Geodesic dome with strut length classes
In your harnessBlender toolMIT
Generate a geodesic dome of any frequency from a vertex-up icosahedron, as hexagonal struts with hubs or as a closed panel shell, and list the distinct strut lengths with counts and chord factors. Use it for domes, greenhouses, sci-fi habitats and build planning.
What it takes and gives
- Operator
- baltor.geodesic_dome
- Parameters
- frequency, radius, mode, strut_radius, hub_radius, thickness
- Result
- One mesh object named Geodesic Dome standing on z = 0.
- Blender
- 4.2 or later
- Axes
- Blender Z up, -Y forward
- Units
- metres
Limits. Class I subdivision with the vertex-up orientation only; other classes, orientations and truncations (such as 5/8 domes) are not available. Odd frequencies end in a stepped rim. Struts are straight hexagonal prisms that overlap the hubs; connector design, panel joints and loads are not modelled. Verified in Blender 5.2.1; written for the 4.2 API.
Details
- Kind
- Blender tool
- Engine
- Blender 4.2 or later
- Files
- 11 files, 115.8 KB
- Licence
- MIT
- Declared effects
- runs commands
- Checked with
- Blender 5.2.1, background (Cycles CPU for previews)
- Checks
- addon install and enable, operator runs with defaults, blender data matches core, addon disable unregisters, script mode runs, clean reopen addon file, clean reopen script file, gltf separate export, engine output clean
- Techniques
- Class I geodesic subdivision of icosahedron faces into a triangular grid, Projection of grid points onto the sphere, Chord factors of geodesic struts, Hemisphere cut along the equator of a vertex-up icosahedron
- Tags
- blender, procedural, geodesic, dome, architecture, icosahedron, mesh generator
- Identity
library.supply.creative_originals.fde202423251b426d1cfa713.3a1c8bb55be83460- Version
3a1c8bb55be83460763312c2a39bb82670d38007ca77960f3b8fcfc86d804543
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