01-08-2019, 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by freebeard
Red Devil — Just remember the difference between 'geodetic' and 'geodesic'. The bomber has a diamond lattice, where a proper geodesic has triangular (or 'kagame') lattice.
The result is that any vertex is surrounded by a constraining hexagon, where the geodetic has four rhomuses (rhombi?).
See also Walther Bauersfeld. He built the first geodesic dome for his planetarium. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic_(disambiguation)
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A geodesic is a generalization of the notion of a "straight line" to "curved spaces" where you cannot travel in a straight line.
In that sense, it is related to:
(etc)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodetic
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Geodetic is an adjective meaning pertaining to geodesy, the science of measurement of the earth, as in, e.g., Geodetic datum, satellite geodesy, geodetic network, etc.
The term may also refer to:
Geodetic airframe
Geodetic effect
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As you can imagine I used 'geodetic' as I wanted to stress that the airframe design pertains to geodesy. 
And because Barnes Wallis's wiki page uses it as such. 
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Last edited by RedDevil; 01-08-2019 at 03:05 PM..
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