Beverly would often demonstrate these concepts with models, because he felt that they were so important to understanding how the universe works. According to fuller, all structure is based on triangles. And when i give workshops, what i basically do is have them start by building. I do it different ways, but they build with marsh mellows and toothpicks, a cube and a tetrahedron. They discover that the tube will not hold its shape. It will fold flat completely. Whereas the tetrahedrons holds its shape quite well. The reason for this isBecause it's all triangles and the cube is not. If you wanted to stabilize that cube, the best way to do
In this episode, we chat with inventor, writer, producer, and educator Kurt Przybilla on American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, critic of work, and futurist R. Buckminster Fuller.
Kurt Przybilla invented Tetra Tops, the world’s first spinning top with more than one axis of spin, which were inspired by the works of Buckminster Fuller and have been featured in the New York Times, Popular Science, Baby Einstein, Child and Discover Magazine, as well as at the Smithsonian Institute. He is co-creator, writer and producer of the Molecularium Project at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he has produced and co-written Molecules to the MAX!, a 3D animated film for Giant Screen IMAX theaters, Molecularium, an award winning digital dome feature, and NanoSpace, an game-based online theme park to teach kids about atoms and molecules.
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Hilaritas Podcast
Host/Producer Mike Gathers
Engineer/Producer Ryan Reeves
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“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
“The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it's a different kind of life.”
- R. Buckminster Fuller.