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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish29•6 months agoThe Dymaxion is great, but personally I’m partial to the Waterman Butterfly. Also, obligatory XKCD:
minus-squarePlumOPMlinkEnglish14•6 months agoYours is beautiful and eyecatching, but I love an intact and correctly scaled Antarctica. It’s hard to find.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•6 months agoYeah, the version in the comic has it as a separate piece under the butterfly instead of the tips of the wings, but it’s not the same.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•5 months agoBecause not enough people live there, I suppose. (If you look at the version in the comic, though, it’s got Antarctica as a separate piece under the butterfly instead of split on the wingtips, so that’s something, I suppose, even if it’s not the same as a continuous map…)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•5 months agoTo be fair the Dymaxion is less confusing if you add “fold here” lines… but then you end up with (an approximation of) a globe. The same criticism is applicable to the Waterman, though; both are more unfolded globes than proper maps.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•5 months agoYeah I know, it’s just really confusing to look at. But that’s probably just due to the fact that the north pole is at the top and America is in the centre and not GMT/Europe
The Dymaxion is great, but personally I’m partial to the Waterman Butterfly.
Also, obligatory XKCD:
Yours is beautiful and eyecatching, but I love an intact and correctly scaled Antarctica. It’s hard to find.
Yeah, the version in the comic has it as a separate piece under the butterfly instead of the tips of the wings, but it’s not the same.
Why doesn’t Antarctica get any respect on your map
Because not enough people live there, I suppose.
(If you look at the version in the comic, though, it’s got Antarctica as a separate piece under the butterfly instead of split on the wingtips, so that’s something, I suppose, even if it’s not the same as a continuous map…)
Yeah that’s way less confusing.
To be fair the Dymaxion is less confusing if you add “fold here” lines… but then you end up with (an approximation of) a globe.
The same criticism is applicable to the Waterman, though; both are more unfolded globes than proper maps.
Yeah I know, it’s just really confusing to look at.
But that’s probably just due to the fact that the north pole is at the top and America is in the centre and not GMT/Europe