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Radiolaria:
"The micro animal structures, the radiolaria, if you study them, will always show that they are based on either the tetrahedron, the octahedron, or the icosahedron. This picture (R-4-1) was drawn by English scientists almost a century ago as they looked through a microscope at these micro-sea structures.
“Today I have given you some fundamental structural principles and subsequently shown you their use by nature. I didn’t, however, start by studying these structures of nature seeking to understand their logic. The picture of the radiolaria has been available for 100 years, but I didn’t happen to see it until after I had produced the geodesic structures from the mathematical sequence of developments which I reviewed with you earlier. In other words I did not copy nature’s structural patterns. I did not make arbitrary arrangements for superficial reasons. What really interests me therefore in all these recent geodesic tensegrity findings in nature is that they apparently confirm that I have found the coordinate mathematical system employed in nature’s structuring. I began to explore structure and develop it in pure mathematical principle out of which the patterns emerged in pure”
