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Tensegrity: Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic Tensegrities:
"When we introduce the tensegrity structure and its many surprises, we see that we have broken through to a structural knowledge and technique which permits a progressively decreasing relative weight of structure as proportioned to the linear gain. This is to say, the gain of weight in structures, as ratioed to basic linear dimensions, is as one is to one minus1/x weight ratio as the same structure is multiplied in relative size.
In the above progression, as frequencies go up, the sizes of the islands of compression diminish. Islands of compression are the only residual ‘solids’ and their diminishing size diminishes their relative weights at a cube root progression of advantage. Halving the size of a solid spar reduces its *** relative weight by eight. Halving the size of a hollow spar reduces weight by a factor of approximately four."
[This term in 1-I ,pp 171-172]
