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Tensegrity Sphere: Six Pentagonals:
"A basic tensegrity sphere can be constituted of six equatorial plane pentagons, each of which consists of five independent and nonintertouching compression struts, totaling 30 separate nonintertouching compression struts in all. This six-pentagon equatored tensegrity sphere inter@cs in a self-balanced system resulting in six polar axes each perpendicular to one of its six equatorial pentagonal planes. It also results in 20 triangular interweavings, which structuring stabilizes the system.
“Instead of having cables connecting the ends of the struts to the ends of the next adjacent struts in the six-axes-of-symmetry tensegrity structure, 60 short cables lead from the ends of each prestressed strut either to the midpoint of the next adjacent strut or to the midpoint of tension lines running from one end to the other of each compression strut. Each of the two ends of the 30 spherical chord compression struts emerges as an energy action, out over the center of action-and-reaction effort vectors of the next adjacent strut, at which midpoint the impimgimg strut’s effort is angularly precessed to its adjacent struts. Thus each strut precessionally transfers its effort and relayed interloadings to the next two”
