geodesics
The first, and largest at 16 feet diameter, of philomorph’s steel balls. Made in 2006 (“of girders”, as they say in Scotland).
about this house
We came across this house, its geodesic sphere and sculptures, quite serendipitously, miles and miles down a dead-end road in the south of France, in June 2007. It would be my ideal home...
links
Tara Landry’s invisible calculator
Dome Living Magazine (abandoned site?)
Dome Times Magazine (new in 2010?)
domes and geodesic structures
The new, “green”, LED, ball at 1 Times Square in New York City that dropped at New Year 2008, was designed by Joe Clinton
Carol Geary’s magnificent stained glass Wholeo Dome
Blair Wolfram’s Dome Incorporated and his dome for the ice-drilling research station NEEM at 8,000’ altitude in in North Greenland
Three domes (see pictures below) constructed during the SNEC 2008 Summer workshop at SUNY Oswego, NY
my sphere
The Assembly of Geod has moved, and danger lurks on every, mmm... lawn.
There are cobwebs on my beloved geodesic sphere, and visitors risk unhappiness...
books
Dome Cookbook of Geodesic Geometry, by David Krushke,
2nd Edition, ©1972, 1975 2nd Edition - hard to find!
geodesic math and how to use it, Hugh Kenner, University of
California Press Berkeley, ©1976, 2nd PB Edn 2003
Spherical Models, Magnus J. Wenninger, Cambridge
University Press ©1976, Dover edition 1999
articles
Several articles on Fuller’s isotropic vector matrix by Jim Nystrom
NEWSFLASH - On Domes, Overwhelmingly Depressing!
Two ten-foot diameter snub dodecahedra, one left-handed and one right-handed, made out of steel tube in 2009 and each one suspended in a tree - go on, check out the photos if you don’t believe me.
A project for 2010 to (finally!) construct an enantiomeric (i.e. a left- or right-handed) triangulated geodesic sphere in the Arizona desert.
Completed in almost five hours (phew!) on the day before Thanksgiving.
