From MAILER-DAEMON@netaxs.com Tue Oct 24 17:03:27 1995 Received: from UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu (ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu [128.205.2.1]) by access.netaxs.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id RAA00275 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 17:03:27 -0400 Message-Id: <199510242103.RAA00275@access.netaxs.com> Received: from UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU by UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with BSMTP id 5428; Tue, 24 Oct 95 17:01:28 EDT Received: from UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@UBVM) by UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 0563; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 16:35:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 16:34:34 -0400 From: "L-Soft list server at UBVM (1.8b)" Subject: File: "GEODESIC LOG9504" To: "Christopher J. Fearnley" Status: RO ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 05:45:24 -0500 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Nick Pine Organization: Villanova University Subject: Domes and windmills I wonder how it would work to put a windmill on top of a foam/concrete dome? Say, a 40' hemisphere, home-sized dome... These domes are very strong, as presently built, with 2" of reinforced concrete under 3" of urethane foam. They are also fairly heavy, about 40 tons, including the concrete pad, for a 40' hemisphere. They are pretty much earthquake-proof and tornado-proof, if not nuclear-proof. Some of the larger versions, eg 200' domes used for grain storage, have hundred-ton cranes sitting on top, with no extra support. A 40' dome would only be 20' high in the center, but the dome would tend to speed up the wind, and the nearest obstruction would be at least 20' away... I'd like to see a high-speed, six-bladed double-delta Darrieus rotor on top of a dome, a vertical-axis machine consisting of two tetrahedra joined on one face, rotating on two points, sitting on an automobile wheel attached to a 5:1 step-up gear auto rear end, with the spider gears welded together, as a right-angle drive for an induction motor or modified auto alternator. The other wheel attached to the auto differential might sit on top of the dome. The motor would start the rotor (and brake it to stall it), since this windmill probably wouldn't be self-starting. The windmill might be made of six pieces of 8-16' galvanized or PVC-covered steel tubing, with six thin, low-solidity dacron sailcloth sailblades with leading edges wrapped around the tubing and trailing edges attached to six galvanized or plastic-covered guy wires. A tension ring with three more horizontal guy wires connecting the points of the tetrahedra at the halfway point would give the structure vertical support, and three more guy wires would support a pillow block at the the top end, running from that point down to three of the reinforcing rods in the dome. Nick ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 05:48:35 -0500 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Nick Pine Organization: Villanova University Subject: Re: CRITICAL PATH Ruth Temple wrote: >Anybody else have that rock-back-on-your-heels-with-amazement >and delight reaction? Sure. I first heard him speak in Philadelphia, and I cried as I listened... Nick ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 10:25:33 +0000 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Jim Frye Subject: Re: Domes and windmills In-Reply-To: On Sat, 1 Apr 1995, Nick Pine wrote: > I wonder how it would work to put a windmill on top of a foam/concrete dome? > Say, a 40' hemisphere, home-sized dome... These domes are very strong, as > presently built, with 2" of reinforced concrete under 3" of urethane foam. > They are also fairly heavy, about 40 tons, including the concrete pad, for a > 40' hemisphere. They are pretty much earthquake-proof and tornado-proof, > if not nuclear-proof. Some of the larger versions, eg 200' domes used for > grain storage, have hundred-ton cranes sitting on top, with no extra support. Nick, I'm *not* an engineer (much less a structural engineer :)) but something strikes me as odd about this notion. While I have no doubts at all about the ability of the dome to support the *weight* of a windmill (cranes too of course), with the windmill you've got to worry about angular forces. The large crane would be sitting on a rather large *base* on the top of the dome---with the weight spread over a larger *area*. The windmill I picture as more like a *spear* sticking straight into one point on the top of the dome. Further, the wind would be trying to push it to one side. I don't see how it could be braced---but even if you could attach guy-wires to it, the tension of the wires would merely try to push the point (base) of the mill even further into the dome. As I see it then, the mast of the windmill would probably have to go straight *through* the dome into the ground. The dome would of course provide excellent bracing for the windmill (killing two birds with one stone so to speak)! Alternately, I can envision the windmill being supported by a "hatband" or ring around some upper portion of the dome. In any event, it also occurs to me that a totally *new* design for a dome mounted windmill might be