Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of ThinkingSynergetics, according to E. J. Applewhite, was Fuller's name for the geometry he advanced based on the patterns of energy that he saw in nature. For Fuller, geometry was a laboratory science with the touch and feel of physical models--not rules out of a textbook. It gains its validity not from classic abstractions but from the results of individual physical experience. Description by the Buckminster Fuller Institute, courtesy of The Estate of Buckminster Fuller |
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... degrees . Because spheres are not continu- ous surfaces but are polyhedra defined by the vectorially interconnecting chords of an astronomical number of event foci ... degrees , minus two times 360 degrees 54 224.081 Synergetics Principles.
... degrees . Because spheres are not continu- ous surfaces but are polyhedra defined by the vectorially interconnecting chords of an astronomical number of event foci ... degrees , minus two times 360 degrees 54 224.081 Synergetics Principles.
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... degrees around every point on a sphere . The sum of a sphere's angles was said to be infinite . The halo concept and its angularly generated topology proves that there are always 720 degrees , or two times unity of 360 degrees , less ...
... degrees around every point on a sphere . The sum of a sphere's angles was said to be infinite . The halo concept and its angularly generated topology proves that there are always 720 degrees , or two times unity of 360 degrees , less ...
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... degrees , 60 degrees and 36 degrees vs. 90 degrees , 60 degrees , 30 degrees of their corresponding planar triangle . Therefore , 6 degrees per each spherical triangle times 120 spherical triangles amounts to a total of 720 degrees ...
... degrees , 60 degrees and 36 degrees vs. 90 degrees , 60 degrees , 30 degrees of their corresponding planar triangle . Therefore , 6 degrees per each spherical triangle times 120 spherical triangles amounts to a total of 720 degrees ...
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