| SELECTED IDEAS OF BUCKMINSTER FULLER |
| TETRAHEDRA |
| LOW DISTORTION MAPPING |
Fuller found a way to translate information from curved to flat surfaces & vice versa in such a manner that there was minimal distortion of the data. |
His technique works for polygons whose edges are equal, such as a tetrahedron, octahedron, cube, icosahedron, vector equilibrium, dodecahedron, etc. |
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He preferred the icosahedron
because it has the greatest
number of equilateral triangles. |
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| It makes no difference whether
the data is on the outside
or inside surface. |
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| U S Industrialization | R Buckminster Fuller | Fortune magazine | 02-01-40 | pp 50-57 |
| Fluid Geography | " | The American Neptune magazine | 04-01-44 | pp 119-36 |
| Dymaxion Map | " | US Patent 2,393,676 | 01-29-46 |
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| The Dymaxion World of R B Fuller | R Marks & R B Fuller | - | 1973 | pp 50-1, 150-9 |
| Synergetics | R Buckminster Fuller | - | 1975 | section 1100.00 |
| Synergetics 2 | " | - | 1979 | section 1100.00 |
| Inventions | " | - | 1983 | pp 85-94 |
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