From: The Butterfly (salsbury_at_bootstrap.sculptors.com)
Date: 05/12/98
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 11:49:07 -0700 Message-Id: <199805121849.LAA08616@bootstrap.sculptors.com> From: The Butterfly <salsbury_at_bootstrap.sculptors.com> Subject: Re: Been kinda quiet, lately...
-From: Chris_McCoy_at_sigmanet.com
-Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 15:49:43 -0700
-***I think that light-weight geodesic sections give you this possibility.
-The stress
-is evenly distributed. As long as your calcs are dead-on balls accurate,
-you end up with
-a strong structure that could have an aluminium frame with foam or
-cardboard
-skin.
-
Actually, geodesics are even more forgiving than that. The calcs
have to be dead-on balls accurate in order to get the geometry right, so
the parts all fit together, but the stress-loads are amazing.
Pat
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