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Dymaxion Airocean World Map:
"I developed the map so that I could see the whole world at once without any visible distortion of the relative shape or size of any of the data; and also as a method of being able to see the whole world at once without any break in the continental contours.
"I first tried to do this in the early 30s by employing the Mercator projection, by using the 90th meridian instead of the equator as the base line. This provided the One-world Island and the one-world ocean, as hoped for. This is the basis for the projection I made in the end pages of NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON, published in 1938-- and as modeled for me by the puppeteer Bil Baird in 1936.
“When Life magazine decided to go with my map, their art editor insisted on orienting it around the north-south polar axis. My friend Ricky Harrison was given the task of producing the cartographic work and he did not understand that I had discovered a new mathematical method of projecting from a sphere to a planar surface. He used a conventional projection which produced a non-uniform boundary scale around the square and triangular components of which the Life Magazine edition of my map consists.”
