a follow up question... how do I wrap a list onto itself at a certain frequency?
i.e. I want the list {1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9}
to become {1,4,7; 2,6,8; 3,6,9} wrapped every 3rd item
Added by Joshua Jordan at 5:30pm on November 17, 2012
plit each edge into 3 and join the dots to make 9 triangle on each face.
3. project the points of these triangles out onto a sphere with the same radius as the icosohedron.
maybe you can take the same approach but project out onto your olive shape? I don't think you will end up with only 4 tessellating shapes though....
If the base icosohedron of a geodesic dome is split into 9 triangles on each face you get a geodesic dome with 3 different corner geometries, 2 different triangular panels and 3 different length triangle edges. If the dome was elongated carefully you could probably restrict the resulting components of an olive shaped dome.
This will be a slightly different dome to your Rhombic Enneacontahedron too!…