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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 polyhedron, 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 globe map.
		Unlike most other projections, the Dymaxion is intended purely for representations of the entire globe.
		Each face of the polyhedron is a gnomonic projection, so zooming in on one such face renders the Dymaxion equivalent to such a projection.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dymaxion_Map (410 words)

	Dymaxion Map
		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)

	World map - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maps that depict the surface of the Earth use a projection, a way of translating the three-dimensional real surface of the geoid to a two-dimensional picture.
		Airplane pilots use aeronautical charts based on a Lambert conformal conic projection, in which a cone is laid over the section of the earth to be mapped.
		Peters Projection Map: This map was first introduced by historian and cartographer Dr. Arno Peters at a Press Conference in Germany in 1974 it generated a firestorm of debate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_map (307 words)

	VISTA: Maps & Projections: Map Projections
		A map projection is the systematic arrangement of the earth’s (or generating sphere’s) surface onto a plane surface.
		When projected from the center of the globe, the typical grid appearance for Conic projections shows parallels forming arcs of circles facing up in the Northern Hemisphere and down in the Southern Hemisphere; and meridians are either straight or curved and radiate outwards from the direction of the point of the cone.
		Azimuthal projections are constructed from one of three perspectives where for each it is as if a light source were shown upon the globe and the arcs of the parallels and meridians were projected onto the flat, tangent, straight line surface.
	acl.arts.usyd.edu.au /VISTA/20-maps&projections/map_projections.htm (2241 words)

	World map - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		A world map is a map of the surface of the Earth, which may be made using any of a number of different map projections.
		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.
		Perhaps the best-known world-map projection is the Mercator Projection, originally designed as a form of nautical chart.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/World_map (273 words)

	R. Buckminster Fuller / Inventor, Designer, Architect, Theorist (1895-1983) - Design/Designer Information
		The project that made Fuller’s name was the 1929 Dymaxion House, which he unveiled in the interior decorating department of the Chicago department store, Marshall-Field.
		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.
		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/r-buckminster-fuller (2430 words)

	Imaging the Earth
		Cartographers primarily use three types of projections to represent the earth on a flat surface: planar projections, cylindrical projections, and conical projections.
		Cylindrical projections, such as a Mercator projection, project the earth onto a map with lines of latitude and longitude that intersect at right angles.
		The basis of the Fuller Dymaxion Projection is an icosahedron.
	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.
		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.
		He projected the data from the sphere onto an icosahedron -- the twenty- sided Platonic solid -- and then unfolded that icosahedron out flat.
	www.westnet.com /~crywalt/unfold.html (415 words)

	Prentice Hall HTML Proofing Document
		The world-system core, semiperiphery, and periphery (a) in 1795, (b) in 1895, and (c) in 1995Note how the Dymaxion projection used in these maps (see Chapter 1) emphasizes the relative proximity of core regions and accentuates the geographic isolation of the economically peripheral regions.
		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 word Dymaxion and the Fuller Projection Dymaxion Map design are trademarks of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, Santa Barbara, California, ©1938, 1967 & 1992.
	dev.prenhall.com /divisions/esm/artworks/media_gallery/Knox/Chapter02_3of3.html (341 words)

	Coordinate Systems
		Choosing the best projection for a particular application always involves a choice of which sort of distortion is going to represent the area of interest in the least harmful way.
		The term Projection derives directly from the concept that a sillhouette of any sort of object can be projected onto a flat surface (as with a light source and screen.) In the case of (very simple) map projection, the object is a transparrent globe with geographic features drawn on it.
		This projection overcomes the distortion problem inherent in the standard Mercator by simply puting the tangent line of the projection surface near the center of the area of interest.
	www.geog.ubc.ca /courses/klink/g470/notes/coordinates/coordinates.html (2585 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions About the Fuller (Dymaxion) Projection - Dymaxion Map Impact Animation - Air-Ocean World - A ...
		The Peters projection, on the other hand, sacrifices shape to preserve relative accuracy in overall land area; distortions are obvious when comparing it to the globe.
		The Fuller Projection is not a 'shadow' projection as most maps are because the world is not projected' onto a regular icosahedron but rather unfolds into an icosahedron.
		During this transformation, the line from the sphere's center through the sphere's surface and out to the zenith point is kept at a constant 90 degree angle with respect to the map's surface.
	www.geni.org /globalenergy/library/buckminster_fuller/dymaxion_map/fuller-faq.shtml (909 words)

