Leonardo's dome Da Vinci patterns element

The inspiration for this project came during a visit to the interactive Leonardo da Vinci Museum in Florence, where the connection between art and science in Leonardo's work came alive. To honor this spirit of innovation, I decided to recreate a 3D model of his famous dome construction using modern technology. This 3D-printed element is a tribute to Leonardo da Vinci's ingenious construction, as he outlined in the Codex Atlanticus. In the Codex Atlanticus (pp. 889-890), he sketches the image of a self-supporting dome, structured and held together solely by its weight and the effect of gravity. Leonardo designed this structure without the need for internal support to cover large areas. With the progressive addition of further interwoven parts, the dome can achieve enormous, if not infinite, dimensions. The discovery of the Leonardo dome is credited to Rinus Roelofs, a talented Dutch mathematician and sculptor, who in 1989, while studying the problem of how to divide a sphere into solid