in order. The airflow around the dome is certainly intriguing---though as I understand it, it's pretty local. That is, you would actually find higher windspeeds closer to the dome than you would say, 15 or 20 feet, *above* the dome (depending of course on the size of the dome). Ummm....some sort of *horizontal* mill? A *curved* arrangement about the top third of the dome? A...uhh, uhhh, duhhh...'ya got me but it's something to think about . Never thought about it before---but it does seem a shame to waste all that nice, *channeled* wind-power! Regards, Jim Frye jimfrye@wsp1.wspice.com 4375 Riviera Memphis, TN 38108 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 11:25:06 -0600 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Chuck Stoffregen Subject: Re: Dome Books >Chuck Stoffregen (cas1276@MADISON.TEC.WI.US) wrote: >> The best geodesic math book that I have come across is "Dome Cookbook of >> Geodesic Geometry", by David Kruschke. It is a photocopied, hand written, >> paperback, but with powerful concise information. > > I'd be very interested in knowing where copies of this book can be >obtained. Especially since the other books are all basically out-of-print. > > Thanks, > Andy Heremtz > s009aeh@discover.wright.edu The book I borrowed from thw Janesville Piblic Library, Janesville, Wisconsin. The Copyright date is 1972, 1975. I suggest doing an interlibrary loan search, but if you still end up empty-handed contact me by e-mail. Chuck Stoffregen Computer Teacher Madison Area Technical College cas1276@madison.tec.wi.us ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 11:07:39 PST Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: 4D TIME LOCK CONTENTS OF '4D TIME LOCK' BY R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER, 1929 FOREWORD PREFACE PART 1: 4D 1. THE GREAT ECONOMIC PROBLEM OF THIS AGE AND ALL AGES: THE HOME 2. THE NEW GENERATION AND THE REVOLUTION OF TRUTH 3. THE WASTE OF STYLISM VS. THE WORTH OF CHARACTER 4. PRESENT CHAOTIC PICTURE:HOME BUILDING MATERIALS, METHODS, PLANNING,FINANCE 5. ANALYSIS OF THE OPPOSITION 6. ANALYSIS OF THE MARKET--ITS SCOPE AND DEMANDS 7. CITY VS.COUNTRY DESIGN: CRITICISM OF BOTH; INDICATION OF TRENDS; SOLUTION 8. ANALYSIS OF STANDARDIZATION, TRUTH, ADVERTISING AND CONTROL 9. WEIGHT IN BUILDING AS THE NEW ECONOMICAL FACTOR 10. REVOLUTION IN DESIGN:INDUSTRIAL ARTS VS.SELFISH CREATION;NEW SCALE & TIME 11. BUILDING FROM THE "INSIDE OUT"AS OPPOSED TO "BUILDING FROM THE OUTSIDE IN" 12. ABSTRACT DESIGN, HARMONY, AND FOURTH DIMENSIONAL CONTROL 13. EFFECT ON EDUCATION, ETC, OF NEW HOME; THE NEW HOME IS APPLIED PHILOSOPHY 14. FINAL ANALYSIS & GUIDING CONSIDERATIONS ESSENTIAL TO WELL ROUNDED SOLUTION 15. SOME BRIEF DISCLOSURES OF THE HOUSE ITSELF AS IT WILL APPEAR IN THE MARKET 16. SOME REMARKS ON THE BUSINESS ORGANIZATION 17. THE LETTERS PATENT 18. REFERENCES AND DEDICATION 19. LAND TO SKY--THE OUTWARD PROGRESSION 20. THE BEGINNING, RATHER THAN THE END (A FOOTNOTE) PART 2: THE "CHROMOCHRONOFILE" IN 9 PARTS 1. INTRODUCTION--CONTACT 2. FIRST ANNOUNCEMENTS AND ANSWERS (57 LETTERS "TO" AND "FROM") 3. LETTER TO J.M.HEWLETT, F.A.I.A., WITH PATENT (BUCKY'S FATHER-IN-LAW) 4. SECOND EXCHANGE OF LETTERS (30 LETTERS "TO" AND "FROM") 5. LETTERS TO ROSAMOND FULLER (BUCKY'S SISTER) 6. THIRD LETTER GROUP (5 LETTERS "TO" AND "FROM") 7. LETTER TO PAUL D. NELSON, ESQ, PARIS, FRANCE (INCLUDES "TOP" FORMULA) 8. LETTER TO VINCENT ASTOR, ESQ. (INCLUDES 25 4D DRAWINGS) 9. LETTER TO GEORGE N. BUFFINGTON, ESQ. (29 PAGES) (NO INDEX) -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 14:34:05 -0500 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Nick Pine Organization: Villanova University Subject: Re: Domes and windmills Jim Frye wrote: >On Sat, 1 Apr 1995, Nick Pine wrote: > >> I wonder how it would work to put a windmill on top of a foam/concrete dome? >> Say, a 40' hemisphere, home-sized dome... These domes are very strong, as >> presently built, with 2" of reinforced concrete under 3" of urethane foam. >> They are also fairly heavy, about 40 tons, including the concrete pad, for a >> 40' hemisphere. They are pretty much earthquake-proof and tornado-proof, >> if not nuclear-proof. Some of the larger versions, eg 200' domes used for >> grain storage, have hundred-ton cranes sitting on top, with no extra support. > > Nick, I'm *not* an engineer Whup. Say no more :-) I don't speak ex-cathedra on structures either, but my intuition counters your intuition, and I am an engineer, but the wrong kind. Perhaps it is time to seek professional help :-) >I don't see how it could be braced---but even if >you could attach guy-wires to it, the tension of the wires would merely >try to push the point (base) of the mill even further into the dome. Like I said, three guy wires. This part seems simple to me. That push is part of the what would make this windmill stand up straight and rigid, in spite of sideways forces, like a guyed windmill or radio antenna. That's a "planned push." >As I see it then, the mast of the windmill would probably have to go >straight *through* the dome into the ground. I don't think so. Part of the horizontal load, F x sin(somethingorother), will appear as downward vertical load on the "mast," but that's OK. Concrete domes are really good at supporting vertical loads on top. My gut feeling is that