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Polyhedral compromise map projection
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
Dymaxion_map
Type of map projection
other shape in the plane. The best-known polyhedral map projection is Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion map. When the spherical polyhedron faces are transformed
Polyhedral_map_projection
American philosopher, architect and inventor (1895–1983)
popularizing such terms as "Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion" (e.g., Dymaxion house, Dymaxion car, Dymaxion map), "ephemeralization", "synergetics", and "tensegrity"
Buckminster_Fuller
Prototype house designed by Buckminster Fuller
The Dymaxion house was developed by inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller to address several perceived shortcomings with existing homebuilding techniques
Dymaxion_house
Artificial term used by Fuller to attribute his inventions
Dymaxion house, the Dymaxion deployment unit, the Dymaxion car, and the Dymaxion world map. Dymaxion also came to describe a polyphasic sleep schedule
Dymaxion
Places where the globe has been split in a map projection
Smackdown: Cahill's Butterfly vs. the Dymaxion Map". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 11 August 2023. "Dymaxion World Map by Richard Buckminster Fuller (327CA)
Interruption_(map_projection)
Diary of Buckminster Fuller
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
Dymaxion_Chronofile
Map orientation
Hemisphere." Dymaxion map Gall-Peters projection Global North and Global South Map projection Philosophy of geography Polar map T and O map "The 'Blue Marble'
South-up_map_orientation
Inventor of the butterfly projection map
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
Bernard_J._S._Cahill
Educational simulation game
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
World_Game
Polyhedral compromise map projection
polyhedral map projection. The map reduces the distortion of sizes and shapes of all continents and oceans, as inspired by the Dymaxion map. The projection
AuthaGraph_projection
Systematic representation of the surface of a sphere or ellipsoid onto a plane
Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion map. Conformal, or orthomorphic, map projections preserve angles locally, implying that they map infinitesimal circles
Map_projection
Scale model of a celestial body
of globe anthropomorphized as human. Maps portal World portal Analemma Armillary sphere Cartography Dymaxion map Earth in culture Ellen Eliza Fitz Emery
Globe
Cylindrical equal-area map projection
The Gall–Peters projection is a rectangular, equal-area map projection. Like all equal-area projections, it distorts most shapes. It is a cylindrical
Gall–Peters_projection
Curve along which a 3D surface is at equal elevation
automatic label placement. Aeronautical chart Bathymetry Dymaxion map Fall line (topography) Geological map Marching squares Plan Tensor field TERCOM Courant
Contour_line
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
List_of_map_projections
Cylindrical conformal 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
Mercator_projection
Topics referred to by the same term
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
Dymaxion_(disambiguation)
Equal-area pseudocylindrical global map projection
The Equal Earth map projection is an equal-area pseudocylindrical global map projection invented by Bojan Šavrič, Bernhard Jenny, and Tom Patterson in
Equal_Earth_projection
American dance ethnologist (1927-2021)
Critical Path (1981) Dymaxion Chronofile Other Dymaxion house (1928) Dymaxion car (1933) Dymaxion deployment unit (1940) Dymaxion map (1946) Tensegrity (1949)
Allegra_Fuller_Snyder
Islands larger than 1,000 sq. km
model. Area (and possibly island) not shown on USGS, Esri and UNEP-WCMC map. Listed as Elleg Ringens. "USGS – Global Islands Explorer". Global Islands
List_of_islands_by_area
on 8 July 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2023. "Government unveils new political map including Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura inside Nepal borders". kathmandupost
List of countries and dependencies by area
List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area
Solid with twenty equal triangular faces
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
Regular_icosahedron
Pseudocylindrical compromise map projection
The Robinson projection is a map projection of a world map that shows the entire world at once. It was created in an attempt to find a good compromise
Robinson_projection
Family of mammals
A dymaxion map of the biogeographic distribution of Camelidae species: Tertiary distribution Present-day distributions Introduced (feral) distributions
Camelidae
Type of map projection
is a map projection that preserves relative area measure between any and all map regions. Equivalent projections are widely used for thematic maps showing
Equal-area_projection
Conceptual flag
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 1992, expanding the number of
Flag_of_Earth
Collaborative Minecraft project recreating Earth at 1:1 scale
Mercator projection, organizers opted for a modified version of the Dymaxion map projection. The alternative approach prioritized minimizing distortions
Build_the_Earth
