Geodesic Math and How to Use It

by Hugh Kenner

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.

Genres: Mathematics

184 pages, Paperback

First published January 28, 1976

Reviews

[Bruce · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nowadays it =may= be the case that one can find this information on the internet, but when I read this it opened up a whole world.

The best of this describes the increasingly wooly territory outside of the often built icosahedral domes. There are octahedral domes, tetrahedral domes, and, gasp, irregular domes. It has been the case for me that irregular domes built on an octahedral geometry have suited my projects and the available materials better... and that's the point.

Get this book if you are good at maths and want to have a much wider solution space available for your projects.

If you can find windome.exe on the internet and a good rendering program, and then explore all the options, you may be able to skip the maths, or maybe even this book.

[Anurag Tiwari · Rating 3 out of 5]

I want to Read this book.