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This began with photographs of various models I built during my studies of Synergetics and Synergetics 2 back in the early 80's. I found model building fairly essential to understanding what Fuller was talking about, and I was not infrequently startled by the learning experiences the models provided. I also extended his work in various ways, and some of those experiments are documented here as well.

My studies of Fuller's work gradually began to focus on tensegrity and the mathematics required to design and analyze such structures. Thus tensegrity predominates in the more recent projects documented here. In addition to this episodic/chronological documentation of my research, I've gathered the results of my research into A Practical Guide to Tensegrity Design.

Some other tensegrity projects are documented in the Tensegrity Press Releases and Photos section of my website and in my prospectus, A Tensegrity Technology. I post notifications of major additions and changes to the material here to the Geodesic listserv and the bit.listserv.geodesic newsgroup.

For many of the tensegrity structures, I've provided datasheets which are an attempt to give other people the information they need to assemble the structures. Some of these models can be more closely examined at Dynamic Tensegrity Views.

The Gallery

Toothpick Models		Sphere Models		Double Tetrahelix		Tetrahelix and the Double Tetrahelix
Tetrahelices		Two-Frequency Vector Equilibrium		Geodesic Math Tensegrities		Tensegrity Rhombic Dodecahedron
Tensegrity Octahedron		Tensegrity Mast		Octahelix		Tensegrity Tower
Tensegrity Vector Equilibrium		Six-Strutted Tensegrities		Punchcard Tetrahedra		The Mite
Tetrahelix Based on A Quanta Module		Tensegrity Tetrahedron		Tensegrity Tetrahedron with Aligned Struts		Tetrahedral Geodesics
Thirteen Great Circles		Laminar 2ν Tensegrity Octahedron		Laminar 2ν Tensegrity Octahedron (variation)		Cubic 'Fly's Eye' Laminar Tensegrity
Double-Layer Tensegrity Dome		Sisal-Twine Tensegrity Domes		Bicycle-Spoke Tensegrity Icosahedron		Minimum of Eight Spokes
Six-fold Equi-tendoned Prism		Skew Three-Prism		Four-fold Reduced-Symmetry Prism		Rehabilitated Tensegrity Bean Teepee
Seven-fold Equi-tendoned Prism		Four-fold Tensegrity Obelisk		Skew Four-Prism		Eight-stage Tensegrity Arch
Ten-stage Tensegrity Torus		Tensegrity Prism as Joint		Tensegrity Tulip		Triangularly Girdled Six-fold Prism
Concentric Five-fold Prisms		Two-fold Prism Girdled by Four-fold Prism		Concentric Five-fold Prisms Revisited		Modified Orthogonal Girdled Six-fold Prism
Infinite-Stage X-Module Column		Eight-Stage X-Module Torus		Two-Stage X-Module Column		Eleven-Stage X-Module Arch
Prism Dome		Hub for X-Module Columns		X-Module Double Helix		Four-stage X-Module Bean Teepee
Bridge with T-Prism Joints		Philip Stewart		X-Module Torus Revisited		Emmerich's Prism
Snelson's Planar Pieces		Merger of Three Six-Fold Tensegrity Prisms		Tensegrity Tetrahedron		Skew Eight-Prism
Two Wheels Based on Gómez Jáuregui Module		Structure Based on Laminated Skew Prisms		Jan Marcus' Aspension Tower		Perspective Prism
Dodecahedron with X-Column Edges		Split-Level Prism		Marcelo Pars' “drie waaiers” (three fans)

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