¶ Tensegrity
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Tensegrity: Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic Tensegrities:
"Local stiffeners of skin suitable to preferred activities, at any structural focus, can be had by increasing the inward-outward angular strut depths and the local surface frequency patternings as well as by multi-layerings of surface truss frequency-- thus thickening the truss depth without weight penalties. Here we have nature’s own trick of local stiffening as accomplished by the higher frequency ‘closest packing’ pattern of isotropically moduled, local cartilages and even higher frequency local bone structuring, as ratioed to the frequency of tissue cells of animal flesh.
“If we employ hydraulic pressure within the local islands of compression for dimensional stability, and gas molecules between the liquid molecules for local compressibility, ergo, flexibility, we will find that our geodesic tensegrity structures will, in every way, have taken advantage of the same structural strategy principles employed by nature in all her sizes of biological formulations.”
TENSEGRITY - SECS. 655.25 (Gray) +26
¶ Citations
- “Tensegrity,” PORTFOLIO+ART NEWS, p. 125, Dec. '61
