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The March 1, 1943, edition of Life magazine included a photographic essay titled "Life Presents R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion World", illustrating a projection onto a cuboctahedron, including several examples of possible arrangements of the square and triangular pieces, and a pull-out section of one-sided magazine pages with the map faces printed on them, intended to be cut out and glued to ...
English: Blank map of the world in an unfolded Fuller projection, also known as Dymaxion Air-Ocean World map. 1954 final version for an icosahedron, with folding lines. Français : Carte du monde suivant une projection de Fuller dépliée, aussi appelée carte Dymaxion .
Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion map. A polyhedral map projection is a map projection based on a spherical polyhedron. Typically, the polyhedron is overlaid on the globe, and each face of the polyhedron is transformed to a polygon or other shape in the plane. The best-known polyhedral map projection is Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion map.
In 2001, a for-profit educational company named o.s. Earth Inc. purchased the principal assets of the World Game Institute and offered a Global Simulation Workshop that is a 'direct descendant of Buckminster Fuller's famous World Game.' [9] In 2019, the company transferred its assets to the Schumacher Center for New Economics.
[Blank map of the world in an unfolded Fuller projection, also known as Dymaxion Air-Ocean World map. 1954 final version for an icosahedron, modified to only include continent outlines] Error: {{Langx}}: text has italic markup [Carte du monde suivant une projection de Fuller dépliée, aussi appelée carte Dymaxion.
English: Blank map of the world in an unfolded Fuller projection, also known as Dymaxion Air-Ocean World map. 1954 final version for an icosahedron, with folding lines. Français : Carte du monde suivant une projection de Fuller dépliée, aussi appelée carte Dymaxion .
Dymaxion map of the world with the continental landmasses (Roman numerals) and 30 largest islands (Arabic numerals) highlighted. Image title: A map of the world, showing all landmasses with 10° graticule and Tissot's indicatrices of diameter 1,000 km and spacing 30°. Coastlines precise to 110 km. Width: 100%: Height: 100%
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