History
In 1946 Buckminster Fuller patented a projection method similar to the Gnomonic Projection in his cuboctahedral version of the Dymaxion Map. The 1954 icosahedral version he published under the title of AirOcean World Map, and this is the version most commonly referred to today.
Gnomonic projection is used extensively in photography, where it is called rectilinear projection.
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