The Dymaxion map projection, also called the Fuller projection, is a kind of polyhedral map projection of the Earth's surface onto the unfolded net of...
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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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The Dymaxion house was developed by inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller to address several perceived shortcomings with existing homebuilding techniques...
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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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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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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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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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northern hemisphere." Other maps with non-standard orientation include T and O maps, polar maps, and Dymaxion maps. Map projection North–South divide...
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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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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's Dymaxion map. Conformal, or orthomorphic, map projections preserve angles locally, implying that they map infinitesimal circles...
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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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Contour line (redirect from Contour map)
automatic label placement. Aeronautical chart Bathymetry Dymaxion map Fall line (topography) Geological map Marching squares Planform Tensor field TERCOM Courant...
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Dymaxion is a term coined by Buckminster Fuller to describe his work. Dymaxion may also refer to: Dymaxion map, a map projection that minimizes distortion...
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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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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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Gall–Peters projection (redirect from Peters projection map)
The Gall–Peters projection is a rectangular, equal-area map projection. Like all equal-area projections, it distorts most shapes. It is a cylindrical...
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stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Michael Oppenheimer, 1998 (see map of Antarctica showing regions where bedrock is below sea level) Jonathan...
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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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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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cartography when R. Buckminster Fuller used its net to his project known as Dymaxion map, frustatedly realized that the Greenland size is smaller than the South...
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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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Mercator projection (redirect from Mercator map projection)
cylindrical map projection first presented by Flemish geographer and mapmaker Gerardus Mercator in 1569. In the 18th century, it became the standard map projection...
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stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Michael Oppenheimer, 1998 (see map of Antarctica showing regions where bedrock is below sea level) Jonathan...
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Leonardo's world map is the name assigned to a unique world map drawn using the "octant projection" and found loosely inserted among a Codex of Leonardo...
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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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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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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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