tensegrity 4 way grid

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Permalink Reply by taz on April 29, 2010 at 7:40am

Can you post an image or reference?

Permalink Reply by Lida Sklirou on April 29, 2010 at 7:52am

I am looking into a component that controls light admittance into my space and that will open and close accordingly.I am looking into the tensegrity systens because they allow for different paramorphosis and in the attached examples which I am looking into i.e the two way one the one triangle to be the closed option and the inverted one as the open one,.
I am not sure how to work on it in grasshopper though,..how to experiment with those transformations how generate the transformation
Many thanks

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Permalink Reply by Ben Sitler on April 29, 2010 at 9:42am

Perhaps Geiger's Cabledome structures will be of use as they are based on a square grid and create a roofing apparatus. I've attached two images from my course notes and here's a link to my professor's publications . Professor You also does a lot of research with deployable structures so you should find something of use among his work.

Best regards,
Ben

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Permalink Reply by Lida Sklirou on April 29, 2010 at 6:55pm

Thanks Ben.I will definitely have a look,
Many thanks.

Permalink Reply by taz on April 29, 2010 at 6:16pm

I'm not sure those sketches represent a stable structural configuration. Have you tried to model it physically or looked at Kangaroo?

http://vimeo.com/10842511

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/kangaroophysics

Permalink Reply by Lida Sklirou on April 29, 2010 at 6:52pm

Hey,
they do but making the actual physical model was quite a struggle as the choice of materials are quite important.I 've downloaded kangaroo yesterday but haven't managed to do anything as yet. Thanks for the links and help. Have you worked on tensegrity or tensile structures yourself?

Permalink Reply by Lida Sklirou on April 29, 2010 at 7:54am

just added a few more images on the 4 way grid

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