¶ Tensegrity: Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic Tensegrities
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“Geodesic tensegrities are true pneumatic structures in purest designed frequency principle without the disadvantage of the randomness and redundancy accruing to the inherit (sic) designer-ignorances (which have only just happened to be successful), when depending on subvisible chemical structure’ behaviors, through the separation of all the components into two majorly opposed magnitude classes, of all the outward bound things that are too large to pass through all the inward-bound net holes that are in the class that are too small. This is the same kind of redundancy that occurs in reinforced concrete which, if drilled out wherever redundant components exist, would disclose an orderly four-prime magnitude-complex, octa-hedron-tetrahedron truss network disencumbered of more than 50 percent of weight. Tensegrity geodesic spheroids have none of the portal pressurelock problems of ‘solid-oozing’ pneumatic balloons. The pressure is discretely localized and locked in place by the tension net, ergo cannot escape. Tensegrity geodesic spheroids may have several frequencies simultaneously-- a low frequency major web and a high frequency minor local web. If they are of sufficiently high frequency of secondary or minor webbing to exclude atmospheric molecules, they may be partially vacuumized, ergo made air-floatable.”
¶ Citations
- “Tensegrity,” PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, p. 125, Dec. '61
