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Record W4389387272 · doi:10.1525/9780520353367-001

What This Book Is

2005· book-chapter· en· W4389387272 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicStructural Analysis and Optimization
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer science

Abstract

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What This Book IsGeodesies is a technique for making shell-like structures that hold themselves up without supporting columns, by exploiting a threeway grid of tensile forces.They are very strong and can be very large: the geodesic bubble erected to house the United States exhibits at Expo '67 in Montreal encloses some 6 million cubic feet; it is approximately three-fourths of a sphere 250 feet in diameter.They are also very light for what they do: the Montreal bubble weighs about 600 tons, Plexiglas skin and all.It has been calculated that a geodesic sphere approximately one-half mile in diameter would float away like a soap bubble if the air inside it were one degree warmer than the air outside.They have been used as homes, as offices, as fair pavilions, as locomotive roundhouses, as gymnasiums, as auditoriums, as banks, as playground structures for children to climb on, as housings for radar installations on the DEW line, and for observatories buried under snow at the South Pole.Yet, considering their apparent potential, in the quarter-century since Buckminster Fuller introduced them they haven't been used very widely.That is partly because they are mathematically derived structures, and the mathematics hasn't been easily available.Parts for the self-supporting frame must be fabricated to close specifications.The fabrication, with today's technology, is no problem; the problem is learning what the specifications should be.If we know them, we can achieve extraordinary savings of material, weight, and effort.If we don't, we have no resource save one of the conventional methods of building, which by geodesic standards means gross overbuilding.My assumption is that if architects, designers, engineers knew how to get past the first step, which is calculating the pertinent details of a geodesic structure's geometry, they would explore geodesic potentials more than they have.This book shows how to

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.165
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0970.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.182
Teacher spread0.174 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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