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Four Chances
1979; Ed. 4 aluminum & stainless steel 35.5 x 42 x 32 inches 88 x 110 x 80 cm
Weaving <-> Tensegrity
Weaving and tensegrity share the same grounding principle of alternating helical directions; of left to right; of bypasses clockwise and counterclockwise. In these figures, the column on the left shows the primary weave cells. To their right are the equivalent basic tensegrity modules. By transposing each weave filament to become a strut (stick, tube or […]
Tetrahedral Spaceframe Weave
Five weave-tetrahedra, showing the basic three-dimensional tetrahedral weave pattern composed of weave-tetrahedra and weave-truncated-tetrahedra alternating in space with one another. This spatial weave pattern has four different directions of triangle/hexagon flat weave planes. These repeated planes align themselves with the face planes of a normal tetrahedron. The alternant, larger forms, the weave-truncated-tetrahedra, occupy the cavities […]