proposal. Before proposing the Geoscope, Fuller had invented the Dymaxion map, a novel map projection for the whole Earth. Many of Fuller's ideas for the
Geoscope
Historic house in Illinois, United States
Critical Path (1981) Dymaxion Chronofile Other Dymaxion house (1928) Dymaxion car (1933) Dymaxion deployment unit (1940) Dymaxion map (1946) Tensegrity (1949)
R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home
R._Buckminster_Fuller_and_Anne_Hewlett_Dome_Home
Map possibly by Leonardo da Vinci c. 1514
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
Leonardo's_world_map
Map projection in which every angle between two curves that cross each other is preserved
In cartography, a conformal map projection is one in which every angle between two curves that cross each other on Earth (a sphere or an ellipsoid) is
Conformal_map_projection
American activist, cartographer and linguist (1941–2025)
Smackdown: Cahill's Butterfly vs. the Dymaxion Map". www.wired.com. Wired Magazine. Retrieved November 1, 2016. "CaGIS 41st Map Design Competition Results". cartogis
Gene_Keyes
Flat-sided three-dimensional shape
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
Polyhedron
Piece of subcontinental land surrounded by water
short descriptions of redirect targets Phantom island – Island recorded on maps but proven nonexistent Private island – Island owned by a single private
Island
Data-flow diagram Map projection Orthographic projection (cartography) Robinson projection Stereographic projection Dymaxion map Topographic map Craig retroazimuthal
List_of_graphical_methods
Polyhedral compromise map projection
very similar results. Like Buckminster Fuller's 1943 Dymaxion Projection, an octahedral butterfly map can show all the continents uninterrupted if its octants
Waterman_butterfly_projection
Compromise map projection
The Van der Grinten projection is a compromise map projection, which means that it is neither equal-area nor conformal. Unlike perspective projections
Van_der_Grinten_projection
Type of conformal map projection
planisphere projection or the azimuthal conformal projection, is a conformal map projection whose use dates back to antiquity. Like the orthographic projection
Stereographic_map_projection
Term in energy economics
1940, Buckminster Fuller was the first to use the term "energy slave" in a map in Fortune. He calculated the yield of an energy slave by taking the energy
Energy_slave
Conformal map projection
The Peirce quincuncial projection is the conformal map projection from the sphere to an unfolded square dihedron, developed by Charles Sanders Peirce
Peirce_quincuncial_projection
Broadly inclusive term
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
Gaia_philosophy
Six pseudocylindrical map projections
The Eckert projections are six pseudocylindrical map projections devised by Max Eckert-Greifendorff, who presented them in 1906. The latitudes are parallel
Eckert_projection
Cylindrical equidistant map projection
is a simple map projection attributed to Marinus of Tyre who, Ptolemy claims, invented the projection about AD 100. The projection maps meridians to
Equirectangular_projection
Pseudocylindrical equal-area map projection
projection) is a pseudocylindrical, equal-area, composite map projection used for world maps. Normally it is presented with multiple interruptions, most
Goode_homolosine_projection
Polyhedral conformal map projection
of map projections AuthaGraph projection, another tetrahedral projection, 1999 Dymaxion map, 1943 Peirce quincuncial projection, 1879 Polyhedral map projection
Lee conformal world in a tetrahedron
Lee_conformal_world_in_a_tetrahedron
1971 television film by Tom Gries
production, due to its complexity.[citation needed] The map used in the control center is a Dymaxion Map, designed by R. Buckminster Fuller, who was also listed
Earth_II
Large area of land
stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Michael Oppenheimer, 1998 (see map of Antarctica showing regions where bedrock is below sea level) Jonathan
Landmass
Overview of and topical guide to cartography
City map Contour map Dymaxion map Electronic map Fantasy map Geological map Nautical chart Pictorial maps Plan Plat Reversed map Road atlas Street map Thematic
Outline_of_cartography
Pseudoazimuthal compromise map projection
The Winkel tripel projection (Winkel III), a modified azimuthal map projection of the world, is one of three projections proposed by German cartographer
Winkel_tripel_projection
Azimuthal equidistant map projection
projection maps The azimuthal equidistant projection is an azimuthal map projection. It has the useful properties that all points on the map are at proportionally
Azimuthal equidistant projection
Azimuthal_equidistant_projection
Japanese architect (born 1971)
inventor of AuthaGraph, a unique world map projection, that is loosely based on Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion map. Narukawa had designed a simplified tensegrity
Hajime_Narukawa
Azimuthal perspective map projection
d'Aguilon of Antwerp promoted its present name in 1613. The earliest surviving maps on the projection appear as crude woodcut drawings of terrestrial globes
Orthographic_map_projection
Polyhedral compromise map projection
for coordinate calculations. Cartography World map Map projection List of map projections Dymaxion map Bernard J. S. Cahill Octant projection Lobner,
Cahill–Keyes_projection
