Facing the Mercator projection that warped the sizes of countries as they were distanced from the equator, Fuller sought a new system that would allow him to graphically analyze the relationship between the sizes of different countries and regions of the globe with respect to the sizes of different countries and regions of the globe with respect to the determined parameters of wealth or industrial development.
Frente a la proyección Mercator, que distorsionaba los tamaños de los países a medida que se alejaban del ecuador, Fuller buscó un nuevo sistema que le permitiese analizar gráficamente la relación entre los tamaños de los distintos países y regiones del globo con respecto a determinados parámetros de riqueza o de desarrollo industrial.