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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)

	Map - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Pre-modern maps, and mapping traditions outside the Western tradition, often merge geography with non-scientific cosmography, showing the relationship of the viewer to the universe.
		For example, maps designed for the hiker are often scaled at the ratio 1:25,000, meaning that 1 of any unit of measurement on the map corresponds to 25,000 of that same unit in reality; while maps designed for the motorist are often scaled at 1:250,000.
		Maps that depict the surface of the Earth also use a projection, a way of translating the three-dimensional real surface of the geoid to a two-dimensional picture.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /map.htm (1948 words)

	Learn more about Gaia philosophy in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Lewis Thomas held that Earth should be viewed as a single cell; he derived this view from Johannes Kepler's view of Earth as a single round organism.
		At one end is the undeniable statement that the organisms on the Earth have radically altered its composition.
		In this sense of the word organism, it is argued under the theory that the entire biomass of the Earth is a single organism (as Johannes Kepler thought).
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /g/ga/gaia_philosophy.html (1830 words)

	Gaia philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gaia philosophy (named after Gaia, the Greek goddess of the Earth) is a broadly inclusive term for related concepts that living organisms on a planet will affect the nature of their environment – to make it more suitable for life.
		the Dymaxion map of the Earth he created, others began to ask if there was a way to make Gaia theory scientifically sound.
		A stronger position is that the Earth's biosphere effectively acts as if it is a self-organizing system which works in such a way as to keep its systems in some kind of equilibrium that is conducive to life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gaia_philosophy (1848 words)

	Fuller Projection Map
		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 maps commonly in use today distort, exaggerate and divide the landmasses in their attempt to show the curved surface of the earth as a flat projection.
		This remarkable new cloud-free view of the Earth was produced by mosaicing hundreds of individual satellite images acquired from the NOAA series of weather satellites which orbit the Earth at an altitude of 820 km (520 miles).
	www.anticipation.info /texte/buckminster/www.bfi.org/map.htm (809 words)

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		Gaia philosophy (named after Gaia, the Greekgoddess of the Earth) is a broadly inclusive term for related concepts that livingorganisms on a planet will affect the nature of their environment - to make it moresuitable for life.
		Lewis Thomas held that Earth should be viewed as a single cell; hederived this view from Johannes Kepler 's view of Earth as a singleround organism.
		A stronger position is that the Earth's biosphere effectivelyacts as if it is a self-organizing system which works in such a way as to keep its systems in some kind of equilibrium that isconducive to life.
	immune-system-help.com /earth/theory/gaia_philosophy.html (1705 words)

	Dymaxion Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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)

	Continent - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Dymaxion map by Buckminster Fuller shows land mass with minimal distortion as only one continuous continent
		During the 20th century, it became accepted by geologists that continents move location on the face of the planet over the geologic timescale, a process known as continental drift, explained by the theory of plate tectonics.
		The surface of the Earth currently consists of seven major and many minor tectonic plates, and it is these that have drifted, broken apart and joined together over time to give rise to the continents we now recognize.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Continents (551 words)

	Gaia theory - ArtPolitic Encyclopedia of Politics : Information Portal
		Lovelock suggested that life on Earth provides a cybernetic, homeostatic feedback system operated automatically and unconsciously by the biota, leading to stabilization of global temperature and chemical composition.
		Teilhard de Chardin claims that the Earth is evolving through stages of geosphere[?], biosphere, and noosphere, culminating in the Omega Point.
		Accordingly, the Earth is not a living organism which can live or die all at once, but rather a kind of community of trust which can exist at many discrete levels of integration.
	www.artpolitic.org /infopedia/ga/Gaea_theory.html (3103 words)

	Dymaxion map - TheBestLinks.com - Dymaxion projection, Buckminster Fuller, Cuboctahedron, Earth, ...
		Dymaxion map - TheBestLinks.com - Dymaxion projection, Buckminster Fuller, Cuboctahedron, Earth,...
		Dymaxion projection, Dymaxion map, Buckminster Fuller, Cuboctahedron, Earth...
		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 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.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Dymaxion_projection.html (467 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Dymaxion map of the Earth is a projection of a global map onto the...
		dymaxion map plotter in #infoanarchy, so I used it to write a perl script that plots the headmap XML data onto a dymaxion map (same data used by geosphere).
		Notes to Fuller's World Maps 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...
	dymaxion_map.iqexpand.com (725 words)

	Map Projections: Polyhedral Maps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Intuitively, distortion in polyhedral maps is greater near vertices and edges, where the polyedron is farther from the inscribed sphere; also, increasing the number of faces is likely to reduce distortion (after all, a sphere is equivalent to a polyhedron with infinitely many faces).
		Berghaus's star map is incidentally foldable as a tetrahedron, although its development is unrelated to any method aforementioned.
		Although mapping into the regular hexahedron (an ordinary cube) is prone to strong distortion, the nonsensical notion of "Earth-in-a-box" has always attracted me. Once I plotted and folded such a map by hand alone.
	www.progonos.com /furuti/MapProj/Normal/ProjPoly/projPoly.html (1204 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)

	The Mercator Globes - Harvard Map Collection - Harvard College Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The use of a polyhedron to map the surface of a sphere is not a new idea.
		He called it a "dymaxion map", whose virtues included a low degree of distortion in all parts of the earth, and the ability to unfold the polyhedron such that no land areas are cut into by edges of the map.
		This device is a small image of the earth, with a representation of the present-day geography displayed on its surface.
	hcl.harvard.edu /mercatorglobes/about_the_navigator.html (1373 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.
		We are standing on a sphere, (qt movie, 4.3mb) held to its surface by the forces of gravity, not a flat world with edges to the north, south, east and west.
	www.wnet.org /bucky/dymap.html (959 words)

