Attempting to create Buckminster Fuller's "Fly's Eye Dome"

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Permalink Reply by Jon Mirtschin on November 15, 2011 at 1:43pm

Interesting dome, I hadn't seen this variation before.

 

You can get pretty close to it with StructDrawRhino/Grasshopper, although the "stressed" surface has more of a ridge than I'd like.  Hope it helps regardless, installation instructions for StructDrawRhino outlined here:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/geometrygym/forum/topics/install...

 

Cheers,

 

Jon

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Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on November 15, 2011 at 1:46pm

nice, whats the c# component doing?

Permalink Reply by Jon Mirtschin on November 15, 2011 at 2:11pm

Splitting the dome faces with the circles.  I never found a satisfactory means to do this without reverting to a script or solids, maybe I'm missing something?