vibration and noise will not be a problem either, with the fixed wheel resting on 3" of urethane foam, on top of 2" of reinforced concrete. > In any event, it also occurs to me that a totally *new* design for a >dome mounted windmill might be in order. What I suggested IS a totally new design. The closest other windmills I've ever seen or heard of are the curved eggbeater Darrieus, which is similar but different in that this one I suggested would have two straight blades in place of one curved rib, with the joint at the middle, halfway up, and it would have three of these blades around the perimeter instead of two; and the delta Darrieus configuration suggested by NASA around 1980, which was only the bottom half of what I suggested... >The airflow around the dome is >certainly intriguing---though as I understand it, it's pretty local. >That is, you would actually find higher windspeeds closer to the dome >than you would say, 15 or 20 feet, *above* the dome (depending of course >on the size of the dome). Ummm....some sort of *horizontal* mill? Perhaps you mean "vertical axis," as I suggested, turning about an axis perpendicular to the earth's surface... If you used 8' struts, this windmill would be about 18' above the dome's surface, at its highest point, including the auto rear end, mounted with one wheel on top of the dome and the other above it. The wheel in the air would support the bottom point of the lower tetrahedron. Most of the cross- sectional area of the swept area of the blades would be about 7' above the dome's top... >Never thought about it before---but it does seem a shame to waste all that >nice, *channeled* wind-power! Yes. I'd really like to see one of these. It would be very lightweight and "ephemeral," in Bucky's sense. Doing more with less. The six sailblades would each be about 4-6" in width, and 8' long, and their 1" leading edge tubes would be part of the structure that held this all up. would. It would take some engineering and experimenting to make it work, but I'm very sure it could be made to work well. Nick ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 17:14:06 -0800 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Karl Erickson Subject: IRC @ #bucky @ 7pm pst sunday 4/2/95 this is the weekly reminder for any interested souls to join the bucky conference on Sunday, April 2, at 7pm pst - 10pm est. just go to irc and type: /join #bucky here we shall discuss, among other things, the BuckyBot which we hope to install permanently on the channel in the near future. the buckybot will provide pointers to other internet fuller points-of-interest, while also providing valuable services to experienced buckyphiles, such as file and image transfers, etc. it will also keep the channel in existance even when nobody is on it. we are actively seeking further uses for the bot, so if you have any ideas, please join us. also, we shall discuss whether we might want the "permanent" bucky channel to be called #geodesic, or perhaps #fuller, instead - for reasons to be elucidated to those who show up at the conference :) . see you there! -k. erixon - setebos@netcom.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 23:16:59 -0500 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: jfischer Subject: Re: Domes and windmills >I wonder how it would work to put a windmill on top of a foam/concrete dome? 1) Windmills make noise. The noise may be a bother, since domes tend to reflect sound towards the center, thus making the noise seem worse. 2) The highly localized stresses created by the wind on the windmill would create a "single point" of regular wear and tear on the dome components around the windmill. While the dome's network would attempt to spread these stresses around the entire dome, the localized twist, shear, and changing force vectors (such as when the wind shifts direction) would tend to weaken the dome where the windmill is attached. 3) I have not done wind-tunnel tests, but the airflow over a dome may not be what you expect. Think of the waves around a breakwater. My gut feel is that this is a turbulent environment. Turbulence is a bitch - check out the math... 4) In general, windmills are put on towers to place them above the tree line. The top of the dome may not be above the tree line. Therefore, you might end up building a tower on top of the dome, thus creating a simple lever (the tower) to amplify the forces mentioned above. 5) Windpower sites must be selected with care. My wind generator sits roughly 1/2 mile from my home. The best place for the wind is seldom the best place for the house/dome. 6) Windmills are viewed as an "attractive nuisance" by most local governments and all insurance firms. Therefore, you are in a bad liability position if a windmill on top of your home causes any harm to workmen, visitors, the postman, or even a tresspasser. I was "forced" by this situation to "defend" my windmill tower site in a manner similar to the steps taken to protect radio/TV towers. 8-foot fence, barbed wire, and an alarm system all to simply prevent someone from getting within the "danger zone". 