20th March 2008, 01:46 PM
To get it past those Conservation Officers with obscure qualifications we are going to have to get some traditional vernacular geodetic dome speak into the act. Should it be based on the icosahedron, what frequency, etc I was thinking that iron age round houses might be a good place of inspiration. In fact the more I look at the really big iron age ones I am convinced that they must have been domes if they had any hope of being a structure at all particularly the ones which show no evidence of internal posts although even if they do they could have been for scaffolding. By reverse thinking this implys that the smaller ones were also domes. are we seeing decreaseing strut size to increasing radius over time. Could stonehenge no I cant.
This is quite a fun site. http://www.desertdomes.com/domecalc.html BamBoo I am currently cutting up drinking straws and unbending paper clips into circles to act as hubs (dome jargon for theres lots of ways to join short sticks together) and am attempting a 2V what ever that is (not sure if I claim the expense on the tax form as office supplies or research and design, what about my time, luckily I have to talk to my tax officer as they seem to Have got it in their heads that I should start paying this years tax when I haven?t finished paying last years)
This is quite a fun site. http://www.desertdomes.com/domecalc.html BamBoo I am currently cutting up drinking straws and unbending paper clips into circles to act as hubs (dome jargon for theres lots of ways to join short sticks together) and am attempting a 2V what ever that is (not sure if I claim the expense on the tax form as office supplies or research and design, what about my time, luckily I have to talk to my tax officer as they seem to Have got it in their heads that I should start paying this years tax when I haven?t finished paying last years)