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Geodesic domes are all over the place at the Burning Man festival, and lots of people like to build domes.
Dome kits are marketed online.    Domes are fashioned with metal, wood or bamboo struts.
People like to go out to the desert and build geodesic domes.
"Roam home to a dome", that's what Bucky Fuller used to say.
Fuller's mathematics made geodesic dome possible for the public at large.
Geodesic domes are dynamically dymaxion.
3-frequency domes use three distinct strut lengths in their construction and assembly.
Domes are often temporary structures, although they can also be permanent structures.
Another hand-built geodesic dome...    Richard Buckminster Fuller is recognized as the
designer who originally worked out the mathematics that made geodesic domes practical
to build and use.