¶ Internal Control of Distortion
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Internal Control of Distortion:
“It is also this method of uniformly progressive concentric correction by subsidence from spherical segment to plane geometry which provides the unique characteristic of this method of projection which distinguishes it from all other methods. This unique characteristic referred to is that the projected diagram retains true measurement, shape, direction, and distance throughout all of the enclosing boundaries of the segments with mathematically controlled distortion ‘massaged’ to the center of the projection areas. All other projections are true in measure, shaping, and direction only at an interior point or along one side or along one or several separated lines or arcs crossing the projection with progressive distortion articulated outwards toward one or more of the enclosing edges of the projected diagram. In other words, my new projection is uniformly corrected by internalization while all other projections are corrected by some systematic externalization of error. This allows of true external association of my projection units, which is impossible in all other methods demonstrated to date.”
¶ Citations
- Dymaxion Airocean World Map, (e)(f); 29 Apr’43
