ABSTRACT
These applications and many others use spherical techniques that Buckminster Fuller, or one of his associates, developed in the late 1940s and 1950s. They are as useful today, as they were then, because they continue to solve new problems in fields that have nothing to do with domes, such as astronomy, weather prediction, materials science, virology, product design, and PC game development. Even the dimple patterns on golf balls owe a debt to Buckminster Fuller.
