Favourite Projections

[atpollard]

I like Dymaxion maps folded into a polyhedron ... so you can see the world as a world.
... but there should be 5 points at the top and bottom when displayed flat.

(The butterfly looked pretty interseting, too)

[Hai-Etlik]

I like Dymaxion maps folded into a polyhedron ... so you can see the world as a world.
... but there should be 5 points at the top and bottom when displayed flat.

The point of Dymaxion as opposed to just a plain Gnomonic Iscoceheadral is that it takes the continuity of the features being mapped into account when unfolding the net.

[atpollard]

The point of Dymaxion as opposed to just a plain Gnomonic Iscoceheadral is that it takes the continuity of the features being mapped into account when unfolding the net.

OK. Then Dymaxion stink (unless folded) and I like Gnomonic Iscoceheadral maps.

... Oceans, the source of all life on the Earth, really are the Red-Headed Stepchildren of you cartographers, are they not?

[Hai-Etlik]

OK. Then Dymaxion stink (unless folded) and I like Gnomonic Iscoceheadral maps.

... Oceans, the source of all life on the Earth, really are the Red-Headed Stepchildren of you cartographers, are they not?

There's an ocean oriented version of Dymaxion as well, which tries to place all the interruptions on land. That's why I specifically said "Features Being Mapped" not "Land".