¶ Dymaxion Airocean World Map (3)
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Dymaxion Airocean World Map:
“degree-arc reach. The icosahedron’s edge is 63° 26’ 09.5”, which is just enough to provide water-to-water reach between the three great oceans. The icosahedron and its 12 vertices represents the denucleated phase of the nucleated vector equilibrium with its 12 vertices…
"Having found the frame which permitted showing the one-world ocean and the one-world island without any distortions or breaks in the continental contours, I settled upon this as being the most satisfactory means of humanity’s seeing the whole Airocean World at once. The Waterocean World was an east-west world; the Airocean World is a north-south world; and it is going to change human relations altogether. On my one-world island in one-world ocean arrangement, 90 percent of humanity can reach each other on the shortest great-circle air routes without going near the Atlantic, Pacific, or Indian Oceans… I have used this Airocean World Map as a background for all world resource-and-population-distribution expositions for the simple reason that uniform scale percentum graphics always displays on a uniform scale background, which no other projection provides.
¶ Citations
- RBF Ltr to Martin Gardner, 26 Aug’75
