This is my design for the floor of the Dome. The preferred material is flagstones of cast cement. The underlying geometry is triangulated, with circular curvature based on the edge-length of the relevant triangles, and other related radius lengths. A traditional term for this type of layout is “ad triangulum,” in contrast to “ad quadratum” – the latter meaning a rectangular or foursquare layout; but really I was thinking of Buckminster Fuller and his omni-triangulated designs. It’s as though we’ve laid out the floor on top of his octet truss, a structure based on alternating octahedrons and tetrahedrons and producing a triangulated surface pattern.
The glyphs of the seven traditional planets – those visible to the naked eye – are distributed around the center, with the Sun located at the very center. Around this I’ve placed a compass rose, indicating the cardinal points, with a sunburst amid them. In the Hermetic philosophy, the square created by their points represents the Earth.
Good...very good.
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