• buckminster fuller institute http://www.bfi.org
• faq http://www.cjfearnley.com/fuller-faq.html
• Mapping the mapper, http://www.nous.org.uk/BFMAP.html
• the dymaxion projection http://www.geni.org/energy/library/buckminster_fuller/dymaxion_map/dymaxion_projection.html
• the world game http://www.worldgame.org)
• Design Science

(dymaxion projection)

“The Dymaxion Map is the only flat map of the entire surface of the earth that reveals our planet as it really is an island in one ocean without any visible distortion of the relative shapes and sizes of the land areas, and without splitting any continents.”

• dymaxion maps
  • http://www.geni.org/energy/library/buckminster_fuller/dymaxion_map/dymaxion_projection.html
  • in flash > http://www.aether.hu/dymaxion.htm
  • animated (un)folding of icosohedral projection >http://www.westnet.com/%7Ecrywalt/unfold.html
• “Dymaxion Man” > http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/09/080609fa_fact_kolbert/?printable=true

online edition http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/toc/toc.html

for reading notes → Reading Synergetics

'tensional integrity.' Tensegrity structures rely on on tension and compresssion for structual integrity. All natural forms, from atoms to galaxies and human bodies contain tensional (pulling) and compressional (pushing) components.

• from Synergetics → http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/s07/p1400.html
• jitterbug models → http://www.newciv.org/Synergetic_Geometry/tjbug.htm)
• on a cellular level → http://www.sciam.com/1998/0198issue/0198ingber.html

a brief paper on building models of artificial ocean protzoa http://www.georgehart.com/radiolaria/radiolaria.html

(see also notes in Second Skin)

see: Geodesic Dome

“During the last two weeks of January 1975 Buckminster Fuller gave an extraordinary series of lectures concerning his entire life's work. These thinking out loud lectures span 42 hours and examine in depth all of Fuller's major inventions and discoveries from the 1927 Dymaxion house, car and bathroom, through the Wichita House, geodesic domes, and tensegrity structures, as well as the contents of Synergetics.” annotated/transcribed at http://memeticdrift.net/bucky/

• http://www.worldgame.org/
• vrml http://www.webearth.org/planetwork/

http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/about_tai/index.html

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