In the opaque terminology of Fuller "Tensegrity describes a structural- relationship principle in which structural shape is guaranteed by the finitely closed, comprehensively continuous, tensional behaviors of the system and not by the discontinuous 
In the opaque terminology of Fuller "Tensegrity describes a structural- relationship principle in which structural shape is guaranteed by the finitely closed, comprehensively continuous, tensional behaviors of the system and not by the discontinuous and exclusively local compressional member behaviors." How many members (or struts) does the simplest tensegrity octahedron have ... the members do not touch each other, they are held together at their ends by a tension net.
In the opaque terminology of Fuller "Tensegrity describes a structural- relationship principle in which structural shape is guaranteed by the finitely closed, comprehensively continuous, tensional behaviors of the system and not by the discontinuous and exclusively local compressional member behaviors.
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