OUR BEEHIVE SHELTER: A new method of Beekeeping to save endangered domestic honeybee
AKA: Zen of Beekeeping
by Gregory Russell (c) 1999

a rhomboidal dodecahedron

i don't know how this fits together, but stay tuned, more to come.
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well i think i have it here now ... i went up there for mother's day and brought back some of lote's carvings and some of gregory's notes and what looks like two different manuscripts and some sides of the shelter. i'm trying to picture how it fits together with the rhomboidal dodecahedron. let me know if you have any insight in that regard. i may well scan it and put it in the cloud. max was interested in it too.


So are we going to get a bee hive going around the sustainable Renton offices ... and/or our community farm ? I know i want one on Russell Farm

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Seth Russell
your picture appeared in gregory's mnanuscrip on his behinve shelter ... do you remember how that fit together?
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d'Artagnan Evergreen Barbosa
Only sketchily. I helped him build some of it in Phoenix in circa 1982. Could probably figure things out if I had my hands on it. All I remember was it was basically a (hexigonal?) cube with removable cells.
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Seth Russell
kewl ... if i get stuck i can ask some specific questions ...
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Seth Russell
its getting from a hexigon to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhombic_dodecahedron which the manuscrip starts with
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Seth Russell
which at the moment has me baffeled
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d'Artagnan Evergreen Barbosa
I think the Rhombic dodecahedron was only the inspiration. The actual implementation was more practical. Basically the idea as I remember it was to build a hive using hex based geometry as much as possible instead of traditional square so as to make it more likeable to the bees and utilize cosmic shape energy better.
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Seth Russell
wow ... well that explains a lot s
yeah i guess

But who knows?

yeah i guess

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