Bucky's 'Sixty Strut Tensegrity Sphere'

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Updated • 22 Sept 2016 • Deleted unecessary outer tendons; nonexistent in the actual sculpture Snub-dodecahedron symmetry • Bucky's sculpture currently hangs in the Engineering Centers Building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison “'Sixty Strut Tensegrity Sphere' is considered one of the most spectacular of Buckminster] Fuller’s works in this concept • The structure consists of 20 three-strut 'tripod' ] tensegrity prisms in an icosahedral (having 20 faces) form • Sixty tubes radiate outward from the center of its complex arrangement....' 'Originally created for a Dayton, Ohio bank in 1979, the sculpture was eventually donated to a Dayton art museum and later placed in storage • UW-Madison alumnus Leah Temkin saw it at a Chicago art show and purchased it as a gift to the college....' 'Tensegrity (tension + integrity) describes a structural-relationship principle in which each component of an architectural system stabilizes the others by balancing forces of compression and tension....' See discussion: Identify Structure of this Tensegrity Also, see: Public Art at UW-Madison - Sixty-Strut Tensegrity Sphere Large photo: Bucky.jpg (2448x2448 pixels) #buckminster #fuller #geodesic #nexorade #reciprocal_frame #rotegrity #tensegrity