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There are over 1 billion people in the world without adequate shelter. RanDome is a patented method which greatly reduces the complexity of constructing domes. It is our hope that the RanDome method can be adopted for use in temporary or permanent structures for people in need.

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my friend at tensegrity wiki

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Thanks go to http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com/ for a wicked good job putting together and maintaining a scientific tensegrity wiki blog. It has pages and links to all things tensegrity. It's up to date, too.

http://tensegrity.wikispaces.com

Here is one link tensegrity.wiki has added today to the site which takes you to several of Adrian Rossiter's latest and  revolutionary jitterbug movies, inspired by Joe Clinton's jitterbugging tetrahedron. Thanks, Adrian. Thanks, Joe.

Dick

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Joe Clinton's geodesic RanDome explanation

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Joe Clinton wrote this paper right after the SNEC Tivoli workshop in 2003. Ron Resch and Joe held a lively debate on the quesotion of, "Is RanDome Geodesic?", in the middle of my first RanDome presentation! Thanks to Victor Acevedo of Acevedo Media for recording it. 

http://www.synergeticists.org/snec.meeting.2003.01.html

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Clinton’s Equal Central Angle Conjecture

How to Build a Randome Geodesic Emergency Shelter

Dick's RanDome is mentioned in this paper:
...it has come to my attention that Dick Fischbeck has been working on similar problem. He randomly arranges cones of consistent diameter on the surface of a sphere based on the spherical excess angle of a polyhedron. He has also proposed a variation where the central angles of the cones may consistently generate random tetrahedral pyramids that will tessellate the sphere. Perhaps a careful study of his RanDomes will provide a solution to the Goldberg polyhedra equal central angle problem.

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Geodesic Geometry

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Here is an explanation of the geometry underlying geodesic domes from our good friend Joe Clinton.

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Geodesic Definitions

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Here is a set of slides from our friend Joe Clinton which takes you through some geometric definitions which are helpful in understanding geodesic domes.

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