The Dymaxion map or Fuller map is a projection of a world map onto the surface of an icosahedron, which can be unfolded and flattened to two dimensions...
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Dymaxion house, the Dymaxion deployment unit, the Dymaxion car, and the Dymaxion world map. Dymaxion also came to describe a polyphasic sleep schedule...
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The Dymaxion House was developed by inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller to address several perceived shortcomings with existing homebuilding techniques...
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non-standard orientation include T and O maps, polar maps, and Dymaxion maps. Research suggests that north-south positions on maps have psychological consequences...
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popularizing such terms as "Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion" (e.g., Dymaxion house, Dymaxion car, Dymaxion map), "ephemeralization", "synergetics", and "tensegrity"...
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Smackdown: Cahill's Butterfly vs. the Dymaxion Map". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2023-08-11. "Dymaxion World Map by Richard Buckminster Fuller (327CA)...
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other shape in the plane. The best-known polyhedral map projection is Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion map. When the spherical polyhedron faces are transformed...
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orientation, as some maps in Brazil do today. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion maps are based on a projection of the Earth's sphere onto an icosahedron...
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The Dymaxion Chronofile is Buckminster Fuller's attempt to document his life as completely as possible. He created a very large scrapbook in which he documented...
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Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion map. Conformal, or orthomorphic, map projections preserve angles locally, implying that they map infinitesimal circles...
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map projections that have articles of their own on Wikipedia or that are otherwise notable. Because there is no limit to the number of possible map projections...
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Contour line (redirect from Contour map)
automatic label placement. Aeronautical chart Bathymetry Dymaxion map Fall line (topography) Geologic map Marching squares Planform Tensor field TERCOM Courant...
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distribution of global resources. This alternative to war games uses Fuller's Dymaxion map and requires a group of players to cooperatively solve a set of metaphorical...
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AuthaGraph projection (category Map projections)
oceans while it reduces distortions of their shapes, as inspired by the Dymaxion map. The projection does not have some of the major distortions of the Mercator...
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Buckminster Fuller used the net of a regular icosahedron to create a map known as Dymaxion map, by subdividing the net into triangles, followed by calculating...
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of San Francisco. His polyhedral Butterfly World Map, like Buckminster Fuller's later Dymaxion map of 1943 and 1954, enabled all continents to be uninterrupted...
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Dymaxion may refer to: Dymaxion map, a map projection that minimizes distortion of landmasses Dymaxion, a term coined by Buckminster Fuller to describe...
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A dymaxion map of the biogeographic distribution of Camelidae species: Tertiary distribution Present-day distributions Introduced (feral) distributions...
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on 8 July 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2023. "Government unveils new political map including Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura inside Nepal borders". kathmandupost...
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Data-flow diagram Map projection Orthographic projection (cartography) Robinson projection Stereographic projection Dymaxion map Topographic map Craig retroazimuthal...
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Mercator projection, organizers opted for a modified version of the Dymaxion map projection. The alternative approach prioritized minimizing distortions...
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Building to some degree on his observations and artifacts, e.g. the Dymaxion map of the Earth he created, others began to ask if there was a way to make...
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Mercator projection (redirect from Mercator map projection)
conformal cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It became the standard map projection for navigation...
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Outline of cartography (section Map projections)
map Contour map Dymaxion map Electronic map Fantasy map Geologic map Nautical chart Pictorial maps Planform Plat Reversed map Road atlas Street map Thematic...
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chromosomal DNA was mapped. The analysis showed that the woolly mammoth and the African elephant are 98.55% to 99.40% identical. The team mapped the woolly mammoth's...
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flags placed next to each other. In the centre of the flag was placed a Dymaxion map of the world. The design was updated in the 1992, expanding number of...
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Critical Path (1981) Dymaxion Chronofile Other Dymaxion house (1928) Dymaxion car (1933) Dymaxion deployment unit (1940) Dymaxion map (1946) Tensegrity (1949)...
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affiliated with its design department. One of his interests was Fuller's Dymaxion Map, an attempt to show in a flat projection "all continents uninterrupted...
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