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This scanned photo is from about 1985. A friend went to EPCOT when it first opened and gave me a poster of Spaceship Earth. I must have studied that thing for months when I saw the repeating pattern and saw how it related to a Dodecahedron which at the time was really the only polyhedron I was familiar with. I drew out the basics of a pentagon and laid out equal spacing for the 8 frequency, then I made an assembly jig and there you have it!In a funny twist of fate, I ended up working in the WDI Imagineering modelshop for nearly 2 years. Go figure!
It's about 11" and all made of very fine basswood strips used in model railroad structures. Unfortunately a few years later, the model got kinda crushed in a move and I never went back & fixed it so all I have is the one photo.
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Well...I very curious of that patern You figured here out,maby You could share with me and especially with my son...he is fascinated by shapes!
I send You this link already,but here You talk about dodecahedron so I will do it here again...here it is more adequate...
dagaizm.deviantart.com/art/DODβ¦
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the Wikipedia article about Spaceship Earth refers to the Pentakis Dodecahedron as its base. I used color markers on the lines all over the poster of the actual geodesic to see how the patterns repeated.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceshiβ¦)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentakisβ¦
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Ok, thank You
we looked it already...
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Thank you, its a really old photo
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I would have cried after the move, but thanks for sharing.
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yah I've had better days while changing a flat tire in the rain
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Been there done that to both. Thanks again for the picture though
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Thanks so much Bear, glad you liked it
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Oh MAN. Bummer that it got crunched. Totally epic model. I'm going to have to start a multipole design (multipole is what we temari-makers call exploded dodecahedral designs) now. You are a total inspiration!
Love the "I'm dark and mysterious" look you're rocking.
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kewel thanks Viking, looking forward to what you come up with
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very nice! sorry to hear it got crushed, though
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Thanks T, yah when I opened the box it looked like an explosion in a toothpic factory
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ouch DX ever think of rebuilding it?
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for years & years yes, I still have the patterns & jigs for it, so, someday....?
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awesome, i look forward to it
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ah dodecahedrons, my fav...that looks cool, too bad it got mashed up, sounds like things whenever i move...oh and about those intense eyebrows....
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David Copperfield leases them out by the month...
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Thanks so much Karmaink
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Wow! That looks like many hours of time and effort!
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Ahh the days before bills & responsibilities when we could hang out at the beach, snow ski, or build geodesic domes at our leisure...
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Is that Gino Vanelli? 
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..first I heard that one! Was always Daniel Day Lewis, a young James Taylor or the dad on 'Family Ties' haha
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he made models before someone got him a guitar...
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