... Alan, thanks for your consideration in regards to the 4-fold six Great Circle-like Polygonal Spin Planes. I may have mispoke here i.e. [ "In this scenario...
I always wondered what that long, ropey, slimey thing attached to and dangling from the end of your Pinnochio nose was. Now we all know it is/was an umbilical...
... Thanks Ken. Whereas I think it's fine for this interesting subculture to develop and push its tools, there's going to be a lot of momentum behind more...
I love this Loop Quantum Gravity stuff below. It only furthers my beliefs of a finite universe, as represented by those finite/limited, closed polyhedral...
part 54 figure 24 Make every IM count. Download Messenger and join the i’m Initiative now. It’s free. Part 54 fig 24 on F1 Part 54 fig 24 on F1 Part 54 on...
... I agree that there are tensile and compressive phenomena cooperating in a geodesic dome, but I don't consider it a tensegrity since the members go back and...
I don't think great moment or weight attaches to whether two people agree on the meaning of "tensegrity". More important is each person, if choosing to make a ...
Passing thought: Slightly nondescriptive, "tensegrity", in that it suggests "tension integrity" whereas there're compression elements involved. Similarly, ...
What's obvious is that the first computer system a child uses is going to have a formative impact on developing expectations for the future. The windows on a...
... Smalltalk is alive and well on the OLPC XO. Viewpoints Research is behind the eToys that is shipped and that runs on top of Squeak Smalltalk. Some...
Hi All It is possible to lay out four distinct diamond grids (no shared edges) on a BCC lattice http://www.freewebtown.com/adrian/tmp/bcc_4diam.wrl This can be...
Then there's the all-important influence of the educator.... Not enuff by far to provide a tool; must also provide a teacher of the tool that makes the tool...
The OLPC folks are intending to create a revolution in the way children learn. My take is that the teacher will be largely out of the picture for important...
Hi Alan ... That is a good way to match the numbers. There are four diamond grids. Each diamond grid forms a rhombic dodecahedral grid with only two of the...
... Hi Adrian: I like this stuff. Someday I am going to get back to looking at these patterns and seeing if they turn up in Science. Off the top of my head I...
I'm projecting, Python, OLPC and "other ... Hi Kirby: I am enjoying your take on all this. There is a synergy from the puzzle pieces. Also there is Synergetics...
Hi dharmraj ... That is right. The 4 diamond grids / BCC grid are the yellow edges here http://www.freewebtown.com/adrian/tmp/mite_grid.wrl Considering the...
Snelson I think is fairly clear. Bucky's terminology I've found misleading at times and covered up some interesting points he has to make. Ken's criticisms...
It might take a lot of looseness in the joints before you got to the dishrag stage where it could be crushed flat like a quilted dome made of dishrags. There...
Ref: http://www.trip.net/~bobwb/ts/synergetics/tensegrity/ Tim, I should have said all the members can go back and forth between tension and compression...
This following explains the formulae in topic line. Rybo OO(-SXS+)oo(-SXS+)OO = 'U'niverse ... N = nothingness---><---S = Somethingess ... OO = N/Metaphysical...
DaD = Dumb and Dumber Nothingness = a silly word for The Void = something we can't quite define, at least we don't know if it exists, and it may not even ...
... Hi: Are you using one of your little programs to generate this grid? I like looking at it this way. I can see it as green IVM, two cube grids (red and...
... Made with green Zome struts. ... Yes, that's right; it is the coupler matrix (without cube edges) that is composed only of Zome or Synestructics yellow...
