Steve Waterman's butterfly, published in 1996, developing Bernard J. S. Cahill's butterfly idea of 1909.
The globe is mapped to a truncated octahedron and unfolded into eight lobes. Cutting the map through ocean keeps every continent whole and nearly undistorted — the trade is a silhouette that no rectangle can hold.
Preserves: a balance struck between area, shape and distance.
Steve Waterman's butterfly, published in 1996, developing Bernard J. S. Cahill's butterfly idea of 1909. The globe is mapped to a truncated octahedron and unfolded into eight lobes.
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