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Rubber Tires:
“. . . . It is quite possible to make an automobile tire and mount it in such a way that it looks triangular. That is, it gets to a very small radius on its corners. I can simply take the same rubber tire and stretch it onto a triangular frame and also have the samee little roller bearings so it can involute and evolute. . . The triangular tires swell pump from being the vector equilibrium into being the octahedron, the way we saw it before, in and out again. If I were then to immobilize one part of it, if I were just holding it with one finger like this, doing this means that I won’t let this one involute and evolute-- but the rest of the system, due to the rotation, is contracting to become an octahedron so it makes all the others reciprocate-- involuting and evolving so that I am able to immobilize one axis and the rest of the system can work comfortably.”
