April 21, 2009
Dymaxion Elementary

Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map painted on a wall at Becker Elementary on 906 West Milton St., Austin, Texas. [Google Map].
“Unlike most other projections, the Dymaxion is intended purely for representations of the entire globe. It is not a gnomonic projection, whereby global data expands from the center point of a tangent facet outward to the edges. Instead, each triangle edge of the Dymaxion map matches the scale of a partial great circle on a corresponding globe, and other points within each facet shrink toward its middle, rather than enlarging to the peripheries.”
– Fuller, Ideas and Integrities (1969 ed., p. 139) [via Wikipedia].
Here it is with Google “street view.”
If you are the painter of this mural, please contact me, so that I can give proper credit on this page.
