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Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion map unfolds Earth from an icosahedron, keeping continents unbroken in its principal layout while concentrating interruptions in the oceans.

Unfolding a less divided planet

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The idea in context

Fuller developed the projection from the 1930s and later refined it with Shoji Sadao. Its triangular faces can unfold in several arrangements rather than centring one nation or dividing the globe into customary hemispheres. In the best-known layout, the cuts fall mainly through oceans and the continents remain visually continuous around the Arctic. The geometry also makes an argument: political borders need not dictate how a planet is framed.

Türkçe

Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

Buckminster Fuller'ın Dymaxion haritası Dünya'yı bir ikosahedronun yüzlerinden açar; başlıca düzeninde kıtaları bölmeden kesintileri okyanuslarda yoğunlaştırır.
Daha az bölünmüş bir gezegeni açmak

Fuller, izdüşümü 1930'lardan itibaren geliştirdi; daha sonra Shoji Sadao ile inceltti. Üçgen yüzler, tek bir ülkeyi merkeze almak ya da küreyi alışıldık yarımkürelere ayırmak yerine farklı düzenlerde açılabilir. En bilinen düzende kesikler büyük ölçüde okyanuslardan geçer, kıtalar Kuzey Kutbu çevresinde görsel sürekliliğini korur. Geometri aynı zamanda bir sav ileri sürer: gezegenin nasıl çerçeveleneceğini siyasi sınırlar belirlemek zorunda değildir.

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