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Hello Taffgoch David White,
You are absolutely the best at what you do!
I sense there are two definitions of ‘frequency’ being used in discussion.
Background:
The platonic solid icosahedron is a 20 sided polygon with each vertex or hub on the surface of a sphere. Each face is an equilateral triangle, referred to as a parent triangle. In geodesics this is sometimes (maybe incorrectly) identified as a one-frequency 1v sphere, there is one frame member connecting any two pentagons center to center, and all members are the same length. There are three rows of triangles in this sphere, using a formula frequency times three as the denominator of the spherical fraction, a complete one frequency sphere is a 3/3rd sphere. If one row of triangles is removed so the sphere sits flat it becomes a dome, a 2/3 sphere high profile dome. All frame members or struts are the same length, and if this length is 8’, a one frequency 8’ strut will build an 11’ diameter dome.
If the one strut connecting two pentagons is divided into two struts, it becomes a 2 frequency 2v dome. Dividing the edge of the parent triangle in two requires an additional strut length to raise the new vertex to the surface of the sphere. Two struts separating pentagon centers and a maximum strut length of 8’ will build a 26’ diameter sphere with 2 strut lengths. 2v x 3 = 6; a full sphere is a 6/6 profile. A half sphere is a 3/6 dome and can build a 26’ diameter dome.
The first three frequency domes were widely publicized in the 1960’s in Mother Earth News, Popular Science and other publications and made with Fuller’s 3 strut 3v design, as is Bucky’s personal dome in Carbondale, IL. This sphere division doesn’t have a horizontal truncation line, so the 3 strut 3v dome requires 15 triangles removed around the base. Fuller took the 60 remaining triangles in a low profile dome as a fraction of the number of triangles in the whole sphere 180 and identified this using the fraction denominator 8, low profile 3/8 high profile 5/8; 3 strut 3 frequency dome. This is the Class One Method One geodesic used by Monterey, Cathedralite, Timberline, Pease and early dome manufacturing pioneers. The Class One Method One 4v dome has 5 struts and sits flat at the half sphere only.
David Kruschke added a 4th strut to the 3v dome so the dome sits flat without removing any triangles, and has 9 complete rows of triangles. 3v x 3 = 9. These domes are identified as 4/9 low profile or 5/9 high profile 3v 4 strut domes, and are Class One Method Two geodesic. Both Fullers 3 strut and Kruschke’s 4 strut divisions are three frequency domes. The Class One Method Two 4v dome uses 6 strut lengths and sits flat at 5/12, 6/12 and 7/12 truncation. Both Bucky’s 5 strut and Kruschle’s 6 strut are 4 frequency domes.
Question:
When you illustrated the Orange Dome, (modified version attached) you identified it as a 6 frequency dome, when I understand it to be (the dual of) a 9 frequency dome.
Are you using the number of unique strut lengths to identify this as a 6 frequency dome, and not identifying frequency as the parent triangle edge divisions?
Blair
Blair F. Wolfram
Sheeref,That is, indeed, a 6-frequency dome -- Specifically, the DUAL of a 6v{3,3} icosahedral triangle tessellation.The blue lines depict the triangular edges of a 6v{3,3} icosahedron tessellation.
This image is a video frame grab of the "Hawaiin" dome, built by the same guy.
He has posted a YouTube video of that dome, as well.For more info, wikipedia has coverage on icosahedral polyhedron triangle-tessellations and their duals.Also:-Taff(aka, David Price)
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Euler says: v+f=e+2 By knowing v, the number of vertexes(your cells), we know the ratio of faces and edges. For omnitriangulated polyhedra, there are 3 edges per 2 faces per each (vertex minus 2). 10f^2+2=n, therefore, f=root[(n-2)/10] Each cell can have the same alpha, angular deficit. 720/n=alpha
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