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- noun architecture, physics
tensional integrity (of a structure)
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This architectural principle-known as tensegrity-has been the focus of artists and architects for many years, but it also exists throughout nature.
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Update: Comment of the day, in the related BB comments thread, by "tensegrity":
Boing Boing 2008
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This specific type of body configuration is called '' tensegrity '', use bone as compression member and ligament as tension cable.
AvaxHome RSS: 2010
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TimToady recently posted about snippiness and 'tensegrity', so I'm not John M. Dlugosz wrote:
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"The word 'tensegrity' is an invention: a contraction of 'tensional integrity.'
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"The word 'tensegrity' is an invention: a contraction of 'tensional integrity.'
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The bridge is a multiple-mast, cable-stay structure based on principles of tensegrity, an architectural and engineering system in which the structural integrity is a synergy between balanced tension and compression components.
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Brisbane, Australia unveiled the world's largest tensegrity bridge, an LED powered haven for the city's pedestrians and cyclists.
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At the axis of the wheel, suspended in a spoked tensegrity structure, is the atomic powered ion/plasma rocket engine and e/m field generator.
Buzz Aldrin Says We Can Get to Mars by 2019 | Universe Today 2010
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Designed for the Swiss Expo in 2002, its lightweight tensegrity structure suspended the platform and metal construction over the Lake Neuchatel, while 31400 high-pressure jets created a perpetual artificial cloud.
Exposing Culture And Architecture From Shanghai Expo 2010 To Yeosu 2012, Milan 2015 The Huffington Post News Team 2010
sionnach commented on the word tensegrity
Tensegrity: "the property of skeleton structures that employ continuous tension members and discontinuous compression members in such a way that each member operates with the maximum efficiency and economy."
Buckminster Fuller explains it all for us:
"The universe must be a comprehensively finite integrity, permitting only a locally-islanded infinitude of observer-considered-and-regenerated differentiating discovery."
Buckminster Fuller on tensegrity
Wait, there's more. Let's hear what lovable fraud-guru Carlos Castaneda has to say:
The observations of those shamans upon practicing the art of dreaming were a mixture of reason and seeing energy directly as it flows in the universe. They realized that at its habitual position, the assemblage point is the spot where converges a given, minuscule portion of the energy filaments that make up the universe, but if the assemblage point changes location, within the luminous egg, a different minuscule portion of energy fields converges on it, giving as a result a new inflow of sensory data: energy fields different from the habitual ones are turned into sensory data, and those different energy fields are interpreted as a different world.
The art of dreaming became for those shamans their most absorbing practice.
Their efforts culminated in the discovery and development of a great number of such movements, which they called magical passes.
They decided, therefore, to rescue the magical passes from their obscure state. They created in this fashion, Tensegrity, a most appropriate name because it is a mixture of two terms: tension and integrity; terms which connote the two driving forces of the magical passes.
Castaneda on tensegrity
October 28, 2008