¶ Jitterbug
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Now I can’t have six equilateral triangles around each corner because it would add up to 360° and the system would not come back on itself. So I have limitations. I can’t have any less than three triangles to get this inside and outside. There are only three possible structural systems in the Universe: tetrahedron, octahedron, and icosahedron. As I pumped this closest-packed set of 12-around-one, it went down like that-- it went down through the icosahedron phase-- that’s exactly what happened when you took one ball out-- it goes through that, and then it becomes the octahedron. So this vector equilibrium pumps between the three possible cases of all structural systems. So you begin to see how it is the framework of how things happen in nature.
