Geodome is a small set of programs to help you design a geodesic dome.
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.
 Starting screen; an icosahedron is ready to be turned into a dome. |
 Second step, icosahedron subdivided. |
 Vertices renormalized into a sphere. |
 Bottom row removed, next row leveled, one vertex raised to form entryway. |
 Rotated, entryway stretched out, door cut into dome. |
 Automatically generated assembly diagram (Download pdf file) |
 Cover design (Download pdf file) |
 struts.txt |
 Dome converted to 3D Studio format. (Download the .3ds file) |
 Interior view of the dome. |
 bend.jpg Close-up of bent strut end. |
 3D Studio model imported to Sketchup. |
(*Unfortunately, it takes up the bandwidth of ten thousand words.)