# The best area to fill sphere surface - dome

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 27, 2016, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-area-to-fill-sphere-surface-dome/775714 "2016-12-27T18:06:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![komolono](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/komolono/32/532_2.png) [@komolono](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/komolono)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-area-to-fill-sphere-surface-dome/775714/1 "2016-12-27T18:06:22Z")

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In my dreams, I’m living under a dome. I have no experience in geo-mathemathics, but a sphhere, not any icosahedron or somebodu’s fyllerine or anyrhong. I have a limimited resourshe - only one piece and a half sphere, please - not acute, I have no money, yet. If you don’t understant - one piece to multiply and you have a sphere and Im not very unpolite. Choronos saves or shaves - wat is it. But one piece, no others and - bang I have (not a fullerang), but half a dome. One piece!

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**Author:** ![Ignotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@Ignotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignotus)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-area-to-fill-sphere-surface-dome/775714/2 "2016-12-27T18:36:43Z")

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Are you asking how to tessellate the sphere into congruent spherical polygons? There are [a number of ways](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_polyhedron#Examples)to accomplish that.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-area-to-fill-sphere-surface-dome/775714/3 "2016-12-27T20:01:42Z")

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I think the OP is asking what near-planar shape can you take and just join a load of them (all identical) together to construct a spherical dome, or reasonable approximation of one.

I’m going to go for curved segments - like the top half of the pieces in this image:  
[http://cdn-1.mrdowling.com/images/601flatten.gif](http://cdn-1.mrdowling.com/images/601flatten.gif)

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-area-to-fill-sphere-surface-dome/775714/4 "2016-12-27T22:10:08Z")

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**Moderating**

**komolono** , your question is not at all clear. I’m going to close this. If you can rephrase and make your question clear, you may open an new thread.

Colibri  
General Questions Moderator