Information Is BeautifulAnother reasons to tut at the Mercator Map projection - how a circle with a radius of 5,000km, centred on Paris, looks according the Mercator map
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Doug Whitfield [Minneapolis]@coffee @infobeautiful Dymaxion seems very strange, but based on the description I should like it. Tell me more.
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Dymaxion maps the globe onto an icosahedron, which is the regular polyhedron closest to a sphere, then unwraps the icosahedron
In the variant shown here, it's used to (over-)emphasise the connectedness of the landmasses