¶ Tensegrity Geodesic Grid: Three-Way Grid
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“That is also exactly what happens in a three-way grid tensegrity geodesic spherical grid. In the balloon we get paths of these positively and negatively paired, kinetic molecules reacting from one another in a random set of directions. If they went into one path only they would make a single circle which would push the balloon outwardly only at its equator making a disc and allowing the poles to collapse. If they made a two-way stack of parallel lesser circles as a cylinder, the cylinder would contract axially into a disc. A two-way grid would make only unstable squares and diamonds which would elongate into a tubular snake. But once we have three or more sets of angularly independent circularly continued push-pull paths, they must inherently triangulate by push-pull stabilization of opposite angles. Triangulation means self-stabilizing; which creates omnidirectional symmetry; which makes an inherent three-way spherical symmetry grid; which is the geodesic structure.”