7) Windmills have a marginal (if any) payback unless the wind speed is constant AND over 15 mph. Unless you are very lucky, or just want a water-pumper, do your data-collection first. Happy to help if you need it, send e-mail. 8) Bucky did a nice tensgristy tower for radio applications. Take a look at a "tower" approach if you are dead set on it. 9) If it is not self-starting, it is not a practical windpower solution. The wind is an unpredictable thing, so maximize your utilization by using a self-starting design. Scrap the Darrieus, and look at kits you can buy, unless you have an engineering degree and lots of time on your hands. (Mine took two years of messing about, and six blade designs before I had a power output that would justify the investment. Even then, the payback (if avoided cost rates keep (NOT) going up at their current rate) is more like 8-10 years than 2-5. This means that while it is a possible solution for a home far away from the electrical grid, it is a poor investment if compared to even low-return government paper. Check out your local streams!!!! My wind generator is a nice "show and tell" for clients, but it has a PEAK generating record of 20KW. My stream puts out a minimum of 7KW, and a maximum of 32KW (in spring) on a steady 24hr/365 day basis AND the investment required was 1/2 that of the windmill. Moral - Gravity works forever. The wind is not so dependable. Secondary Moral - It is nice to get a check FROM the power company every month, but be prepared to spend several years income from the windmill just to get your local utility to admit that the power you are generating has value and is a reliable source of power that is worth buying. The standard approach taken by all utilities is that any independent power producer under 100KW is a "toy" with no commerical value. This is because they have not been able to figure out how to charge YOU for using the force of gravity, the sun, or the wind. Once they figure out how to have exclusive rights to these things, expect windmills and micro-hyrdo-power to be as common as coke machines... ------- If you cut here, your display may implode ----------- ______________ /\ ___________\ This writer's statements are definitive. \ \ \________ / Recent findings in physics have proven the \ \ \ / / / universe to be inherently random. If this \ \ \ / / / writer's statements conflict with reality, \ \ \/ / / this may well be due to the inherently \ \/ / / random nature of reality itself, rather James \ / / than any error on the part of the author. Fischer\/_/ jfischer@inmind.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 21:35:27 PST Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: BUCKY FOR BEGINNERS CONTENTS OF 'BUCKY FOR BEGINNERS: SYNERGETIC GEOMETRY' BY MARY LAYCOCK, 1984 DEDICATION AND QUOTES FROM BUCKY 1. MAKE A DOME 2. WHAT IS A SYSTEM? 3. HOW CAN YOU FOLD A TETRA? 4. WHAT IS THE VOLUME IN TETRA UNITS? 5. WHAT IS THE VOLUME OF A CUBE? 6. STELLATE AN OCTAHEDRON; WHAT DO YOU CREATE? 7. WHAT IS THE VOLUME OF A 2 FREQUENCY TETRA? 8. HOW MANY SPHERES PACK AROUND A CENTRAL SPHERE? 9. WHAT IS THE VOLUME OF THE VECTOR EQUILIBRIUM? 10. CAN "BOW TIES" MAKE A VECTOR EQUILIBRIUM? 11. IS 1 AND 1 = 4? WHEN? 12. IS 2 AND 2 = 8? WHEN? 13. CAN YOU MAKE A CUBE RIGID? 14. HOW DO GASSES, SOLIDS, AND LIQUIDS MOVE? 15. "UNZIP" A TETRAHELIX; WHAT DOES IT FORM? 16. WHAT CAN A JITTERBUG FORM? 17. HOW CAN SPHERES FORM A TETRA? 18. CAN YOU SOLVE THE TETRA PUZZLE 19. BUCKY'S FAVORITE TETRA PUZZLE 20. HOW CAN YOU GROW HEXAGONAL NUMBERS? 21. TETRAHEDRAL FREQUENCY AND HEX NUMBERS 22. HOW DOES A CUBE RELATE TO A VECTOR EQUILIBRIUM? 23. HOW DOES A TETRA RELATE TO AN OCTA? 24. START WITH AN OCTA; WHAT DO YOU GET? 25. START WITH AN ICOSAHEDRON; WHAT DO YOU GET? 26. START WITH A DODECAHEDRON; WHAT DO YOU GET? 27. CAN 3 GREAT CIRCLES FOLD INTO AN OCTAHEDRON? 28. WHAT DO PENTAGONAL "BOW TIES" CREATE? 29. WHAT IS ANGULAR TOPOLOGY? 30. WHAT IS AN OCTAL TRUSS? 31. MAKE A MODEL OF SPACESHIP EARTH! GLOSSARY TEACHER NOTES MATERIALS NEEDED BIBLIOGRAPHY (NO INDEX) ( Available from: Activity Resources Co, Inc. ) ( P.O.Box 4875 ) ( Hayward, CA 94540 ) -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 23:30:04 -0700 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Evan Ravitz Subject: Re: Domes and windmills In-Reply-To: <199504020431.VAA22293@darkstar.cygnus.com> Very interesting about wind vs water generation. I once saw a news article about a solar/wind generator which _created_ that much-sought steady 15mph+ breeze: basically a plastic conical tower open at the bottom, solar- heated and creating the "chimney effect" out the top, where the wind generator was located. Voila, wind whenever the sun was out. The generator was rigidly mounted facing down, not pivoting around. Anyone know any more about this? Evan Ravitz, director - "I'm a means to an end, I'm everybody's friend." Voting by Phone Foundation - "Power to the People" First in the world on the evan@welcomehome.org | ballot. Ask for our Denver Post and Wall St. (303)440-6838 tel/fax | Journal articles. We sell voting systems! "If there is a problem with democracy, the solution is more democracy." -Alexander Hamilton ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 07:45:26 GMT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Bob Hiltner Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever Subject: Re: CRITICAL PATH TEMPLE, RUTH (TEMPLE@VAX2Z.SCZ.SSI1.COM) wrote: : Informal poll: what was your first introduction to Bucky's work? : what was your reaction? My wife and