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List for the Discussion of Buckminster Fuller
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Double six
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It seems that 'Double six' by Kenneth Snelson refers to a truncated cube. Bob, do you constructed such tensegrity model?
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cardboard furniture
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Cardboard furnitures are quite popular in France and Germany. I am a cardboard furniture designer from germany, working with my own company for three years now. Feel free to contact me for designing help on furnitures and techniques. Greetings Benjamin [link] b...@papp-art.eu
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is this bicycle a tensegrity?
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Looks like the simplest sort of tensegrity, a pair of crossed struts surrounded by a diamond of four tendons. Bob ... > > > [link] > > > This may be similar, but done with a metal frame, > [link]... more »
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Nice collection of tensegrity images, videos
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There was an article a few years ago outlining the details of this technique for prototyping tensegrity: Olga Popovic and Konstantinos Sakantamis, "A Novel Approach to Physical Modeling -- Formfinding of Tensegrity Systems", Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, Vol. 44 (2003), pp. 15-24.... more »
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Snub-Antiprism Tensgrities
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The real expert on prisms is Marcelo Pars at [link] . He probably has some things that might be thought of as based on antiprisms. I have mentioned the page I have devoted to his work on my own site: [link] . Recently he gave me the coordinates of his masterwork, "de lege stoel,"... more »
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Snelson exhibition
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Kenneth Snelson is having an exhibition in New York City at the Marlborough Chelsea Gallery, his main artistic agents. The reception is February 19 6-8 p.m. and the exhibition runs through March 21. This announcement also reports a new monograph about Kenneth Snelson by Eleanor Heartney entitled "Kenneth Snelson: Forces Made Visible" to be... more »
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another erratum in Kenner's Geodesic Math
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Ref: [link] Reader Margaret Glynn pointed this one out. On p. 55, the text says counterclockwise from north, but Diagram 8.2 shows clockwise from north. I think the diagram is wrong. I've added this to my list referenced above. Bob
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