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  • Free Your Mind: The Fuller Dymaxion Projection Map

    Dymaxion = Dynamic + Maximum + Tension

    The Fuller Dymaxion Projection MapThe projection used for this world map, also known as the "Dymaxion Map," was created by Buckminster Fuller, distinguished mathematician, inventor and 20th century visionary. The map began as a sketch, "The One-Town World" in 1927. By 1954, after working on the map for several decades, Fuller finally had a satisfactory deck plan of the six and one half sextillion tons Spaceship Earth.

    The Dymaxion Map is the only flat map of the entire surface of the earth that reveals our planet as it really is an island in one ocean without any visible distortion of the relative shapes and sizes of the land areas, and without splitting any continents.

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    All flat world map representations of the spherical globe contain some amount of distortion either in shape, area, distance or direction measurements. On the well-known Mercator world map, Greenland appears to be three times its relative globe size and Antarctica appears as a long thin white strip along the bottom edge of the map. Even the popular Robinson Projection, now used in many schools, still contains a large amount of area distortion with Greenland appearing 60 percent larger than its relative globe size.

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