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== Influence == A 1967 [[Jasper Johns]] painting, ''Map (Based on Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Airocean World)'', depicting a Dymaxion map, hangs in the permanent collection of the [[Museum Ludwig]] in [[Cologne]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kulturelles-erbe-koeln.de/documents/obj/05010054|title=Kulturelles Erbe Köln: Johns, Jasper, Map (Weltkarte)|website=www.kulturelles-erbe-koeln.de|language=en|access-date=2017-01-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kulturelles-erbe-koeln.de/documents/aus/05094087|title=Ausstellung "Ludwig goes Pop"}}</ref> The [[World Game]], a collaborative simulation game in which players attempt to solve world problems,<ref>{{cite web|last=Richards|first=Allen|title=R. Buckminster Fuller: Designer of the Geodesic Dome and the World Game|url=http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/the-plowboy-interview-r-buckminster-fuller.aspx?PageId=1|publisher=Mother Earth News|access-date=19 January 2014|date=May–June 1971}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Aigner|first=Hal|title=Sustaining Planet Earth: Researching World Resources|url=http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/world-resources-zmaz70ndzgoe.aspx|publisher=Mother Earth News|access-date=19 January 2014|date=November–December 1970}}</ref> is played on a 70-by-35-foot Dymaxion map.<ref>{{cite news|last=Perry|first=Tony|title=This Game Anything but Child's Play : Buckminster Fuller's creation aims to fight the real enemies of mankind: starvation, disease and illiteracy|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-10-02-me-52516-story.html|newspaper=The Los Angeles Times|access-date=19 January 2014|date=October 2, 1995}}</ref> In 2013, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the publication of the Dymaxion map in ''Life'' magazine, the Buckminster Fuller Institute announced the "Dymax Redux", a competition for graphic designers and visual artists to re-imagine the Dymaxion map.<ref name="DYMAX REDUX Winner">{{cite web|title=DYMAX REDUX Winner|url=http://www.bfi.org/mapcontest|publisher=The Buckminster Fuller Institute|access-date=21 January 2014|archive-date=2 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202093941/http://www.bfi.org/mapcontest|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Campbell-Dollaghan|first=Kelsey|title=7 Brilliant Reinventions of Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Map|url=https://gizmodo.com/7-brilliant-reinventions-of-buckminster-fullers-dymaxi-867929593|website=Gizmodo|access-date=21 January 2014|date=July 22, 2013}}</ref> The competition received over 300 entries from 42 countries.<ref name="DYMAX REDUX Winner"/> The H3 hierarchical [[discrete global grid|global grid]] implemented by [[Uber]] uses an icosahedron oriented in Dymaxion orientation, then further subdivided into hexagons.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.uber.com/blog/h3/ |website=Uber Blog |last=Brodsky |first=Isaac |title=H3: Uber's Hexagonal Hierarchical Spatial Index |date=June 27, 2018 }} {{pb}} {{cite web |title= Overview of the H3 Geospatial Indexing System |website=H3 documentation |publisher=Uber |url=https://h3geo.org/docs/core-library/overview/ }}</ref> In 2020, a collaborative effort by thousands of [[Minecraft]] players, the [[Build the Earth]] project, used Strebe's conformal variant as a projection for building a 1:1 scale representation of the Earth inside the game.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Karel |first=Daniel |date=March 10, 2022 |title=The 2,731-Person Project to Build New York City in Minecraft |url=https://www.curbed.com/2022/03/global-minecraft-team-building-new-york-city.html |access-date=2024-09-03 |website=Curbed }}</ref>
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