Geodesic Dome

[rboykin]

Does anyone know how to create a geodesic dome shape. I would assume that you start with a sphere primitive but my results aren't very good. In the DT tutorial on mental ray, they have an object that is kind of like a shiny soccer ball. I'm sure I could use the same technique to create a geodesic dome with triangles instead of pentagons...but what is that technique?

[laxman]

You could select the object and try to use the triangulate feature. Of you could look on highend3d.com for a script that makes geometric shapes. I forgot what its called but I use to have it. It works well.