¶ Icosahedron: Subtriangulation (1)
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Icosahedron: Subtriangulation:
"Of the three fundamental structures, the tetrahedron contains the most surface and the most structural quanta per volume; it is therefore the strongest structure per unit of volume. On the other hand, the icosahedron provides the most volume with the least surface and least structural quanta per units of volume and, though least strong, it is structurally stable and gives therefore the most efficient volume per units of invested structural quanta,…
“That is the reason for the employment of the triangulated icosahedron as the most efficient fundamental volume-controlling device of nature. This is the way I developed the multifrequency-modulated icosahedron and geodesic structuring. This is probably the same reason that nature used the multifrequency-modulated icosahedron for the protein shells of the viruses to house most efficiently and safely all the DNA-RNA genetic code design control of all the biological species development. I decided also to obtain high local strength on the icosahedron by subtriangulating its 20 basic Icosa LCD spherical triangles with locally superimposed tetrahedra; i.e., an octahedron-tetrahedron truss, which would take highly concentrated local loads or impacts with minimum effort while the surrounding rings of triangles would swiftly distribute and diminishingly”
