Geodesic Math and How to Use ItUniversity of California Press, 20 oct 2003 - 172 páginas It was 1976—twenty-five years after R. Buckminster Fuller introduced geodesic domes when literary critic Hugh Kenner published this fully-illustrated practical manual for their construction. Now, some twenty-five years later, Geodesic Math and How to Use It again presents a systematic method of design and provides a step-by-step method for producing mathematical specifications for orthodox geodesic domes, as well as for a variety of elliptical, super-elliptical, and other nonspherical contours. Out of print since 1990, Geodesic Math and How To Use It is California's most requested backlist title. This edition is fully illustrated with complete original appendices. |
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Tendon System Minima | 34 |
Rigid Tensegrities | 43 |
Symmetry Systems | 54 |
The SphericalCoordinate System | 61 |
Choosing a Polyhedron | 70 |
Using the Tables | 79 |
Ellipses and Superellipses | 91 |
Truncations | 97 |
An Advanced Problem | 104 |
Space Frames | 112 |
About Angles | 118 |
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3v Class 3v icosa 3v octa arctan axial angle Buckminster Fuller calculate Chapter chord factors CLASS I COORDINATES Class II breakdown Class II Method Class II triangle compressive Coordinate Rotation cuboctahedron diamond dihedral angles dip angle distance Domebook ellipse Equation 9.2 equilateral equilibrium exponent face angle face triangle flat frequency geodesic domes geodesic sphere geodesic structures great-circle hedron hemisphere icosa Class icosa edge icosa face icosahedral icosahedron inches lesser circles member lengths midedge midpoint obtain octa face octahedral octahedron outward pairs parallel struts pent points polyhedra polyhedron pull radii rotation rotation formulae shown in Diagram shows sightlines simple sin² six great circles six-strut Tensegrity spherical coordinates spherical excess spherical Tensegrities strut length subdivision superellipse Superellipsoid symmetry triangle tendon length Tensegrity sphere Tensegrity system tensile planes tension tetrahedron triangular truncation plane Valence-4 values vertex vertices yields zenith
