"You may be a construction worker working on a home
You may be living in a mansion or you might live in a dome…"
Cosmic, or what?
Although I gave up on domes (as homes) in the '70s, I still am fascinated by the math, by the 5 regular and 13 Archimedean solids, by the appearance of these shapes here and there in nature, by the beauty and truth of geometric mathematics.
http://www.kuriositas.com/2011/05/geodesic-magic-theres-no-place-like.html
4 comments:
Lloyd, did I notice a well-marked dodecahedron in your HongKong YWCA Hotel photo? :-)
I learnt from Hugh Kenner's book that geodesic domes are a special case of tensegrity structures. I am curious to know if you experimented with tensegrity structures, that are not domes?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1NsRlhxuwE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Ny3BfhVdw
Here's the correct link for Lloyd's post: http://www.kuriositas.com/2011/05/geodesic-magic-theres-no-place-like.html
Anonymous, No, never did build any tensegrity structures. My friend Bob Easton and I visited Hugh when he lived in Santa Barbara and he showed us a 1-meter tensegrity sphere he had painstakingly built.
Pretty good eye! That is (for lack of a better name) a Rubik's dodecahedron on the bed. I got it on the street in HK and am giving to to a math-inclined friend who's a Rubik's Cube aficionado.. Beautiful object.
I was married in a dome, a religious center on a midwest college campus. It's still there, functioning, with a supporting group to maintain and improve it.
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