¶ Tensegrity: Vertexial Connections: Locked Kiss
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Tensegrity: Vertexial Connections: Locked Kiss:
“As we increase the frequency of triangular module subdivisions of the sphere, and thus increase the numbers of compression struts, the struts get progressively halved in length, while their volumes and weights shrink eightfold. At the same time the arc altitude between the smaller arcs and chords of the sphere decreases, and finally we get to the condition where the compression members get closer and closer to the adjacent compression members which they cross. Finally we get to the point where the space between them is the same dimension as the girth diameter of the struts. We can then let them ‘kiss’ touch. We may then lock them tensionally together in their ‘kiss,’ but when we do so remember that they were not pushing one another when they kissed and we locked them in that position of nonstructural coincidence. They are therefore not fastened in shear even though their ‘locked kiss’ gives a superficially ‘solid’ appearance.”
¶ Citations
- Mexico '63, p. 44
