¶ Model of Toothpicks & Semi-dried Peas (1)
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So then I went on to say that, if all the energy conditions were everywhere the same, then all the vectors would be the same length and all of them would interact at the same angle. I then explored experimentally to discover whether this “isotropic vector marix,” as so employed in matrix calculus, played with empty sets of symbols on flat sheets of paper, could be realized in actual modeling. Employing equilength toothpicks and semi-dried peas, as I had been encouraged to to in kindergarten at the age of four (before receiving powerful eyeglasses and when I was unfamiliar with right-angled structuring of buildings as were the children with normal vision), I fumbled tactilely with the toothpicks and peas until I could feel a stable structure, and thus assembled an omnitriangulated complex and so surprised the teachers that their exclamations made me remember the event in detail. I thus rediscovered the octet truss whose vertexes, or convergent foci, were all sixty-degree-angle interconnections, ergo omniequilateral, omniequiangled, and omniintertriangulated; ergo , omniinterstructured. Being omnidirectionally equally interspaced from one another, this omniintertriangulation produced the isotropic matrix of foci for omni-closest-packed
