The Dymaxion map or Fuller map is a projection of a world map onto the surface of an icosahedron, which can be unfolded and flattened to two dimensions. The flat map is heavily interrupted in order to preserve shapes and sizes.
Image: Tobias jung tissot 30 dymaxion fuller projection
Image: Tobias jung tissot 30 dymaxion like conformal projection
In cartography, a map projection is any of a broad set of transformations employed to represent the curved two-dimensional surface of a globe on a plane. In a map projection, coordinates, often expressed as latitude and longitude, of locations from the surface of the globe are transformed to coordinates on a plane.
Projection is a necessary step in creating a two-dimensional map and is one of the essential elements of cartography.
The equal-area Mollweide projection
A two-point equidistant projection of Eurasia
Image: Tobler hyperelliptical projection SW
Image: Mollweide projection SW