[Domesteading 00302] Re: Fw: books

[rowley]

Sal scribed:

>  I did notice in one photo in Dick's web pages that the vertexes
>  in a metal randome had a decidedly hexagonal-looking arrangement.

Which is sort of another way of observing that arrangements of almost anything into a spherical or spheroidal curve 
tend to be recognizable as hexagonal (mixed with pentagonal).


>  This is course opens the possibility to discuss things like virtual
>  or implied vertexes, composite struts etc.  The hexpent domes,
>  while being composed of flat faces, have implied struts that are
>  just not connected.

As in a tensegrity. The "implied struts" would be the compression members (or at least "implied" compression 
members).


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>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Sal Cerda <sal.cerda at rocketmail.com>
>  Subject: [Domesteading 00301] Re: Fw: books
>  Sent: 2008-03-27 07:21
>  
>  I did notice in one photo in Dick's web pages that the vertexes in a metal randome had a decidedly hexagonal-
looking arrangement.
>  This is course opens the possibility to discuss things like virtual or implied vertexes, composite struts etc.  The 
hexpent domes, while being composed of flat faces, have implied struts that are just not connected.
>  
>  Stephen Miller <triorbtl at sover.net> wrote: Randome units are made like the vertex pieces I designed for my  
>  plydomes 18 years ago. But the plydome itself is completely different  
>  from a randome. The randome is an assemblage of vertexes. The plydome  
>  itself has none but the ones added after the sheets are put together.
>  .
>  On Mar 25, 2008, at 2:43 PM, rowley wrote:
>  
>  >
>  > Sal opined:
>  >
>  >>  a slide rules? Oh.  Ouch. This punishment is making my brain mush.
>  >
>  > Once, up in the Great White North, I was given the task of  
>  > measuring out an acre. Procrastinator that I am, I had only
>  > finished 5 and a half yards when the supervisor came mushing up on  
>  > his dog sled to check on me. He said, "Did you
>  > do your acre? " ...to which I replied, "No, but I did a rod."
>  >
>  >
>  >>  On a more serious note, has anyone constructed a house using the  
>  >> randome?
>  >>  I've seen the models, but have no idea how strong the resultant  
>  >> dome might
>  >>  be.
>  >
>  > Stephen Miller's house(s) might arguably qualify as randomes  
>  > (though he might protest that they are anything but
>  > random).
>  >
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>  >
>  >
>  >>  -------Original Message-------
>  >>  From: Sal Cerda
>  >>  Subject: Re: [Domesteading 00289] Re: Fw: books
>  >>  Sent: 2008-03-25 12:10
>  >>
>  >>>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>>  I've always found slide rules sort of counter-Inuitive, myself.  
>  >>> But that's
>  >>>  just  me. Perhaps in a slippery medium like ice,  a slide rules?
>  >>
>  >>  a slide rules? Oh.  Ouch. This punishment is making my brain mush.
>  >>  :-)
>  >>
>  >>  On a more serious note, has anyone constructed a house using the  
>  >> randome?
>  >>  I've seen the models, but have no idea how strong the resultant  
>  >> dome might
>  >>  be.
>  
>  Stephen Miller
>  triorbtl at sover.net
>  Formactive
>  http://www.sover.net/!triorbtl/