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

by CC

Nov 15, 2011

Hello everyone,

I am attempting to recreate Buckminster Fuller's "Fly's Eye Dome", does anyone have a relatively simple definition for the peculiar shape??

Thank you :)

Conor Black

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Jon Mirtschin

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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