How Do You Make A Geodesic Dome With Toothpicks?
The geodesic dome is a geometric curiosity that anyone can make in their own home. Popular as tents at the Burning Man event, touted by Buckminster Fuller as the housing design of the future, geodesic domes are interesting just as curious conversation pieces. You don’t need to build a 30-foot diameter dome to appreciate the mathematical and architectural beauty of the geodesic dome. You can build one in your own home for just pennies. Lay out the outer decagon. Create a regular decagon as the outer bottom base of your geodesic dome. A regular decagon is a 10-sided figure whose sides are all the same length. Think of a stop sign with ten sides instead of eight. Connect your toothpicks together with clay. Create a layer of regular triangles. Moving upward from the outer decagon, create a series of regular triangles. The top point of your triangles should be in the middle of the side of the decagon that they come from. There should be a total of 10 triangles when you are done. Connect the