I were in the middle of our year of "checking out of society to travel and explore" period. I was on a bit of a tech "downer" after reading Gerry Mander's (yes, at least that's the name on the cover!) _In the Absence of the Sacred_ wherein he decries much if not all of technology, or at least our approach to it. One of the bennies of travelling with nothing in particular to do, and no tv or internet access, is that you have lots of time to reflect and read.... Anyway, a few months later, I was visiting my brother in Juneau, Alaska, and grabbed another book. It was _Critical Path_. I had some vague idea of who bucky was, but really struggled with the first 75 pages or so, almost putting it down. Then I hit stride a bit better with his writing style, and cruised through the rest of the book almost without putting it down. I was hooked. Big time. Now my growing collection (from haunting the local used bookstores in Seattle) of bucky books is a bit of an inside joke with my wife and me. So, I feel like reading that book really changed by life. I'm still a bit worried (understatement) about whether we'll make it, but I sure do see the potential now if we do make it. And I think with the accellerating accelleration of the rate of technological growth that we just might find out one way or the other before anyone would expect.... --Bob Hiltner : Ruth Temple : RuthTemple@aol.com : 1889 Redwood Drive : Aptos, CA 95003 -- Bob Hiltner "It is not enough to do well (and I hope you do), you must also do good" ^^^^ ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 06:17:49 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Nick Pine Organization: Villanova University Subject: Re: Domes and windmills jfischer wrote: >>I wonder how it would work to put a windmill on top of a foam/concrete dome? > > 1) Windmills make noise. The noise may be a bother... True. It may be. But it may not be. I suspect not. You suspect so. So? > 2) The highly localized stresses created by the wind on the > windmill would create a "single point" of regular wear > and tear on the dome components around the windmill. Not if the dome is made of reinforced concrete. > 3) I have not done wind-tunnel tests, but the airflow over a > dome may not be what you expect. I expect the airflow will be fairly laminar, with a Reynold's number of less than 5000. What do your calculations show? > 4) In general, windmills are put on towers to place them above > the tree line. The top of the dome may not be above the > tree line. Then again, it may. And if you wanted to build a tower on top of a reinforced concrete dome, that would probably make a fine foundation. > 5) Windpower sites must be selected with care. My wind generator > sits roughly 1/2 mile from my home. The best place for > the wind is seldom the best place for the house/dome. Perhaps, but there is sometimes virtue in combination, ie "synergy." I wonder if the difficulties you had have somehow tainted your judgement... > 6) Windmills are viewed as an "attractive nuisance" by most > local governments and all insurance firms. Therefore, > you are in a bad liability position if a windmill on > top of your home causes any harm to workmen, visitors, > the postman, or even a trespasser. If the dome is a hemisphere, it seems much safer to put the windmill on top than on a tower from the ground. OTOH, if the dome is a smaller section of a sphere, you may have people walking up to visit the windmill, if there is no perimeter fence. Of course, anything can fall down if it wants to. Part of life is defeating gravity. > 7) Windmills have a marginal (if any) payback unless the wind > speed is constant AND over 15 mph. Of course that depends on how big they are and how much they cost, and what you do with the electricity... > do your data-collection first. Unforch, I have. PA is the second least-windy state in the country, as I recall... Are we telling each other what to do here? :-) > 8) Bucky did a nice tensgristy tower for radio applications. > Take a look at a "tower" approach if you are dead set on it. I like the idea of putting a windmill on top of a dome better, thanks. ("Tensgristy"? Are they those little Italian cookies? :-) > 9) If it is not self-starting, it is not a practical windpower > solution. Sounds like merde du taureau to me... :-) > The wind is an unpredictable thing, so maximize > your utilization by using a self-starting design. I don't see how a self-starting design would get any more power out of the wind than a clever design with assisted start, using a microcomputer, etc. Can you explain that in excruciating detail, please? And a self-starting design may be harder to stop or slow down to constant power output in a gale. > Scrap the Darrieus, and look at kits you can buy, Are you telling me what to do again? > unless you have an engineering degree and lots of time > on your hands. Actually, I have two of them, as well as registration to practice in the US patent office, and 25 years of engineering experience, and some spare time. But little wind, and more interest in solar power... I was sort of suggesting this here in the hope that somebody else might pursue it. Not you, I guess... > (Mine took two years of messing about, and six blade designs > before I had a power output that would justify the investment. I had in mind starting