Download 3-Strut Spring Tensegrity

This is an interesting new adaptation of Buckminster Fuller’s tensegrity structures that uses spring wire and struts instead of tendons and struts to make a structure that supports itself. It will not carry load like a true tensegrity will but may have other interesting conceptual applications. The animation is demonstrating a range of potential structures created by driving some parameters with an adaptation of Fuller’s twist angle theorem for determining the twist angle of an n-strut tensegrity.