Build “magic,” gravity-defying structures–with Legos, kite string, and physics
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Re: Build “magic,” gravity-defying structures–with Legos, kite string, and physics
#2https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensegrity
This has been a "thing" on reddit for a couple of weeks now and with lots of people being bored right now the results were quite diverse and interesting:
https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/g2230l/lego_tensegrit...
https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringPorn/comments/g05lld/i_b...
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/g44sz8/my_first_attem...
https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/fcnum5/finally_...
https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/fh5cvo/thought_...
etc.
Re: Build “magic,” gravity-defying structures–with Legos, kite string, and physics
#3I need this on my desk.
Re: Build “magic,” gravity-defying structures–with Legos, kite string, and physics
#4I recall seeing this "tension based" coffee table a while back. I'm glad I was reminded of it, it's super cool.
Re: Build “magic,” gravity-defying structures–with Legos, kite string, and physics
#5There’s a great book I can’t recall the name of that puts forth the notion that we commonly make the mistake of modeling the human body as a compressive structure, when it is just as much or more a tensegretic structure.
We aren’t piled bone on bone like a concrete block house.
Fascinating idea.
Re: Build “magic,” gravity-defying structures–with Legos, kite string, and physics
#6https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensegrity This has been a "thing" on reddit for a couple of weeks now and with lots of people being bored right now the results were quite diverse and interesting: https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/g2230l/lego_tensegrit... https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringPorn/comments/g05lld/i_b... https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/g44sz8/my_first_attem... https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinti…
I have also seen a tensegrity flareup on Twitter. I'd love to know how this got started.
Re: Build “magic,” gravity-defying structures–with Legos, kite string, and physics
#7There’s a great book I can’t recall the name of that puts forth the notion that we commonly make the mistake of modeling the human body as a compressive structure, when it is just as much or more a tensegretic structure. We aren’t piled bone on bone like a concrete block house. Fascinating idea.
I hadn't heard that applied at the level of the body, that's interesting!
Back when i was a cell biologist, i was very excited to read an argument that cells had tensegral structure:
Re: Build “magic,” gravity-defying structures–with Legos, kite string, and physics
#8Here's a (work-in-progress?) monograph about the mathematics of tensegrities! Neat application of representation theory outside the standard examples from chemistry!
Connelly & Guest 2015, "Frameworks, Tensegrities, and Symmetry: Understanding Stable Structures"
Re: Build “magic,” gravity-defying structures–with Legos, kite string, and physics
#9I need this on my desk.
it could be your desk
Re: Build “magic,” gravity-defying structures–with Legos, kite string, and physics
#10Would you enter a building held up by tensegrity? I feel that to build the next generation of super massive structures in the 21st century we will have to use tensegrity concepts.