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  • Thumbnail for Geodesic dome
    A geodesic dome is a hemispherical thin-shell structure (lattice-shell) based on a geodesic polyhedron. The rigid triangular elements of the dome distribute...
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    In geometry, a geodesic (/ˌdʒiː.əˈdɛsɪk, -oʊ-, -ˈdiːsɪk, -zɪk/) is a curve representing in some sense the shortest path (arc) between two points in a surface...
    27 KB (3,684 words) - 23:40, 3 May 2024
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    be the geodesic domes, hemispherical architectural structures designed by Buckminster Fuller, which geodesic polyhedra are named after. Geodesic grids...
    17 KB (1,141 words) - 04:12, 8 June 2024
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    The geodesic structure is also redundant and so can survive localized damage without catastrophic failure. A fabric covering over the structure completed...
    13 KB (1,494 words) - 07:15, 16 July 2024
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    known geodesic dome; carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres...
    102 KB (11,185 words) - 04:18, 25 July 2024
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    the main temple. Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir is housed in a modern geodesic structure with a traditional gopuram based on Khajuraho style of architecture...
    28 KB (2,227 words) - 18:43, 30 July 2024
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    open air geodesic dome", and is rare among Synergetics, Inc.-designed geodesic domes in that it was never intended to be a covered structure. Originally...
    15 KB (1,504 words) - 10:38, 8 June 2024
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    One of Webb's proposed structures based on bowellism was the Sin Centre for Leicester Square. The concept was a geodesic structure that supports a glass...
    5 KB (552 words) - 10:52, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geodesic grid
    A geodesic grid is a spatial grid based on a geodesic polyhedron or Goldberg polyhedron. The earliest use of the (icosahedral) geodesic grid in geophysical...
    12 KB (1,346 words) - 23:24, 5 January 2024
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    aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis in the 1930s (who sometimes spelt it "geodesic"). Earlier, it was used by Prof. Schütte for the Schütte Lanz Airship SL...
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  • infimum of length (a geodesic) then it is called a geodesic metric space or geodesic space. For instance, the Euclidean plane is a geodesic space, with line...
    6 KB (980 words) - 21:05, 18 November 2023
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    Rather, it means that there is no boundary past which there is nothing. See Geodesic manifold. Itzhak Bars; John Terning (2009). Extra Dimensions in Space and...
    65 KB (6,730 words) - 06:25, 27 July 2024
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    airframe's strength. The fabrication of the curved frames needed for its geodesic structure necessitated the development of new powered machinery that greatly...
    20 KB (2,562 words) - 20:16, 12 May 2024
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    Campus was augmented with the addition of the Dome: a lightweight geodesic structure after Richard Buckminster Fuller, which was developed by T.C. Howard...
    8 KB (943 words) - 05:39, 30 July 2024
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    La Géode (category Geodesic domes)
    long and are fixed on a thin metal frame with the same triangular geodesic structure, consisting of 2,580 steel tube bars. The dome stands on a reinforced...
    5 KB (609 words) - 15:23, 23 July 2024
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    technique to rockets, using tank pressurization for rigidity. Domed city Geodesic dome Inflatable building Collado Baíllo, Isabel. "Walter Bird y las primeras...
    13 KB (1,501 words) - 11:05, 16 July 2024
  • that the causal structure of a Lorentzian manifold is unaffected by a conformal transformation. A null geodesic remains a null geodesic under a conformal...
    22 KB (3,430 words) - 05:00, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hoberman sphere
    A Hoberman sphere is a kinetic structure patented by Chuck Hoberman that resembles a geodesic dome, but is capable of folding down to a fraction of its...
    4 KB (384 words) - 17:05, 9 June 2024
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    Eden Project (category Geodesic domes)
    pentagonal ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) inflated cells supported by geodesic tubular steel domes. The larger of the two biomes simulates a rainforest...
    41 KB (3,519 words) - 16:01, 1 August 2024
  • In mathematics, the geodesic equations are second-order non-linear differential equations, and are commonly presented in the form of Euler–Lagrange equations...
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