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Yours is beautiful and eyecatching, but I love an intact and correctly scaled Antarctica. It's hard to find.
Yeah, the version in the comic has it as a separate piece under the butterfly instead of the tips of the wings, but it's not the same.
Yeah that's way less confusing.
To be fair the Dymaxion is less confusing if you add “fold here” lines... but then you end up with (an approximation of) a globe.
The same criticism is applicable to the Waterman, though; both are more unfolded globes than proper maps.
Yeah I know, it's just really confusing to look at.
But that's probably just due to the fact that the north pole is at the top and America is in the centre and not GMT/Europe
Why doesn't Antarctica get any respect on your map
Because not enough people live there, I suppose.
(If you look at the version in the comic, though, it's got Antarctica as a separate piece under the butterfly instead of split on the wingtips, so that's something, I suppose, even if it's not the same as a continuous map...)
Buckminster Fuller was obsessed with the word "dymaxion". It's like "X" with Musk.
Yeah well you can have a nice little dymaxion nap in your dymaxion house after driving home from your dymaxion job in your dymaxion car.
For reference:
Dymaxion house:
Dymaxion car:
The car - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_car
The dymaxion nap is a reference to polyphasic sleep which Fuller did for a while. To the best of my knowledge there is no dymaxion job.
It's a portmanteau of DYnamic MAXimum tensION. All the things he labeled with the term were supposed to follow a unifying design principle of maximum performance for minimal energy input, based on carefully optimized interplay of internal forces. In the case of the map, this manifested in the minimizing geographic distortion.
There is actually a second Dymaxion projection which preserves contiguity of water rather than land
I love the Dymaxion map and I was also the kid in high school chemistry class who, when we covered the allotropic forms of carbon, insisted that we also had to talk about buckminsterfullerene.
TIHI
also see xkcd