with some aerodynamic computer simulations of vertical axis windmills, such as the Darrieus simulations done at McGill, or was it the Ecole Polytechnique, in Montreal. And I started building one of these, with 8' Clark Y sailblades and 1" PVC-coated steel tubing and plastic-coated steel cable on top of a Datsun rear end, which made a fine 4 1/2:1 right-angle drive, after I welded the spider gears together. There was an alternator where the driveshaft used to be, but I couldn't figure out how to get much power out of the alternator at low rpm. Seems like some sort of high frequency field excitation might help, perhaps synchonized to the power line, to make it a sort of synchronous inverter, a sort of low-speed induction generator. The problem is that the bigger you make the windmill, the more power you get and the more economies of scale, but the rpm goes down, and low-speed generators and step-up gears seem to be expensive... > Even then, the payback (if avoided cost rates keep (NOT) going > up at their current rate) is more like 8-10 years than 2-5. In PA, the utilities pay you at retail, until your net monthly bill gets down to 0. Then they start paying avoided cost at 2 cents/kWh or so. This isn't a bad deal... > This means that while it is a possible solution for a home far > away from the electrical grid, it is a poor investment if > compared to even low-return government paper. Maybe, but it might be more fun :-) All of the materials to make one of these cost me less than $100, including the silicone-impregnated dacron sailcloth, for a fairly high-speed, lightweight windmill with a swept area of about 80 square feet. The most expensive part was the $35 Datsun rear end, used of course. But there are lots of used auto rear ends for sale. >Check out your local streams!!!! My wind generator is a nice "show and tell" >for clients, but it has a PEAK generating record of 20KW. My stream puts >out a minimum of 7KW, and a maximum of 32KW (in spring) on a steady 24hr/365 >day basis AND the investment required was 1/2 that of the windmill. I have a local bog. Will that help? :-) >Moral - Gravity works forever. The wind is not so dependable. We were just discussing that in alt.energy.renewable, where people say "gravity is energy." They also ask questions like "where can I buy a 14 volt fuse?" > It is nice to get a check FROM the power company every > month, but be prepared to spend several years income from the > windmill just to get your local utility to admit that the power > you are generating has value and is a reliable source of power > that is worth buying. As a practical matter, many utilities are not prepared to send checks to customers, so they do things like bank future energy credits instead. In Pennsylvania, and in most states, I believe, the utilities have to buy your power, as a matter of law (PURPA) even at the microwatt level, but they don't have to make it easy. For instance, Con Ed in NYC requires that you interface at their substation, at a voltage level of 13 kV or more, and pay for the transformers and transmission lines from you to them, and install telemonitoring and control, at your place and theirs, to allow them to call up your windmill and ask it how much power it is generating at what voltage and power factor, and so on, and they want to be able to connect and disconnect your parallel system from the grid remotely, by telephone. This seems ridiculous to me, for a cogen unit that produces as much power as a toaster oven consumes... They require something on the order of $100,000 worth of protective and control equipment for a $7K cogenerator. The way to fix this is to appeal to the PUC, saying that this amounts to a de-facto way of defeating the purpose of PURPA, and that some other solution is necessary. That's a noble but ugly job. I'm sympathetic to the idea that what you do with the wires that come into your house is entirely your business, after they enter your house, as is now the case with the phone company, subject to certain safety precautions. I think just making the meter run backwards makes sense. But I digress. > The standard approach taken by all utilities > is that any independent power producer under 100KW is a "toy" with > no commerical value. Sure, but that's just an attitude. They are legally required to buy your power... > This is because they have not been able to figure out how to charge > YOU for using the force of gravity, the sun, or the wind. Where I live, there is a monthly charge to be connected to the grid. That doesn't seem unreasonable to me, considering that they have to pay for the wire to my house and its maintenance. They are people too, and they are in business to make money... Nick ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 13:41:59 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: INTUITION CONTENTS OF 'INTUITION' BY R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER, 1972 NOTE FROM EZRA POUND (6-29-71 SPOLETO, ITALY) 1. INTUITION: METAPHYSICAL MOSAIC (7-30-69 CAMDEN, MAINE) 2. BRAIN AND MIND (_-__-__ _______, _____) 3. LOVE (9-06-70 ISFAHAN, IRAN ) 4. THE LORD'S PRAYER (8-13-66 BEAR ISLAND, MAINE) 5. THE LORD'S PRAYER--SECOND VERSION (6-30-71 ROME, ITALY) (NO INDEX) -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 13:43:08 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: