I have rebuilt part of the site, and the part on the big dome is
http://starship-enterprises.net/Domes/DomeHouse/DomeHouse%20Home.html
which still needs work, but at least there are some pictures and narrative there.
There may be desert willow around, or anything with flexible limbs can be formed into a dome. Actually just about any sticks or boards can be made into a dome, flexible or not. I'll probably have the pipe frame for camping in, but nothing says we can't do a small dog house too. You can papercrete anything that will handle the weight, and thinner coats and well drained pc keep the weight down. Domes are extremely strong.
Domes appear to be complex, but they are really simple due to repeating patterns and many identical pieces. It shouldn't take long to bring you up to speed.
spaceman
Evelyn Vollmer wrote:
Wow! Beautiful, Spaceman. You have a very cool (pun aside) place and I hope that one day soon you will have the time to get the site up and running again.
I am so glad to have Dome 101 at the gathering, I look forward to it. If you don't have the time to get a frame together perhaps we could make a doggie dome with papercrete. Would that be something that would be doable along with that ever Judith as planned? Could a papercrete doggie dome frame be made with..let's say willow branches? I don't know if there is such a tree around Judith's? Here where I live people have made chairs, etc with willow branches as the willow bends very nicely into roundish shapes. Is it possible to papercrete a structure such as this?
As far as your "domeish" speak goes I have absolutely no idea what the heck you are talking about ...... lol....but I thank you for it!
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Spaceman <Spaceman@starship-enterprises.net> wrote:
I do not have a current picture of the whole cluster, but here is a picture of the 16.7' one during construction that was delayed by snow. I was sleeping in it that night, and woke up with several inches of snow on me. Here is a picture of the two larger domes during the same time period, in 3D cross eyed view. The small one was just put in place a couple of weeks ago and will be mostly underground so I have a bit of dirt to move. It won't really be visible, just a bump in the ground with small windows behind the 16.7'.
I had a web page with progress pictures of the 16.7' dome, but a hack attack back in June took it out, and there was no good backup. Though we were using RAID (multiple mirrored drives) and daily backups, the hackers managed to trash the whole system. I have not had a chance to rebuild that page yet.
5/9 is the truncation, the part of a whole sphere - see this page for a more thorough explanation. 3v is domeish for three frequency, meaning that the original Platonic Solid that the dome is based on was modified, with each face of the original icosahedron divided into three parts on each edge, resulting in nine smaller triangles for each one original triangular face. The five Platonic Solids are the tetrahedron, octahedron, cube, icosahedron, and dodecahedron, the only 3D solids that have all edges and all faces identical. Plato was the first to notice that there are only five like that. The tet, octa, and icosa all have triangular faces - 4, 8, and 20 respectively -, the cube has 6 squares, the dodec is 12 pentagons.
Judith said we can take a few minutes for Domes 101 at the gathering, but I'm happy to talk domes anytime. Especially papercrete domes, which is on topic.
spaceman
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