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Platonic Solids Images and Information

Submitted by DanRadin on Thu, 2007-11-29 12:12.

I hope that anyone interested in the Platonic solids will visit my website:

www.PlatonicSolids.info

I am a long-time follower of Fuller. I saw him speak in New York in the early eighties. Some of you may remember the educational product I created. It was a tensegrity model construction kit called FANTASTIX. They used to sell it in the BFI store among other places. I recently finished a computer-animated video about the Platonic solids. It is called Platonic Solid Rock. You can find it on YouTube. I created an informational website to go with the video. It has lots of great downloadable graphics like the spinning shapes in this posting. There are also lots of other educational and fun resources on the site. Check back from time to time for updates. I will soon be publishing a ninety-page book on the Platonic solids with beautiful color graphics. I hope you enjoy it!

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Oscar Tuazon in Oslo

Submitted by Dick Fischbeck on Fri, 2007-05-25 17:26.

Oscar Tuazon - Selected Works

http://www.standardoslo.no/v1/o.tuazon.swo.php

http://www.standardoslo.no/v1/o.tuazon.php

"In an initial phase these sculptural works would take forms of geodesic domes and draw on such typologies as indigenous building techniques, DIY architecture, as well as a more determined dedication to structural clarity, advocated by the engineer R. Buckminster Fuller. More recently the works have taken on the character of full-scale building prototypes, such as the work "1:1" at the center of the show. "

DYnamic - MAXimum - tensION

Submitted by Joshua Arnow on Tue, 2005-12-06 17:51.

DYMAXION

DYnamic - MAXimum - tensION

At the heart of Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion concept is the idea that rational action in a rational world demands the most efficient overall performance per unit of input. His Dymaxion structures, then are those that yield the greatest possible efficiency in terms of available technology.

In this section you will find resources and information about some of Fuller's most compelling applications of this set of criteria including the Dymaxion House, car, bathroom, etc.



Click on the image to view a small movie clip of Buckminster Fuller speaking about the Dymaxion concept

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