	Imaging the Earth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Today, Earth is recognized as an oblate spheroid since it bulges a bit at the equator.
		Represention of a round Earth onto a flat surface is still a challenge for cartographers and for people studying the Earth from space using satellite imagery.
		Cartographers primarily use three types of projections to represent the earth on a flat surface: planar projections, cylindrical projections, and conical projections.
	octopus.gma.org /surfing/imaging/imaging.html (576 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)

	GLOBAL VISION : POPULATION EXPLOSION ELECTRONIC TIME-SCULPTURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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)

	biology - World map
		A world map is a map of the surface of the Earth, that may correspond to any of a number of different map projections.
		Time zones are areas of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time.
		Dymaxion map by Buckminster Fuller is a map projection that shows the world continents with less distortion.
	www.biologydaily.com /biology/World_map (89 words)

	Great Circle Mapper FAQ
		The polar maps are a special case for paths that traverse the Arctic (or Antarctic) regions of the globe; with the restricted set of maps the orthographic projection didn't require much additional work to implement.
		The polar maps are orthographic projections centered on the two poles.
		Rectangular projections (non-topographic) were derived from maps generated by the Xerox map server, using the color palette of the Virtual Tourist maps.
	gc.kls2.com /faq.html (3619 words)

	The Fuller (Dymaxion) Projection - Air-Ocean World - Unique Features - A New Perception of Earth - Designing for ...
		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)

	Encyclopedia: List of islands
		This is a list of islands in the world grouped by oceans and by continents.
		Dymaxion map by Buckminster Fuller shows land mass with minimal distortion as only one continuous continent A continent (Latin continere, to hold together) is a large continuous land mass.
		Phantom islands are islands that are believed to exist and appear on maps for a period of time (sometimes centuries), and they are removed after they are proven not to exist (or the general population stops believing that they exist).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-islands (1519 words)

	Continent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Taking Alexandria as a prime meridian, they divided the oikoumene or habitable earth into three parts: Asia was east of Alexandria, Europe was west of Alexandria and north of the Mediterranean Sea, and Libya, known by the Romans as Africa, was west of Alexandria and south of the Mediterranean.
		Geologically, the surface of Earth consists of many tectonic plates.
		Likewise, the British Isles, Sri Lanka, Borneo, and Newfoundland are integral parts of the Laurasian continent which are superficially separated by the inland seas flooding its margins.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Continent.htm (827 words)

	BUCKMINSTER FULLER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		His Dymaxion™ Map was awarded the first patent for a cartographic system and was the first to show continents on a flat surface without visible distortion, appearing as a one-world island in a one-world ocean.
		Beginning in the 1930s initiatives like the Dymaxion World Map (which gives more accurate representations than traditional maps), the Global Energy Network grid and World Game geostrategic scenarios were promoted by the State of the World Forum and futurists including Robert Anton Wilson, Barbara Marx Hubbard and Marshall Savage.
		The Spaceship Earth meme became popular with the awakening of Gaia-consciousness, and the Overview Effect experienced by astronauts and cosmonauts.
	www.olats.org /pionniers/pp/buckminster/biographyBuckminster.shtml (744 words)

	Making the Geoscope a Reality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Skopek's first demonstration, plotted on Fuller's Dymaxion map of the Earth, is entitled "Impact on Natural Habitat: 1700 - 2100." He shows off EARTHscope's shiny user interface, which allows a user to display features like global biodiversity, human population, critical habitat, human development, and more, as GIS-like layers.
		Other demos include the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) Atlas of Population and Environment; a Green Maps "Lomap" demo of Lower Manhattan "as seen by youth"; and a USGS temporal mapping of the SF Bay Area showing urban sprawl (ugh) from 1800 to 1990.
		Helt's demo showed maps of the San Francisco Bay from 1850 overlaid with modern digital raster data, fading from one to another at will, showing very vividly how the historical coastline of the Bay differed from today's -- in particular, the progressive landfilling of what are now Alameda and Treasure Island.
	www.oreillynet.com /pub/wlg/3288 (1003 words)

	free press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Given humanity’s enormous impact on the Earth’s natural systems, compounded by the prospect of our population doubling within the next fifty years, well-informed debate concerning this unparalleled opportunity for comprehensive planetary success must take a place on center stage.
		BFI believes that the success of the human experiment on-board Spaceship Earth depends greatly upon individuals having access to tools which empower them to see the Big Picture and take strategic action.
		His World Game® utilizes a large-scale Dymaxion Map for displaying world resources, and allows players to strategize solutions to global problems, matching human needs with resources.
	www.furnitureforthepeople.com /buck.htm (2438 words)

	Society Fresh : Article 'Gaia' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gaia theory is a group of scientific theories about how life on Earth may regulate the planet's biosphere to make it more hospitable to life.
		Belief in a nurturing Earth Mother is a feature of modern Neopagan "Goddess" worship, which is typically linked by practitioners of this religion to the Neolithic goddess theory.
		Much more speculative versions of Gaia theory, including all versions in which it is held that the Earth is actually conscious or part of some universe-wide evolution, are currently held to be outside the bounds of science.
	www.society-fresh.net /DisplayArticle228461.html (784 words)

	Viewer Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This is a Fuller projection (also called dymaxion projection) map of the Earth.
		I chose to use it as opposed to more traditional projections because there is less distortion and is more fair in the representation of relative sizes of the land-masses.
		It is considered to be the most accurate flat map of the earth -- there is no visible distortion.
	www.osl.iu.edu /~kyross/viewer-map.html (147 words)

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