Geodome -- Geodesic design software

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Geodome is a small set of programs to help you design a geodesic dome.

  • Project Page
  • Download
  • Readme File
  • Read the documentation
  • A practical example
  • CVS repository
  • View or submit a patch
  • View or submit a bug report.
  • Pictures:

    Dome Sweet 36 -- Photos of a 36' dome designed with Geodome. new
    Oasis Dome -- Dome designed with Geodome and taken to Burning Man. new

    Useful links:

    Tara's Desert Domes -- Includes wonderful Dome Calculator.
    How to Cover A Geodesic Dome
    Tamara Munzer's dome design page
    Pacific Domes -- maker of the 60' dome seen at Burning Man.
    Buckminster Fuller Institute

    The .rpm package was built under Redhat 7 and has been tested on Redhat 7 and 9.

    A picture is worth a thousand words*, so here are a few screenshots.

    dome1.gif
    Starting screen; an icosahedron is ready to be turned into a dome.
    dome2.gif
    Second step, icosahedron subdivided.
    dome3.gif
    Vertices renormalized into a sphere.
    dome4.gif

    Bottom row removed, next row leveled, one vertex raised to form entryway.
    dome5.gif

    Rotated, entryway stretched out, door cut into dome.
    layout.gif

    Automatically generated assembly diagram
    (Download pdf file)
    cover.gif
    Cover design
    (Download pdf file)

    struts.txt
    threedstudio1.gif
    Dome converted to 3D Studio format.
    (Download the .3ds file)
    threedstudio2.gif
    Interior view of the dome.

    bend.jpg
    Close-up of bent strut end.

    3D Studio model imported to Sketchup.

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    (*Unfortunately, it takes up the bandwidth of ten thousand words.)