Polyhedral map projection
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title:
Polyhedral map projection
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A polyhedral map projection is a map projection based on a spherical polyhedron. Typically, the polyhedron is overlaid on the globe, and each face of the polyhedron is transformed to a polygon or other shape in the plane. The best-known polyhedral map projection is Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion map. When the spherical polyhedron faces are transformed to the faces of an ordinary polyhedron instead of laid flat in a plane, the result is a polyhedral globe. Often the polyhedron used is a Platonic s
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Type of map projection
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyhedral_map_projection
date created:
2021-11-29T00:52:26Z
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2024-09-06T05:27:20Z
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