I wanted to decorate my new office with something a little off center and I decided to transfer a very large print of this map into 3D to make the observer reconsider the little blue orb we live on. The Fuller Projection Map, also known as the Dymaxion Map, is the only flat map of the entire surface of the Earth which reveals our planet as one island in. There is quite a bit of information on this projection here and here. 2013 marks the map’s 70th birthday, and to celebrate, the Brooklyn-based Buckminster. The classic shape is an Icosahedron (20 triangle shape), but it is often shown slightly altered to fit the continents more neatly. The Dymaxion World map, which unfolds the earth into a long string of shapes, like a carefully peeled orange. World Vector Map Dymaxion Projection Adobe Illustrator Detailed Country names Although a globe is a type of map with the least distortion, it does not allow you to see the entire planet. English: Blank map of the world in an unfolded Fuller projection, also known as Dymaxion Air-Ocean World map. The Dymaxion projection was invented by Buckminster Fuller who is probably most famous for inventing the geodesic dome (think Spaceship Earth of Epcot center). It respects sizes and shapes fairly well, and at the same time it is unsettling in the way it separates continents we think of as close together (Africa and South America) and highlights the relative proximity of the northern countries (Canada and Russia). The Dymaxion projection is quite effective at keeping the sizes and distances in a visually intriguing manner. His World Game utilizes a large-scale Dymaxion Map for displaying world. There have been many clumsy attempts to improve upon Mercator but the trade offs are too costly. He examined a vectorial system of geometry, energetic-synergetic geometry. We are used to the Mercator Projection showing the north upward and exaggerating the size of polar continents Greenland looks the same size as Africa. Dymaxion Map World Projection - Regular Polyhedron Transparent PNG is a 744x379 PNG image with a transparent background. See Four conformal polyhedric projections and more.
A different perspective of the world map. A compromise projection onto the surface of an icosahedron, which results in comparatively low angular and areal distortions.
I have always been fascinated by maps, and bothered that there wasn't an elegant way to unravel our globe onto a flat surface. The Dymaxion Map of the Earth, also known as the Fuller Projection, is a projection of a global map onto the surface of a polyhedron, which, when expanded to a flat, two-dimensional map, retains most of the relative proportional integrity (relative size and shape) of global features.
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