Supercircles: Expanding Buckminster Fuller’s Foldable Circle Models

Year: 2004 Authors: Chris Fearnley; Jeannie Moberly

Core claim

Supercircles provide foldable modules that overcome Fuller’s 360° limit and enable construction of greater great-circle sets such as the 25-circle VE model.

Topics

great circle polyhedra, spherical geometry, foldable modular construction, symmetry and Eulerian circuits

Domains

spherical trigonometry, graph theory, geodesics, spherical polyhedra, paper folding, modular sculpture, geometric design, Buckminster Fuller

Methods

scored paper folding, sector insertion, symmetry-based calculation, laws of sines and cosines

Media

paper, tyvek, scored circles, folded modules

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