What About Bucky’s Map?
Editor:
Barry Evans’ column about the limitations of accuracy of world maps (Field Notes, July 29) has one important omission, Bucky Fuller’s Dymaxion World Map.
Imagine a globe centered inside of a geodesic solid, such as an icosahedron. With a light at the center of the globe, the map is projected onto the facets of the icosahedron, which is then unfolded along its edges to form a flat map. Distortion is very much reduced, as the angle of non-tangent projection is much smaller than the “conventional” mapping methods.
Bucky was awarded a patent for this mapping method in 1946. Incidentally, the patent office had ruled in 1900 that no other world map type patents would be awarded because all possible methods had
been discovered. They recanted.
Clay Johnson, Trinidad
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