When my friend Jan Neumann was the project manager at Spokane Regional Sports Commission, she asked me to make a giant soccer ball parade float ( which she dreamed up) for the Spokane Valley Junior Soccer Assoc. entry in the Jr. Lilac Parade here in Spokane. So here's how to do it!
As no doubt you know (I did not), the common soccer ball form is Buckminster Fuller's creation, and is called a truncated icosahedron, according to Keith Critchlow, as it has 32 faces: 12 pentagon and 20 hexagon. I thought it was a dodecahedron, but that has 12 faces (duh-dork-a!!), and those, all pentagons. You can break it down into triangles like the Epcot thing, but we're making a soccer ball.
First I figured the size of the finished project from the specs at the ClubCar site.
