The love of triangles

Enter through the pentagon door, lie back on the buddabag or in the hammock, and let the patterns reveal themselves.

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It’s all made of triangles.

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It’s made of hexagons and pentagons.

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It has rotational symmetry of order five.

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There are continuous lines interrupted only by the pentagons.

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Every strut is holding up every other strut.

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Mr Bauersfeld*, I salute you.

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* The geodesic dome was invented by planetarium builder Walther Bauersfeld twenty years before Buckminster Fuller** got involved, but he didn’t have a cool name for it.

** Interesting guy, Bucky. Geodesic domes, polyphasic sleep, philosophy through pedantry and synergy without irony.