¶ Tensegrity (3)
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Tensegrity:
" I have given you some of these measurements where we looked at tetrahedra and octahedraand so forth as if the edges were coming discretely together at one point in the Platonic way of looking at a solid. We have also realized that if we looked at any of these micrscopically that the ends are pretty well twisted and we discovered that we could make all the same figures with the tensegrities and we realize that the gap in thetensegrities can be visual. As I began to show by further experiment we get to the point where they go below resolution by the ever remembering human eye which can only go down to resolving distances to about one-hudredth of an inch and below that we don’t see the distances between them. We don’t see the distances between the points any more. We see a set of black points on a white field, and when they get below a certain point they run together. That is what the printers learned with the Benday screen-- you can develop what seemed to be continuous form, continuous surface, and so the colors, grays and various colors we speak of as color, but we can’t see the intervals between the waves or the occurrence of frequency of their components. I saw then that the tensegrity structures did go down into nonvisible gaps. . ."
