¶ Dymaxion Airocean World Map (1)
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Dymaxion Airocean World Map:
"the tangent contact point of the circles and no hinging line of contact as is provided by my internally corrected triangle and square projection, which latter allows several sectional units of continental areas of the world map to be reunited as a whole within a symmetrically representative contour.
"This triangle and square system may be thought of as one in which a special set of spherical 180-degree gores have been subdivided so that each gore is symmetrically separated into three parts, two triangular ends and one square center, of equilateral 60 great circle boundary arc dimensions.
"Thus the two irreconcilable geometrical conditions of (1) central parallelism and (2) terminal convergence, demonstrated by spherical gore segments are __ formally segregated and resolved, each to its symmetrical unity of plane geometry square and triangles respectively.
“This resolution into triangles and squares allows of the formalized sections of gore surfaces being reunited on a plan in such a manner as to unbandage the sphere in perpendicular, diagonal or triangular direction or any developed synthesis thereof. This potential translation is indicated by the”
¶ Citations
- RBF Ltr. to Gilbert Grosnevor, Wash.,DC; 29 Apr’43