	update - article
		Richard Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map helps replacing our 16th century mental model of the world with views on the 'spaceship earth' ready for the 21st century and the discussion of the different aspects of being UNPLUGGED.
		What at first might seem merely a solution for the deficits of the classical projection of the globe on a two dimensional map, is in fact the introduction of a radically new view on the earth as we know it.
		The practical philosopher Richard Buckminster Fuller invented the so-called Dymaxion Map (standing for: Dynamic + maximum + tension) to replace the Mercator-Projection, that was used over centuries and still lingers as the dominating model for viewing and describing the world.
	www.aec.at /festival2002/update/artikel.asp?id=212&lang=e (319 words)

	Robinson Map Projection \| MetaFilter
		He is famous for the Robinson Projection which compromised on the Greenland problem of while being (IMO) more pleasing than the Peters Map.
		My favorite has always been the Dymaxion projection, just because it makes the most sense to me. Start with a regular polyhedra which approximates a sphere, then unwrap it.
		Your belief that mapmakers should not be concerned with their maps being "pleasing" is premised on the belief that there is a perfectly correct way to lay out a map and that any deviation from that in the name of asthetic liscense is improper.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/37002 (717 words)

	DIVERSOPHY.COM - products
		The mercator projection is still in common use today by airline pilots and ship captains (but only in regional chart form).
		The Peters Projection Map is probably best known for being "fair to all peoples." Each country is shown in proportion to its actual size.
		Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Projection is an innovative image that was designed to help convey the idea that "we're all astronauts aboard a little spaceship called Earth." For more information about this visionary genius contact The Buckminster Fuller Institute (link to www.BFI.org).This representation minimizes shape AND size distortion, but is hard to use.
	www.diversophy.com /quizans.htm (709 words)

	Bucky Map (Site not responding. Last check: )
		First published in 1954, this "dymaxion projection" is based on Fuller's dymaxion system, which he also used to build his famous dome buildings.
		Fuller's projection was the first single-surface map to display the earth's geography without visible distortion of the shapes or sizes of its land masses.
		This projection includes a great deal of distortion in its attempt to depict the three-dimensional planet in two dimensions: the cylindrical projection was created by wrapping a "tube" of paper around the globe and transferring data straight from the sphere to a rectangle of paper.
	www.jbwendover.com /buckymap.htm (721 words)

	METAMUTE : M24: Web Exclusives (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fahlström's map recalls the Mercator projection: but the oceans have practically disappeared, the continents are crushed or swollen by the political pressures that the world-economy brings.
		Today, a multitude of projects like 'Planet of the Apes' are making them increasingly visible.7 To the point where a new resistance means that we can start imagining - or exploring - a radically different map of the planet again.
		Berlusconi's Italy, where the project has been shown, is hardly an exception: and yet it is also one of the laboratories for new forms of political mobilization.
	www.metamute.com /look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrIssue=24&NrSection=5&NrArticle=830&ST_max=0&search=search&SearchKeywords=dymaxion&SearchLevel=0 (2221 words)

	Newberry Library: Smith Center Virtual Exhibits
		In 1954, Buckminster Fuller published the Raleigh edition of his Dymaxion Air-Ocean World Map, a project begun by the architect, futurist, and philosopher in the 1920s.
		Whereas the projection of Fuller’s map represents all areas with equal weight, Burnham’s rendering of urban space in the Chicago plan prioritizes areas that serve a greater aesthetic or civic purpose.
		Instead, the Dymaxion map provides a base for presenting global themes such as human migration, natural resources, and population distribution.
	www.newberry.org /smith/exhibits/popcart/utopia.html (658 words)

