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  2. Dymaxion - Wikipedia

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    Dymaxion is a term coined by architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller and associated with much of his work—prominently his Dymaxion house and Dymaxion car. Dymaxion, a portmanteau of the words dy namic , max imum , and tens ion ; [ 1 ] sums up the goal of his study, "maximum gain of advantage from minimal energy input."

  3. Dymaxion map - Wikipedia

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    The Dymaxion map projection, also called the Fuller projection, is a kind of polyhedral map projection of the Earth's surface onto the unfolded net of an icosahedron.The resulting map is heavily interrupted in order to reduce shape and size distortion compared to other world maps, but the interruptions are chosen to lie in the ocean.

  4. Dymaxion car - Wikipedia

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    The Dymaxion car was designed by American inventor Buckminster Fuller during the Great Depression and featured prominently at Chicago's 1933/1934 World's Fair. [1]

  5. Dymaxion house - Wikipedia

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    The Dymaxion House was developed by inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller to address several perceived shortcomings with existing homebuilding techniques. Fuller designed several versions of the house at different times—all of them factory manufactured kits, assembled on site, intended to be suitable for any site or environment and to use ...

  6. Buckminster Fuller - Wikipedia

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    A Dymaxion house at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Fuller's energy-efficient and inexpensive Dymaxion house garnered much interest, but only two prototypes were ever produced. Here the term "Dymaxion" is used in effect to signify a "radically strong and light tensegrity structure".

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    Lansing-based Dymaxion Development has purchased the former Sam's Club, Stock & Field property in South Lansing for $4.2 million. The company plans to repurpose the 140,000-square-foot space for ...

  8. Polyhedral map projection - Wikipedia

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    Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion map. 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.

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