| SELECTED IDEAS OF BUCKMINSTER FULLER |
| TETRAHEDRA: TENSEGRITY |
| TRUSSES |
Fuller devised ways of building structures out of just tetrahedra. |
The tetrahedra could be both regular and stretched. |
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The tension and compression
components
could be separated out in order to minimize the weight and cost. |
| Tetrahedra
combined into trusses can be used to build
floors, walls, towers, boats, and even geodesic domes. |
| Geodesics | Edward Popko | figures 88 & 90 | 1968 |
| The Dymaxion World of R Buckminster Fuller | R Buckminster Fuller & Robert Marks | figs 264-7 (pp 165-66) | 1973 |
| Synergetics | R Buckminster Fuller | secs 730.00 & 740.00 | 1975 |
| Inventions | " | pages 291-92 | 1983 |
| Cosmography | " | pages 184-87 | 1992 |
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