From: geoman (geogeo9090_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/05/03
Message-ID: <20030105232503.42488.qmail@web14805.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 15:25:03 -0800 (PST) From: geoman <geogeo9090_at_yahoo.com> Subject: What about paneled domes
Since these geodesic domes look great with just the struts and hubs, we all know that eventually that structure if it where a home, will have to be sheated in with plywood or whatever. I have an idea to eliminate the hubs. Why not just erect flat panels and bolt the panels together on edge?. I was playing around with what I call a 2 frequency truncated icosahedron that has 80 hexagons and 12 pentagons. I drew that model on a rubber lacrosse ball with pen. It took 5 hours to do. This symmetry looks promising for constructing a paneled dome using only pre sheated hexagons. The hexagons would all be edge bolted together. Until you have a model of this you won't appreciate the idea. A neat thing about this polyhedra is that if you leave out a few panels here and there, you create skylights. doors and window openings!.
Any thoughts about that approach or has it be done to any great extent.
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