Build “magic,” gravity-defying structures–with Legos, kite string, and physics

Re:Build “magic,” gravity-defying structures–with Legos, kit... by whiddershins on Saturday April 25, 2020 @05:14PM (#22981556)

There’s a great book I can’t recall the name of that puts forth the notion that we commonly make the mistake of modeling the human body as a compressive structure, when it is just as much or more a tensegretic structure.

We aren’t piled bone on bone like a concrete block house.

Fascinating idea.

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Re:Build “magic,” gravity-defying structures–with Legos, kit... by twic on Saturday April 25, 2020 @05:41PM (#22981791)

I hadn't heard that applied at the level of the body, that's interesting!

Back when i was a cell biologist, i was very excited to read an argument that cells had tensegral structure:

https://jcs.biologists.org/content/116/7/1157

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