Conic equal-area map projection
equal-area conic projection, or Albers projection, is a conic, equal area map projection that uses two standard parallels. Although scale and shape are
Albers_projection
Adaptation of the standard Mercator projection
The transverse Mercator map projection (TM, TMP) is an adaptation of the standard Mercator projection. The transverse version is widely used in national
Transverse Mercator projection
Transverse_Mercator_projection
Azimuthal equal-area map projection
zenithal equal-area projection. The Lambert azimuthal projection is used as a map projection in cartography. For example, the National Atlas of the US uses
Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection
Lambert_azimuthal_equal-area_projection
Extinct species of mammoth
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
Woolly_mammoth
Method of projecting a sphere to the plane
The Werner projection is a pseudoconic equal-area map projection sometimes called the Stab–Werner or Stabius–Werner projection. Like other heart-shaped
Werner_projection
Pseudocylindrical equal-area map projection
Mollweide projection is an equal-area, pseudocylindrical map projection generally used for maps of the world or celestial sphere. It is also known as the
Mollweide_projection
Form of high-tech architecture
conserved Earth's precious resources, he backed up this concept with his Dymaxion Map launched as "World Game: a unique experiment to develop a computer coordinated
British high-tech architecture
British_high-tech_architecture
Map projection historically used for maps of the United States
of the United States, the American polyconic projection is a map projection used for maps of the United States and its regions beginning early in the 19th
American_polyconic_projection
Pseudocylindrical compromise map projection
The Kavrayskiy VII projection is a map projection invented by Soviet cartographer Vladimir V. Kavrayskiy in 1939 for use as a general-purpose pseudocylindrical
Kavrayskiy_VII_projection
Class of map projections
Polyconic can refer either to a class of map projections or to a specific projection known less ambiguously as the American polyconic projection. Polyconic
Polyconic_projection_class
Pseudocylindrical equal-area map projection
Boggs eumorphic projection is a pseudocylindrical, equal-area map projection used for world maps. Normally it is presented with multiple interruptions. Its
Boggs_eumorphic_projection
Pseudocylindrical equal-area map projection
The sinusoidal projection is a pseudocylindrical equal-area map projection, sometimes called the Sanson–Flamsteed or the Mercator equal-area projection
Sinusoidal_projection
Conic conformal map projection
A Lambert conformal conic projection (LCC) is a conic map projection used for aeronautical charts, portions of the State Plane Coordinate System, and
Lambert conformal conic projection
Lambert_conformal_conic_projection
Projection of a sphere through its center onto a plane
projection is the n-dimensional generalization of the trigonometric tangent which maps from the circle to a straight line, and as with the tangent, every pair of
Gnomonic_projection
Characterization of distortion in map projections
Auguste Tissot in 1859 and 1871 to characterize local distortions due to map projection. It is the geometry that results from projecting a circle of infinitesimal
Tissot's_indicatrix
Mercator variant map projection
Maps adopted it in 2005. It is used by virtually all major online map providers, including Google Maps, CARTO, Mapbox, Bing Maps, OpenStreetMap, MapQuest
Web_Mercator_projection
Pseudocylindrical compromise map projection
The Ortelius oval projection is a map projection used for world maps largely in the late 16th and early 17th century. It is neither conformal nor equal-area
Ortelius_oval_projection
Pseudoazimuthal compromise map projection
The Aitoff projection is a modified azimuthal map projection proposed by David A. Aitoff in 1889. Based on the equatorial form of the azimuthal equidistant
Aitoff_projection
American artist
Stephan created the cast iron Flat World/Round Map. It is a reproduction of Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion map but rounded rather than flat. In 2017, during
Aaron_T_Stephan
Polyhedral equal-area map projection
quadrilateralized spherical cube, or quad sphere for short, is an equal-area polyhedral map projection and discrete global grid scheme for data collected on a spherical
Quadrilateralized spherical cube
Quadrilateralized_spherical_cube
Pseudocylindrical equal-area map projection
family of equal-area pseudocylindrical projections that may be used for world maps. Waldo R. Tobler introduced the construction in 1973 as the hyperelliptical
Tobler hyperelliptical projection
Tobler_hyperelliptical_projection
Map projections devised by Oswald Winkel
The Winkel projection is a group of three map projections proposed in 1921 by the German cartographer Oswald Winkel (7 January 1874 – 18 July 1953). Winkel
Winkel_projection
Pseudoazimuthal equal-area map projection
The Hammer projection is an equal-area map projection described by Ernst Hammer in 1892. Using the same 2:1 elliptical outer shape as the Mollweide projection
Hammer_projection
Pseudocylindrical equal-area map projection
The Eckert IV projection is an equal-area pseudocylindrical map projection. The length of the polar lines is half that of the equator, and lines of longitude
