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plouvart committed Nov 1, 2024
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The Dymaxion Fuller map projection is a icosahedron polyhedral projection that intends
to lay out most of continental landmasses unto a flat surface with as few land cuts
as possible while minimizing scale and angular distorsion.
to lay down continental landmasses into a contiguous map with minimal scale and angular
distorsion while having as few land interruptions as possible.
In comparison to the Snyder's Icosahedral Equal Area, this projection relies on a specific way
to orient and cut the icosahedron so that most interruptions lie in the ocean. The projection
to orient and cut the icosahedron so that most interruptions lie within the ocean. The projection
was first invented by Buckminster Fuller in 1943 using a cubostahedron as basis.
The idea to use an icosahedron came later in 1954, and it wasn't until 1978 that the projection
was formally mathematically defined :cite:`Gray1995`.
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proj-string: ``+proj=dymaxion``

.. note::
The output dymaxion map applied to the whole globe has an extent of roughly
:math:`[0, 0, 17404000, 36844000]` in meters. Although the dymaxion map has no
true up or down, the choice was made to lay it out vertically, from Antartica to Australia.


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