Geodesic domes have been with us for over fifty years but are still hardly common. Partly or fully spherical, they consist of a shell of great circles which rest upon the top of a sphere.
The first dome that could be called 'geodesic' was designed after World War I by Walther Bauersfeld, chief engineer of the Carl Zeiss optical company, for a planetarium to house his planetarium projector. Here are some of the more famous on the planet.
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I built my own geodesic dome as a greenhouse. It's less than 2m radius, but it was still a big project. The hardest parts were figuring out how to make a door and skinning the structure.
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