- Distortion class
- Compromise
- Graticule type
- Interrupted polyhedral
- Creator
- Richard Buckminster Fuller (and Shoji Sadao)
- Year
- 1954
- Area
- Compromise: not equal-area, but area distortion is very small (usually within a few percent on our map)
- Shape
- Compromise: small shape distortion because each of the 20 triangles is projected separately; the cuts run through the oceans
- Distances
- Compromise: scale is true along the triangle edges and decreases toward their centers; distances cannot be measured across the ocean cuts
- Angles and directions
- Compromise: not conformal; angular distortion is small, but directions break at the triangle edges
Add countries from the tools panel and drag them to other latitudes. The outline keeps its true shape and area on the globe, so any change in its size on the map shows this projection's distortion. Tissot's indicatrices and the area distortion map show the same effect across the whole world.
