Re: Tensegrity Column

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Yowie wrote:

Engineer wrote...

Marshall Price wrote:

I heard Buckminster Fuller give a lecture to the general public at
Columbia U on the first Earth Day. Only a couple weeks earlier, I'd
spent several hours thumbing through one of his books at the library.

I'd love to be able to "figure out" how his tensegrity column fits
together, but despite the fact that I spent about an hour studying the
one in the quadrangle of the Institute for Advanced Studies at
Princeton, I still can't figure out how to make one out of straws,
dental floss and plumbers' epoxy.

Any ideas?

This may help:

http://www.kennethsnelson.net/new_structure/structure1.htm
http://www.kennethsnelson.net/new_structure/structure9.htm
http://www.kennethsnelson.net/new_structure/structure12.htm

Use the "Go To" bar at the top to see the other parts. or just
type in the numbers 1 - 22 into the URLs above

Also see:

http://www.georgehart.com/virtual-polyhedra/straw-tensegrity.html
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/08/make_podcast_weekend_projects_3.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensegrity


Why this is in SRQ, I have no idea. Since I had no idea what tensgrity
was,
I clicked. What incredible beauty. Thankyou for sharing this with me.

I am at the point where I would rather see off-topic posts than
Yet Another Flame War Starring The Same Old Trolls...

So, got anything about Quakerism you'd like to discuss?

As for tensgrity, its incredibly beautiful and indeed simple. Whilst ot a
quaified engineer myself, alot of my work is on the 'grey' area between
chemistry and engineering, and I work with lots of actual engineers. As
such, I seem to have developed an apreciation for the well engineered
object. Such towers and structures, which show beauty in their construction,
well, thats makes the engineer in me smile.

I think of God as a really clever engineer, making complex constructions out
of unusual parts that are not only functional but beautiful as well (the DNA
helix being just one example)

Yowie


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