“Dymaxion” Map,
Cartography Patent
R. BUCKMINSTER
FULLER
(1944):
DYMAXION MAP (1946):*
Plan of the patent of the Dymaxion projection. The six squares and eight spherical triangles that result from the cuboctahedron’s outward projection are divided into a regular grid of squares and equilateral triangles.
Shoji Sadao, Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for a New Millennium, T. K. Zung, ed.