Mapping the Mapper

August 14, 2012 4:16 AM

THE FULLER MAP This document is a study of the comprehensive designer Buckminster Fuller, an outstanding character of the 20th century, and a kind of practical visionary. [...] This presentation of his ideas is not intended as a slavish devotional exercise, nor a piece of cynical criticism. Part of the plan here is to investigate the logic of synergetics. At this stage the account is verbal, not visual, but what is important in geometry is the logic rather than the pictures. The text is a work-in-progress, begun in August 1991, and originally written to meet the structural requirements of John Wood's IDEAbase system. It was compiled and edited as an experimental, dynamic, interactive, screen-based document. It was not, therefore, intended as a completed linear text to be printed onto paper or other static medium.
posted by infini (2 comments total)

I was kind of hoping this would be about Fuller's weird and wonderful Dymaxion (video) map.
posted by the man of twists and turns at 4:24 AM on August 14, 2012 [3 favorites]

It's about almost everything Fuller did, so the Dymaxion Map is in there.
posted by BrotherCaine at 3:45 AM on August 16, 2012