Calico Dome Calico Dome The Calico Dome was a geodesic dome at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India inspired from designs of Buckminster Fuller. It was a combined showroom and shop for Calico Mills and was inaugurated in 1962. It later collapsed and is being reconstructed by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright created a design for an administrative office for Calico Mills, but it was not constructed as Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation did not give permission. Later on the same site, the Calico Dome was constructed. Gautam Sarabhai and his team designed the Calico Dome, inspired by Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes. The dome
Solving the geodesic equations curve γ("s") in formula_1 and formula_5 are the Christoffel symbols. The Christoffel symbols are functions of the metric and are given by: where the comma indicates a partial derivative with respect to the coordinates: As the manifold has dimension formula_8, the geodesic equations are a system of formula_8 ordinary differential equations for the formula_8 coordinate variables. Thus, allied with initial conditions, the system can, according to the Picard–Lindelöf theorem, be solved. One can also use a Lagrangian approach to the problem: defining and applying the Euler–Lagrange equation. As the laws of physics can be written in any coordinate system, it