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Old 04-12-2025, 05:25 PM   #16 (permalink)
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I spy with my little Fly Eye

Maybe I'm hallucinating, but I can see three things come together
  1. Buckminster Fuller's Flys Eye Dome patent
  2. the Geoship ceramic dome initiative
  3. Artificial Intelligence's penchant for circular windows and compound curved interior walls.

Now, Geoship's current design has three layers, an inner shell, trussed struts, and an outer shell. Fuller's Fly Eye uses compound curve panels. Combine the two and you have two layers, the Fly Eye interior, [an insulative cavity] and flat/curved outer panels.

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Fly's Eye Dome
The Fly's Eye Dome was a structure designed in 1965 by R. Buckminster Fuller. Inspired by the eye of a fly, Fuller designed the dome as his idea of the affordable, portable home of the future, with windows and openings in the dome to hold solar panels and systems for water collection, thus allowing the dome to be self sufficient. Before his death in 1983, he hand-built three prototypes of the design:
A 3.8-meter prototype is currently owned by Norman Foster.…
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Then:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/78/45...a4e12688a4.jpg

Now:

https://www.stylourbano.com.br/wp-co.../01/hrhrer.jpg
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