Dave Anderson's Monkey House

These are the papers written during my initial excursion into geodesics, and what I later turned into the basis of TekCAD. They were originaly available on w3.one.net, but went down a few years ago. I'm trying to resurrect all the material back together in one place.

Geodesic domes are elegant structures; I've figured out some of the math and described some construction techniques...
Geodesics	Calculating the Chords of a Geodesic Patch Calculating the Fastening Angles between Geodesic Subfaces A Technique for Building Inexpensive Geodesic Models A Simple Bolted PVC Geodesic Strut Design Planning a Bigger Dome, Part I Planning a Bigger Dome, Part II Planning a Bigger Dome, Part III Tetrahedral Geodesics Octahedral Geodesics Externally Octet-Trussed Geodesic Patches Visualizing the Bulge in Geodesic Projections Geodesic Constructions Constructing Geodesic Patch Surfaces, Part I Constructing Geodesic Patch Surfaces, Part II Constructing Geodesic Patch Surfaces, Part III Calculating Geodesic Radial Vertex Angles Superprojected, Semiprojected, and Subprojected Geodesics Connecting Superprojected and Subprojected Geodesic Patches Blending Functions and Projecting Geodesic Patches Flat-edged Projected Geodesic Patches Full Sphere Geodesic Surfaces Spaceframes Part I: Rectangular Spaceframes Spaceframes Part II: Triangular Spaceframes Geodesic Artifacts
Mathematics is a different way of looking at things. Although to some it may seem rigorous and dry, to others it has beauty and elegance. You can make your own decision.
Mathematics	The Simplex - Minimal Higher Dimensional Structures A Solution That Wasn't - Coincindental Appearances
Java papers are limited right now because most of the stuff worth writing about is still proprietary. But keep watching...
Java	Printing a Rounded Double in Java Cascading JFrames (in the May 1999 issue of Java Developer's Journal) A Quaternion Class for Java
Food is a big deal. You have to eat and drink! And now some of the monkey's favorite cooking secrets can be yours too!
Recipes	Peanut Butter Noodles Chicken Poppers Langdon's No Bake Cookies

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