¶ Kiss: Locked Kiss
RBF Definitions
“… Finally we reach the condition where the space between the struts is the same dimension as the girth diameter of the struts. At this point we can let them kiss touch. We may then lock them tensionally together in their kiss, but not when we do so we must remember that they were not pushing one another when they ‘kissed’ and we locked them in that equilibrious ‘most comfortable’ position of contact coincidence. Tensegrity spheres are not fastened in shear, even though their locked kiss gives a superficially ‘solid’ continuity appearance which is only subvisibly discontinuous at the atomic level.”
¶ Citations
- SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. \href{https://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/700-tensegrity#section-715.01}{715.01}, 19 Oct’72
