Geodesic Domes: Their Geometry and How to Use it

entitled “Geodesic Domes: Their geometry and how to use it” by Amila Y’Mech is devoted to a remarkable mission: to make accessible also to nonspecialists the geometrical principles and the informatics tools for geodesic dome design. The book is completed by w i n d o w s e x e c u t a b l e “Formian” software. The reader is immediately absorbed by Y’Mech’s enthusiasm and simple language and is in a short able to manipulate dome geometries, single and double layer ones, and to extract strut lengths to construct them. The range of dome forms that the software is capable to manage is a quite wide one; beyond the simple hemisphere it can handle more complex forms such as elliptic and parabolic ones, or domes that can Geodesic Domes: Their Geometry and How to Use it