totally epic / michelle chang
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Winter 2008
Buckminster Fuller exhibit : jul - oct 08 at The Whitney Museum of American Art, mar 14 - jun 21 09 at MOCA
"This animation presents the geometry that is the basis of many of Fuller's key ideas and concepts. At the beginning, twelve spheres are packed as closely as possible around a single central sphere. As the spheres shrink and disappear, they generate a polyhedron in which all edges and all radii are of equal length. This shape is what Fuller called a vector equilibrium. One of the characteristics of a vector equilibrium is its ability to contract by folding in on itself. The animation demonstrates how this simple geometric shape can be transformed to create several complex polyhedra (video)"
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Winter 2008
Buckminster Fuller exhibit : jul - oct 08 at The Whitney Museum of American Art, mar 14 - jun 21 09 at MOCA
"This animation presents the geometry that is the basis of many of Fuller's key ideas and concepts. At the beginning, twelve spheres are packed as closely as possible around a single central sphere. As the spheres shrink and disappear, they generate a polyhedron in which all edges and all radii are of equal length. This shape is what Fuller called a vector equilibrium. One of the characteristics of a vector equilibrium is its ability to contract by folding in on itself. The animation demonstrates how this simple geometric shape can be transformed to create several complex polyhedra (video)"
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packing of spheres
packing of spheres, pt. 2
render tests
render tests
render tests
joint details
joint details, screen test
screen test
screen test
geometry test
geometry test
vector equilibrium
rhino construction
projection test, whitney museum
render tests