¶ Tensegrity: Depolarized Orientation of Tensegrity-Octahedron Universal Joint (1)
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Tensegrity: Depolarized Orientation of Tensegrity-Octahedron Universal Joint:
“I had been ransacking the tensegrity concepts using the multiple-rimmed, parallel or concentric wire-wheel phases of tensegrity since 1927, in the multi-decked 4-D mast structures and the Dymaxion house. . . Despite the fact that I called it the 4-D house-- for fourth dimensionality-- was a polarized, i.e., single-axis system of three dimensionality, with equatorial and latitudinal compressional atolls, isolated from one another in parallel in the comprehensive triangulated tensional network.” But “I had been unable to integrate” synergetic geometry “and three-dimensional tensegrity… . thus to discover multi-dimensional four, five, and six axes symmetrical tensegrity. I had realized that the two-axis universal joint, long known to man and often employed by mechanics as a flexible membrane-- sandwiched between two diametrically opposed yoke-ended shafts, with yoke planes symmetrically oriented at ninety degrees to one another-- constituted an octahedral tensegrity, but its shafted axes tended to make it appear as a single axis system similar to the hexagonal-wheeled Dymaxion house.”
¶ Citations
- “Tensegrity,” FOzfFOLIld + nkT nkiSS, p.121, Dec '61
