Editing Dymaxion map (section)

== History ==

The March 1, 1943, edition of [[Life (magazine)|''Life'' magazine]] included a photographic essay titled "Life Presents R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion World", illustrating a projection onto a [[cuboctahedron]], including several examples of possible arrangements of the square and triangular pieces, and a pull-out section of one-sided magazine pages with the map faces printed on them, intended to be cut out and glued to card stock to make a three-dimensional cuboctahedron or its two-dimensional net.<ref name=life1943>{{cite magazine|title=Life Presents R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion World|magazine=[[Life (magazine)|LIFE]]|date=1 March 1943|pages=41–55|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WlEEAAAAMBAJ&q=March%201%2C%201943%20Life&pg=PA41}}</ref> Fuller applied for a patent in the United States in February 1944 for the cuboctahedron projection, which was issued in January 1946.<ref>{{US Patent|2393676}}</ref>

In 1954, Fuller and cartographer [[Shoji Sadao]] produced a new map onto an icosahedron instead of the cuboctahedron. It depicts Earth's continents as "one island", or nearly [[Geographic contiguity|contiguous]] land masses. References today to the Fuller projection or Dymaxion usually indicate this version.