Buckminster Fuller
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Buckminster Fuller with Dymaxion polyhedral map projection,
patented by him in 1946, and a recent icosahedral version, with animation
Credits: Buckminster Fuller Institute and Chris Rywalt, also Wikipedia
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Prior art!
Albrecht Durer's 1538 projection of the globe on a different regular solid, the dodecahedron. Fuller oriented the faces of his polyhedron to continental land masses, but otherwise used Durer's concept without attribution. His patent included all such projections on polyhedral solids, in conflict with Durer's work which preceded his by 400 years.
Alex 11:11, 2 May 2007 (EDT)
Illustration from Snyder, John P. Flattening the Earth: two thousand years of map projections. University of Chicago Press, 1993. ISBN 0-226-76747-7
