2012-04-08
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Sam Griffin, on his artwork The Olduvai Cliff:
“This crypt finds its visual focal point in a neon outline of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Projection - the flattened version of the polyhedral shape created by the mathematician to display a map of the world. Here it is re-purposed as a religious symbol, geometric shorthand for Fuller’s holistic acknowledgement of the finite nature of natural resources.”
(via iamdanw, Dymaxion map poster extraordinaire). (See also: a Dymaxion map of human migration from east Africa.)
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Emirates route map (via iamdanw, geotheory.org).
It’s interesting that this largely means the routes are straight lines, but there’s some grouping near Dubai, and the routes to South America have a discontinuity at the top of the map. You could avoid that, but only by splitting the continents instead. Still, fascinating choices.
