¶ Octet Truss
Index Entry
Octet Truss:
"The octet truss can be fashioned from flat ribbons by spot welding or other high-speed cohering processes.
"The octet truss can be fashioned from hubs employing the 12 faces of the rhombic dodecahedron. . .
"The octet truss can be woven together with continuous rods and wires, seized together by male and female turbining hubs.
"The octet truss can be assembled of tubes and rhombic dodecahedron hubs having face-mounted studs to slip into and fasten to tubes.
“The octet truss can be woven continuously from wire-like fencing structures.”
¶ Citations
- DYMAXION WORLD OF RBF, Captions L3 - L11. (1959)
