The Upsidedown Map Page - World Maps with South at the Top
		He questioned why world maps are drawn with North at the top when the universe is infinite and has no sides and the world is suspended in it.
		The Dymaxion Map has no compass direction consistently facing the same way; it is in the form an unfolded icosahedron.
		Star maps are mirrored along the east-west axis, so north is at the bottom and south at the top.
	www.flourish.org /upsidedownmap (2221 words)

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