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hexagonal dome shape

How would I create the model of

The Pacific Theatre's Cinerama Dome

The Cinerama Dome is the only concrete geodesic dome in the world. The theatre is made up of 316 individual hexagonal and pentagonal shapes in 16 different sizes.

Thanks in advance.

batFINGER
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  • The linked answer does not itself respond to the question in the link here: https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/52453/how-can-i-build-a-model-out-of-hexagons-honeycomb-effect. So how can this one be a duplicate? If a perfect tesselation is not possible, this real dome exists. So may be a way to approximate it. – lemon Aug 18 '19 at 05:43
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    It is likely that the hexagons are not regularly sized, they may get smaller towards the top. There may well be a pentagon at the top as well. If we had the building name, it might be possible to look up details on the tesselation which would help. – Sazerac Aug 18 '19 at 23:56
  • Thank you for the response, the building is called the Pacific Cinerama Dome. – Reece Allen Aug 19 '19 at 14:41
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    Reece, Does the duplicate answer answer your question?, or is it different as suggested, and if so how? – batFINGER Aug 21 '19 at 12:44
  • The IcoSphere primitive is basically the same thing, just select all the center points and scale them out from where the object was generated. That's it. – hatinacat2000 Aug 21 '19 at 13:29
  • https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/meshes/primitives.html#icosphere – hatinacat2000 Aug 21 '19 at 13:42
  • The duplicate answers my question as it achieves a very similar result. Thank you all for your help! – Reece Allen Aug 21 '19 at 15:07

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