¶ Tepee-Tripod
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Tepee-Tripod:
“Best picture of what happens locally is the following: The three sides of a tepee-tripod, composed first of three vertical triangles rising from a fourth ground triangle and subsequently rocking toward one another until their respective apexes and edges are congruent and the three triangles plus the one on the ground constitute am minimum system, for it has minimum ‘withinness.’ Any one edge of our tepee, acting alone, as a pole with an universal joint base, would fall over into a horizontal position, two edges of the tepee acting alone form a triangle with the ground and act as a hinge with no way to oppose rotation toward horizontal position, except when prevented from falling by interference with a third edge pole, falling toward and into congruence with the two other poles’ common vertex.”
