On Saturday 27 October 2007 11:30, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> bol- is relevant both for "geodesic" and for "dome", but
> {bol(sfe)sirji bol(di'u)dru} for "geodesic dome" sounds a bit redundant.
> You can probably shorten it to {bolsirji drudi} or even {bolsirdru}.Whatever we decide to call a geodesic dome, we need to distinguish it from other kinds of domes, which may be constructed with geodesics, but in a different arrangement. A few days ago I watched a video about the construction of what is now the Cricket Arena. Its greku consists of a ring of concrete columns, a tension ring, and many great circle arcs which meet at a compression ring near the top. It is a dome, and it contains of geodesics, but it is not a geodesic dome. Pierre
