Dymaxion map
Mapa Dymaxion
- Date
- 1943 (versión icosaédrica en 1954) · confidence high
- Place
- New York City, United States
- Credited to
- Buckminster Fuller
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What it is
A map projection that unfolds the globe onto the faces of a polyhedron (a cuboctahedron in 1943, an icosahedron from 1954), placing the interruptions in the oceans to reduce distortion between continents.
What it led to
- world maps with less relative size and shape distortion
- influence on later interrupted projections
- use in design, education and geographic outreach
- an emblem of Buckminster Fuller's systems thinking