the first Bucky Balls
Buckminster Fuller took geodesics and created a mapping projection based on it -- Dymaxion.
The Dymaxion projection doesn't present the Earth as a 'neat' rectangle but it does show all of the continents with minimal distortion compared to the huge polar regions of the Mercator projection.
This
web site has a wonderful Flash animation of the Earths Globe and it expands out into a Dymaxion Map of the world.
Very cool stuff... More on Dymaxion Projections
can be found here.
Posted by DaveH at December 8, 2004 7:56 PM