Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of ThinkingSynergetics, according to E. J. Applewhite, was Fuller's name for the geometry he advanced based on the patterns of energy that he saw in nature. For Fuller, geometry was a laboratory science with the touch and feel of physical models--not rules out of a textbook. It gains its validity not from classic abstractions but from the results of individual physical experience. Description by the Buckminster Fuller Institute, courtesy of The Estate of Buckminster Fuller |
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... struts . The struts may then be either hydraulically actuated to elongate them to designed dimen- sions , or may be locally jacked in between the comprehensively prefabricated , spherical - system tensional network . 714.02 The local struts ...
... struts . The struts may then be either hydraulically actuated to elongate them to designed dimen- sions , or may be locally jacked in between the comprehensively prefabricated , spherical - system tensional network . 714.02 The local struts ...
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... strut . The mass attraction pulls inwardly on the lead ends of the precessionally articulating , self - orbiting , great - circle chord vector struts , thus changing their circumferential direction . They are precessionally and suc ...
... strut . The mass attraction pulls inwardly on the lead ends of the precessionally articulating , self - orbiting , great - circle chord vector struts , thus changing their circumferential direction . They are precessionally and suc ...
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... struts , the struts tend to approach relative zero , and the overall shape of the structure approaches a super octahedron . 726.00 Six - Pentagonal Tensegrity Sphere 726.01 The Symmetrical , Six - Great - Circle - Planed , Pentagonally ...
... struts , the struts tend to approach relative zero , and the overall shape of the structure approaches a super octahedron . 726.00 Six - Pentagonal Tensegrity Sphere 726.01 The Symmetrical , Six - Great - Circle - Planed , Pentagonally ...
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