Bucky Fuller's World Map
"Buckminster Fuller's 'Dymaxion' globe offers an unconventional yet scientific view of the Earth in three dimensions. ... Fuller created the Dymaxion Airocean World Map in 1954 with co-cartographer Shoji Sadao. This projection presents the Earth's land masses as a single island, floating in the ocean, without any obvious distortion of the relative shapes or sizes of the land areas. The projection folds into an icosahedron, or 20-sided polyhedron, offering one solution for the mapmaker's dilemma encountered when depicting a round Earth on a flat map."
Quoted from a sign in the Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, at an exhibit called Crossing Boundaries: Art//Maps.
Bucky Fuller's World Map
"Buckminster Fuller's 'Dymaxion' globe offers an unconventional yet scientific view of the Earth in three dimensions. ... Fuller created the Dymaxion Airocean World Map in 1954 with co-cartographer Shoji Sadao. This projection presents the Earth's land masses as a single island, floating in the ocean, without any obvious distortion of the relative shapes or sizes of the land areas. The projection folds into an icosahedron, or 20-sided polyhedron, offering one solution for the mapmaker's dilemma encountered when depicting a round Earth on a flat map."
Quoted from a sign in the Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, at an exhibit called Crossing Boundaries: Art//Maps.