Eckert_IV_projection
Pseudocylindrical compromise map projection
Wagner VI is a pseudocylindrical whole Earth map projection. Like the Robinson projection, it is a compromise projection, not having any special attributes
Wagner_VI_projection
Map projection
The Guyou hemisphere-in-a-square projection is a conformal map projection for the hemisphere. It is an oblique aspect of the Peirce quincuncial projection
Guyou hemisphere-in-a-square projection
Guyou_hemisphere-in-a-square_projection
Cylindrical equal-area map projection
The Hobo–Dyer map projection is a normal cylindrical equal-area projection, with standard parallels (there is no north-south or east-west distortion)
Hobo–Dyer_projection
Map projection
Space-oblique Mercator projection is a map projection devised in the 1970s for preparing maps from Earth-survey satellite data. It is a generalization
Space-oblique Mercator projection
Space-oblique_Mercator_projection
Pseudoconical compromise map projection
The rectangular polyconic projection is a map projection was first mentioned in 1853 by the United States Coast Survey, where it was developed and used
Rectangular polyconic projection
Rectangular_polyconic_projection
World map projection
The Nicolosi globular projection is a polyconic map projection invented about the year 1000 by the Muslim Persian polymath al-Biruni. As a circular representation
Nicolosi_globular_projection
Azimuthal perspective map projection
The General Perspective projection is a map projection. When the Earth is photographed from space, the camera records the view as a perspective projection
General Perspective projection
General_Perspective_projection
Geographic coordinate specifying north-south position
tropics is it possible for the Sun to be directly overhead (at the zenith). On map projections there is no universal rule as to how meridians and parallels
Latitude
Pseudocylindrical equal-area map projection
an algorithm for pixelisation of the 2-sphere and the associated class of map projections. The pixelisation algorithm was devised in 1997 by Krzysztof
HEALPix
The list of national coordinate reference systems (CRS) lists map projections officially recommended for existing countries. Given that every projection
List of national coordinate reference systems
List_of_national_coordinate_reference_systems
Cylindrical compromise map projection
as: "ESRI:54080" and "+proj=comill". List of map projections Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections, John P. Snyder, 1993, pp. 179
Miller_cylindrical_projection
Cylindrical compromise map projection
being on the equator on the opposite side of the earth from the point being mapped and with the projective surface being a cylinder secant to the sphere at
Gall_stereographic_projection
Retroazimuthal compromise map projection
The Craig retroazimuthal map projection was created by James Ireland Craig in 1909. It is a modified cylindrical projection. As a retroazimuthal projection
Craig retroazimuthal projection
Craig_retroazimuthal_projection
Family of map projections
cylindrical equal-area projection is a family of normal cylindrical, equal-area map projections. The invention of the Lambert cylindrical equal-area projection
Cylindrical equal-area projection
Cylindrical_equal-area_projection
trimetric projection is a map projection where three points are fixed on the globe and the points on the sphere are mapped onto a plane by triangulation
Chamberlin trimetric projection
Chamberlin_trimetric_projection
Pseudocylindrical equal-area map projection
The Eckert II projection is an equal-area pseudocylindrical map projection. In the equatorial aspect (where the equator is shown as the horizontal axis)
Eckert_II_projection
Pseudoazimuthal equal-area map projection
equal-area projection, or Strebe equal-area polyconic projection is an equal-area map projection presented by Daniel "daan" Strebe in 1994. Strebe designed the
Strebe_1995_projection
Two-point equidistant map projection
The two-point equidistant projection or doubly equidistant projection is a map projection first described by Hans Maurer in 1919 and Charles Close in 1921
Two-point equidistant projection
Two-point_equidistant_projection
Pseudocylindrical compromise map projection
The Natural Earth projection is a pseudocylindrical map projection designed by Tom Patterson and introduced in 2008. It is neither conformal nor equal-area
Natural_Earth_projection
Conformal map projection
The Adams hemisphere-in-a-square is a conformal map projection for a hemisphere. It is a transverse version of the Peirce quincuncial projection, and
Adams hemisphere-in-a-square projection
Adams_hemisphere-in-a-square_projection
Pseudoconical compromise map projection
projection (Chinese: 等差分纬线多圆锥投影) is a polyconic map projection in use since 1963 in mainland China. Maps on this projection are produced by China's State
Latitudinally equal-differential polyconic projection
Latitudinally_equal-differential_polyconic_projection
Cylindrical perspective map projection
The central cylindrical projection is a perspective cylindrical map projection. It corresponds to projecting the Earth's surface onto a cylinder tangent
Central cylindrical projection
Central_cylindrical_projection
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