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Tensegrities and Global Rigidity

In: Shaping Space

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  • Robert Connelly

    (Cornell University)

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In 1947 a young artist named Kenneth Snelson invented an intriguing structure: a few sticks suspended rigidly in mid air without touching each other. It seemed like a magic trick. He showed this to the entrepreneur, builder, visionary, and self-styled mathematician, R. Buckminster Fuller, who called it a tensegrity because of its “tensional integrity.” Fuller talked about tensegrities and wrote about them extensively. Snelson went on to build a great variety of fascinating tensegrity sculptures all over the world, including the 60-foot work of art at the Hirschhorn Museum in Washington, DC. shown in Figure.

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  • Robert Connelly, 2013. "Tensegrities and Global Rigidity," Springer Books, in: Marjorie Senechal (ed.), Shaping Space, edition 127, chapter 21, pages 267-278, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-0-387-92714-5_21
    DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-92714-5_21
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