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Informationen zum Autor Hugh Kenner (1923-2003) was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Georgia. He is the author of dozens of well-known and highly regarded books of literary criticism! and is also the author of Bucky: A Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller (1973) . Klappentext This is THE most requested UCP out-of-print title! It describes in detail how to arrive at the correct dimensions to build your very own geodesic dome. The audience is people who like to build things. Hippies. New-agers. Folks with initiative and a sense of adventure. Smart people. Zusammenfassung Twenty-five years after geodesic domes were first introduced, this text presents a 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis What This Book Is Part One Tensegritty 1. Weight vs. Tension 2. Spherical Tensegrities 3. Complex Spherical Tensegrities 4. Tendon System Minima 5. Geodesic Subdivision 6. Rigid Tensegrities Part Two Geodesics 7. Great Circles 8. Symmetry Systems 9. The Spherical-Coordinate System 10. Breakdown Systems 11. Choosing a Polyhedron 12. Using the Tables 13. Ellipses and Superellipses 14. Truncations 15. An Advanced Problem 16. Space Frames 17. About Angles Part Three Dala 18. Class I Octahedral Coordinates 19. Class II Method 1 Octahedral Coordinates 20. Class I Method 1 Icosahedral Coordinates 21. Class II Method 1 Icosahedral Coordinates 22. Tetrahedral Coordinates 23. Class II Method 3 Coordinates and Chord Factors Appendices APPENDIX I Writing Class II Method 3 Coordinates APPENDIX II Calculator Routines APPENDIX III HP-65 Programs ...
