For my first honors assignment, I chose to create a geodesic dome. For this project, I partnered up with two of my peers, Anjolie and Gary. To start brainstorming ideas for our final project we created a mock geodesic dome using paper. Each of us created a third of the dome using paper and tape. In total we used 60 triangles (forming 12 pentagons) and 120 triangles (forming 20 hexagons). For my portion of the third, I used 4 pentagons and 7 hexagons.
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For our final project we decided to create a 2v geodesic dome using skewers. Our final project will look something like the image to the left.
The geodesic dome in the image is relatively big compared to the one we plan on building. We will create a geodesic dome slightly larger than 2 feet (it will have a diameter of 25.64 inches). My partners and I will individually build all of the pieces. We will spilt up the work into thirds. After doing a little bit of research on how to build a geodesic dome I found a website that gave us all of the measurements to make a perfect geodesic dome. For our geodesic dome we will use two different sized skewers and two different sized triangles. |
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