	WNET: Bucky Fuller Dymaxion Map
		Fuller felt that it must be possible to depict a view of the entire earth without distortion of the relative shapes and sizes of the land masses and without any breaks in the continental contours, something that can only be done on a globe.
		Although there are many types of map projections, the most widely used flat world map for more than 400 years, the Mercator Projection, is a cylindrical projection.
		During the next few months the World Game Institute is conducting a vanguard project to take this map to the next step by constructing a new version of the satellite map with 16 times more detail.
	www.thirteen.org /bucky/dymap.html (959 words)

	The Fuller (Dymaxion) Projection - Air-Ocean World - Unique Features - A New Perception of Earth - Designing for ...
		A world projection with negligible distortion which can accurately display at a glance global information such as human migration patterns and the distribution of natural resources.
		Every world map projection must make certain compromises as information is transferred from a spherical globe to a flat surface.
		Using the some mathematical principles on which his world famous geodesic domes were to be based, Fuller carefully designed a way to display the world all at once, with the least amount of visual distortion.
	www.geni.org /globalenergy/library/buckminster_fuller/dymaxion_map/dymaxion_projection.shtml (625 words)

	Rhombic polyhedra (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The mathematician Charles Sanders Peirce designed a conformal map, namely a projection on eight isosceles right triangles that may be regarded as the faces of an octahedron, flattened until a space diagonal is zero.
		Buckminster Fuller's first Dymaxion map was a projection of the world onto the fourteen faces of a cuboctahedron.
		This means that we calculate the intercept of the half-straight line from the origin via given point on the globe by a face of the polyhedron.
	torina.fe.uni-lj.si /~izidor/visual14/Projections.html (330 words)

	Nicole Lee's Weblog: Peters projection map
		The Mercator map is useful for explorers, seafarers, and airline pilots, because the straight lines on the projection are lines of constant compass bearing.
		It is also a conformal projection, which means it shows shapes pretty much the way they appear on the globe.
		I, for one, was very surprised of the existence of this map, and of the issues involved in cartography.
	neekole.com /weblog/archives/2003/10/peters_projection_ma.php (274 words)

	Light Chatter: Free Your Mind: The Fuller Dymaxion Projection Map
		The projection used for this world map, also known as the "Dymaxion Map," was created by
		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.
		On the well-known Mercator world map, Greenland appears to be three times its relative globe size and Antarctica appears as a long thin white strip along the bottom edge of the map.
	lightchatter.newcatch.com /2005/12/free-your-mind-fuller-dymaxion.php (248 words)

	The Fuller Projection Map \| The Buckminster Fuller Institute
		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.
		On the well-known Mercator world map, Greenland appears to be three times its relative globe size and Antarctica appears as a long thin white strip along the bottom edge of the map.
		The word Dymaxion, Spaceship Earth and the Fuller Projection design are trademarks of the Buckminster Fuller Institute.
	www.bfi.org /node/25 (590 words)

	Environmental Protection Agency
		We used five different methods for mapping from the polyhedral model to the surface of the sphere: the Gnomonic projection, Fuller's Dymaxion projection, Snyder's equal area polyhedral projection, direct spherical subdivision, and a recursive polyhedral projection.
		We increased partition density using both a 4-fold and a 9-fold ratio at each level of recursive subdivision by subdividing to the 8th level with the 4-fold density ratio (65,536 cells per polyhedral face) and to the 5th level with the 9-fold density ratio (59,049 cells per polyhedral face).
		The Fuller projection and the Sphere method had moderate distortion in both area and compactness relative to the worst methods.
	www.epa.gov /wed/pages/publications/abstracts/archived/white98.htm (300 words)

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