Fuller Projection

{{Article The Fuller map projection is a world projection which is intended to represent the entire globe rather than a specific portion. This is opposed to most projections, which zone in on one area. Buckminster Fuller created the Fuller Projection in 1946. He projected the globe onto an icosahedron, which is then unfolded to create what he called a Dymaxion Map (see animation).
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Advantages
The Fuller projection has a few advantages over other compromise projections, such as:
 * Less distortion of area than the Mercator.
 * Less distortion of shapes than the Gall-Peters.
 * No correct "up" or "down" orientation, eliminating what Fuller considered "cultural bias."

Fuller used his dymaxion map to illustrate what he referred to variously as our island earth (with all the continents more or less connected in a single island) and spaceship earth (a concept not relevant to this encyclopedia). He believed common maps with their disconnected continents "reinforce the elements that separate humanity." His dymaxion map (dymaxion = dynamic + maximum + tension) was supposed to instead serve as "a precise means for seeing the world from the dynamic, cosmic and comprehensive viewpoint." }}