From: "Haradring Terraincognita" Newsgroups: alt.bucky-fuller References: Subject: Re: Geodesic Dome Calculations Lines: 42 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 19:53:32 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.224.149.177 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 939174494 207.224.149.177 (Tue, 05 Oct 1999 20:48:14 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 20:48:14 CDT Organization: U S WEST Interprise Xref: mindspring alt.bucky-fuller:534 Ideas and Integrities, by R Buckminster Fuller. Collier Books, 1969 319 pgs. The Dome Builders Handbook, edit by John Prenis. Running Press, 1973 107 pgs. if you can find either... also subscribe to bit.listserv.geodesic - over time, many usefull links and bits of information will appear. you can subsribe to bit...geodesic in the form of an email list by going to: http://www.hoflin.com/dome.html several of the list members have extensive knowledge of geodesic math. William L. Bahn wrote in message ... >I am doing initial familiarization work that will hopefully culminate in a >geodesic dome house in the next couple of years. > >I have been looking for reference materials on geodesic domes - particularly >the math behind them with a focus on determining the lengths of the struts >that compose the constituent triangles. I have found numerous sites - some >commercial and some private - that have lots of pictures of dome homes or >lots of text about the history and some of the uses of geodesic domes. But I >haven't been able to locate a site that goes into the technical details of >dome design. I have also searched local and on-line bookstores and have >found basically the same thing. I have what is supposed to be a children's >book (can't recall author's name) on domes on order that supposedly covers >some of the math involved. > >Would appreciate any pointers to web sites, texts or FAQs that might get me >going in the right direction. > >TIA