Dome Radius

The Dome Radius is simply the radius of the sphere in which the geodesic dome you are designing is inscribed. A geodesic dome is an approximation to a sphere. Each vertex in the dome lies on the surface of that sphere. The distance from the center of this sphere to the outside (i.e., to a vertex) is the radius:

The distance from one side of the dome to the other, the diameter, is twice the radius:

D = 2r