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Old 05-22-2007, 08:09 AM   #33 (permalink)
star-art
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Nice work so far! I was wondering how you guys built these kinds of domes/spheres. I figured there might be some special tools in your program to make it easier (like a geometric solids generator).

I built a 12-frequency, 3/8 geodesic dome from scratch for my Valley Forge project. You can check it out in the 3D WIP section.

I'm using an old version of Rhino and had to make one with splines. After some research, I couldn't find much in the way of tutorials on how to design a geodesic dome. I finally figured it out though and managed to map out all the triangles onto a sphere using projection from an underlying icosahedron. Whew! What a chore that was. But at least now I know how to do it. . .

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