¶ Geodesic
Index Entry
Geodesic:
"When we begin to talk about the interconnection between the individual atoms that make our sphere, we find that there are arcs and there are chords. And the shortest distance is the chord. So it’s the chords that come together instead of the arcs. . .
“What you call a sphere is all the most important shortest systems between all the points, which turn out to be all triangulated. You can divide all the other polygons into triangles and that’s as far as you go. You can’t have something less than the triangle. So we get all the most economical relationships between all those points and you simply have a spheroidal array of triangulated interrelationships. Simply what we call a geodesic, a dome. You can see how you arrive at this by something very simple. So the simplest sphere which is concave and convex is the m tetrahedron. It seems to be a very angular sphere.”
¶ Citations
- Univ. of Alaska Address, p.30, 20 Apr '72
