Talk:Zome (architecture)

message: I cleaned this up a little and wrote more details on the mathematics of Zome.  This material would be enhanced with some nice graphics, at the very least illustrating a single Zome connector.  Someone should include more historical details, perhaps in the introductory section; someone might want to add to the section on other uses of Zome.  The distinction between Zometool and Baer's Zome is probably a good place to split the article in two. Davidarichter 01:54, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revision 

message: The article should be split into two articles as soon as it leaves stub status (maybe before)… One article for Zometool, another for Steve Baer's concept of Zome. –Wulf 00:39, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, but I don't know how to do that.  Does anyone else?  RobertAustin 04:23, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: But, on the other hand:  a) there is a historical link between the two (and, after all, they've used the same name for both); and b) the fact that Baer (and various Zome-constructing 'followers') have been able to actually construct durable buildings by using these unusual geometries demonstrates a real-world application for what can be learned using the Zometool. Joel Russ 14:36, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

text: The lead section of the article is pretty confusing as it stands.  The WP:LEAD should give a brief and concise summary of the topic, but this has elements of a disambiguation.  --George100 (talk) 11:38, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Split

message: The recent inclusion of material about the Zome-toy sets (including pricing... and wording that reads as promotional) sounds like advertising.  Was it lifted from an ad or catalogue?  It doesn't read like neutral point of view.  Seems inappropriate.
:That's because it was. Whoever included it copied it right off the Zometool website… I've removed it now. –Wulf 00:51, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zome-toy sets - advertising?? 

message: We should have a diagram of the Zome system. Zome has one somewhat like what I'm thinking of (JPEG, sadly) on their site at http://www.zometool.com/model-of-month/mzb/MZBPartLists/B1.B2.B3.Y1.Y2.Y3.R0.R1.R2..jpg. I'm imagining something like they have, but including all the green struts, and with nodes with the various shapes highlighted alongside their respective struts. Preferably in SVG format. Anybody up to the challenge? –Wulf 04:12, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diagram 

message: This is a beautiful pic, but it could use a little more explanation.  The compound of five cubes is simply the blue figure shown, if I'm not mistaken.  I'm not sure what to call the red or yellow figures that are entertwined with the blue.  RobertAustin 04:22, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  compound of five cubes picture 

message: The entire "A definition of the Zome system" is composed in majority of error messages in bold red text. It shoud be fixed or removed completely.
Thinking that the fault might be with my browser, I have tried reading it with other browsers.  They have all (Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera)failed to do so and they all give the same bold red error messages.  This is an example of the beginning of the many error messages that make up the secton:
Failed to parse (Cannot write to or create math output directory)
--AlainV (talk) 01:34, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unreadable section 

message: Synestructics is a construction set invented by Peter Pearce and described in his wonderful book Structure in Nature is a Strategy for Design.  Synestructics resembles Zometool superficially, but is designed around the symmetry axes of cube rather than the icosahedron, so it cannot make pentagonal structures. http://www.georgehart.com/virtual-polyhedra/synestructics.html
What is the best way to integrate the above information?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.157.209.66 (talk) 18:27, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: '''Zometool and Synestructics compared'''

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message: This article needs to be split into Zome and ZomeTool. Born25121642 (talk) 01:27, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems fine to me; the toy is not necessarily encyclopedic or noteworthy independent of the mathematical system, and the two articles would be about 70% identical content. –jacobolus (t) 02:46, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

text: Okay, thinking about this more, I think there should be a split, but the article entitled Zome should be about the mathematical concept (including discussion of Zometool), and information about general not-quit-domelike buildings should be split into some other page, maybe Zome (architecture) or the like. –jacobolus (t) 01:27, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

text: If nobody has any input about this by the next time I think about it, I'll probably do a split between Zome as a geometric system vs. Zome (architecture) as a building design/construction method. –jacobolus (t) 21:21, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article needs to be split