| SELECTED IDEAS OF BUCKMINSTER FULLER |
| OCTAHEDRA: TRUSSES |
Both regular & stretched octahedra can be used to build all kinds of structures such as floors, roofs, walls, towers, hulls, spheres, etc. |
These components can be flat, curved, vertical, horizontal, single or double layered. |
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The octahedra may be built of
panels, struts, or separated tension & compression elements. |
| Octahedral Truss | R B Fuller | US Patent # 3,354,591 | 1967 |
| Geodesics | Edward Popko |
figures 82-86 |
1968 |
| Tensegrity Truss | Chris J Kitrick | US Patent # 4,207,715 | 1980 |
| National Aeronautics & Space Administration Technical Briefs | NASA Staff |
pp 211 & 230 |
Summer '81 |
| Inventions | R B Fuller |
pp 248-55 & 286-90 |
1983 |
| The Artifacts of R Buckminster Fuller, Volume 3 | James Ward, ed | pp 399-400 & 410-12 | 1985 |
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