Map for Thought

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From 1927 to 1954 Buckminster Fuller worked on what would become the Dymaxion Map. As you may well know the mathematics involved to turn a sphere into a flat surface are very complex, and the maps we usually use have a great margin of projection errors.
Fuller was looking for a way to produce a distorsionless map. The method he used, an unfolded icosahedron, results in nearly no distortion of either size or shape of the landmasses. Click here for an animation.