GEODESIC WINDMILLS GEODESIC WINDMILLS BY Joe S. Moore Windmills as presently designed are expensive to build and maintain, unable to operate in high winds, and environmentally offensive (noisy, too tall, etc.). In 1975 R. Buckminster Fuller suggested a design that would seem to solve all of the above problems. A wind turbine could be enclosed inside a geodesic dome. A ventilator mounted near the top of the dome would cause part or all of it to rotate as the wind direction changed. The low pressure area near the exit of the ventilator would draw air in from the bottom of the dome and out through the top, thereby turning the turbine blades and shaft attached to the generator. A flywheel would regulate fluctuations in wind speed. This wind machine could be operated in significantly higher wind speeds without being shut down. Capital and operating costs would be much lower because all heavy components would be on the ground and protected by the dome. Any noise would be contained inside the dome, and it's height would be a fraction of conventional towers. This breakthrough concept needs to be thoroughly checked out by competent authorities and either proven or not. If true, it could give a dramatic economic boost to a major segment of the alternative energy industry. For further information see: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "DYMAXION HOUSE" MAR 16, 1946 BY R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER U.S.PATENT APP #_,___ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'THE DYMAXION WORLD OF BUCKMINSTER FULLER' 1973 BY R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER & ROBERT MARKS PAGES 130-31 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "EVERYTHING I KNOW", BUCKMINSTER FULLER INSTITUTE, LOS ANGELES, CA BY R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER JAN/FEB 1975 AUDIO/VIDEOTAPE SESSION #8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'INVENTIONS' BY R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER 1983 PAGES 95-126 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 17:19:41 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: jfischer Subject: Re: Domes and (tilting at) windmills Put down the flame-thrower, I was only trying to help. No need to get nasty, toss insults, or be rude. The is the Bucky list, not alt.barney.die.die.die... (lotsa stuff deleted here... suffice to say that there are many ways to skin a cat...) >I don't see how a self-starting design would get any more power out of >the wind than a clever design with assisted start, using a microcomputer, >etc. Can you explain that in excruciating detail, please? Sure, no problem. 1) It is obvious even to the casual observer that any assisted-start design must use some amount of power to turn the sail/blades/whatever. Thus, the NET power produced by a self-starting design is greater than the power produced by an assisted-start design, by definition. How much? Depends upon how often you would have a situation where the force of the wind drops enough to cause the power-generating system to cycle between "on" and "off". It would seem that on a "gusty" day, one would have a lot of cases where the motor would be used to start the assisted start machine. 2) The assisted-start approach is so "clever", that it presumes that readings of the present and past can be used to predict the future. The basic flaw in this approach is the classic error of causality. The "casualty of causality" in this case is that there will be many cases where the assisted start mechanism, no matter how well designed will "decide" to start the blades rotating, only to find that the wind has died down. At this point, the control mechanism must "decide" if it will continue to keep the blades rotating under its own efforts (in hope that the wind will come back up), or it will allow the blades to "coast", and slow down. So, we now have cases where the net assisted-start system produced NO power, but USED power in its attempt to make power. In short, the assisted-start approach will not "weather the weather". 3) The computer and such would have to be "on" 24 hours a day, so the juice taken to run the control system would further reduce the net power output. 4) The self-starting design does not have drawbacks 1-3, and is less complex, and (perhaps) lower-cost, since it requires no starting system. This why it is used in 100% of the commercial power-generating "wind farms" that exist. (I know, 'cause I belong to the trade groups, go to the conferences, etc.) Therefore, my statement stands. Power produced at the blade is not the issue, since the blades can be identical. If this is not "excruciating" enough for you, please e-mail. I refuse to participate in flame wars for the same reason that I may not be excruciating enough. >Are you telling me what to do again? Golly, WHY did you ask the question, if you already know all the answers? My suggestions and comments are nothing more than suggestions and comments. Take them as such. Perhaps you can't see your CRT clearly due to the large wooden object on your shoulder... :) >I have a local bog. Will that help? :-) Just don't try to toss me into it again! >>Moral - Gravity works forever. The wind is not so dependable. > >We were just discussing that in alt.energy.renewable, where people say >"gravity is energy." Sorry, but waterpower IS a gravity-driven process. I guess I just caught you in a bad mood... >As a practical matter, many utilities are not prepared to send checks to >customers, so they do things like bank future energy credits instead. No, they send me checks, since I have no need for purchasing power from them now, or in the future. You are correct about their basic approach, which is one of the biggest problems if one wants to make a buck from one's efforts. >In Pennsylvania, and in most states, I believe, the utilities have to >buy your power, as a matter of law (PURPA) even at the microwatt level, >but they don't have to make it easy. That's why I tried to give a warning about the cost and time required to get through the process. I assumed that most people have not gotten through the entire process, and that many may not even know about PURPA. (I write to the group as a whole when I write to the list.) >They are legally required to buy your power... > >>IF<< you meet their requirements. Good luck trying to meet them. I have done so in New Hampshire and Viginia. A record of 2 and 0 does not mean that it will be any easier for the next guy... Let's review: - Comments and suggestions were requested. - Comments and suggestions were offered by a person with successful experience in the area in question. - The response to the comments was an attempt to be insulting in the extreme. I had the following quote from Alice In Wonderland printed, framed, and posted in all my people's confrence rooms. To this day, it is standard-issue decoration in all Bell Labs facilities: "I know what you're thinking about", said Tweedledum; but it isn't so, nohow". "Contrawise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." (We now end this edition of "Pointless/Counter-pointless", sponsored by Getty Oil...) ------- If you cut here, your display may implode ----------- ______________ /\ ___________\ This writer's statements are definitive. \ \ \________ / Recent findings in physics have proven the \ \ \ / / / universe to be inherently random. If this \ \ \ / / / writer's statements conflict with reality, \ \ \/ / / this may well be due to the inherently \ \/ / / random nature of reality itself, rather James \ / / than any error on the part of the author. Fischer\/_/ jfischer@inmind.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 03:42:21 GMT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: NL Neveln= Organization: The University of Arizona Subject: why haven't domes proliferated? In a recent issue of Time magazine I read something by Stewart Brand in which he passingly mentioned that geodesic domes were one of the "dead ends" of the '60s. I also noticed an old issue of the Whole Earth Catalog that devoted a couple of pages to domes but the most recent issue does not mention them at all. I have read that they could be the solution to future housing problems and yet you don't see many geodesic houses. My question is why is this so? I have asked a number of people and nobody has given me a solid answer except for one vague comment about leaky roofs. Is that the reason? Or is it building codes or unexpected problems or faddishness or were they tainted by their "hippy" associations. I have fantasized about living in a geodesic house but I would like a reality check. Please excuse if this is all covered in your FAQ or if I have breached some sort of listserv netiquette. Ted Neveln :wq ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 23:27:04 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Re: why haven't domes proliferated? In-Reply-To: ; from "NL Neveln=" at Apr 3, 95 3:42 am NL Neveln= writes: > > In a recent issue of Time magazine I read something by Stewart > Brand in which he passingly mentioned that geodesic domes were > one of the "dead ends" of the '60s. I also noticed an old > issue of the Whole Earth Catalog that devoted a couple of pages > to domes but the most recent issue does not mention them at all. > > I have read that they could be the solution to future housing > problems and yet you don't see many geodesic houses. > > My question is why is this so? > > I have asked a number of people and nobody has given me a solid > answer except for one vague comment about leaky roofs. Is that > the reason? Or is it building codes or unexpected problems or > faddishness or were they tainted by their "hippy" associations. > > I have fantasized about living in a geodesic house but I would > like a reality check. > > Please excuse if this is all covered in your FAQ or if I have > breached some sort of listserv netiquette. > > Ted Neveln > :wq > .- > Commercial and industrial domes have been successful, but dome homes haven't caught on because they were not portable and self contained, as Fuller intended. But they probably will catch on in the near future as all the various components are almost in place. Various supporting technologies (transportation, communication, etc) are rapidly maturing. I wouldn't be surprised to see factories mass-producing dome homes by the year 2000 or so. I expect to see it happen first in asia (China?). Where the need is greatest and the vested interests the weakest. -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 05:57:25 EDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Elias Tabello Subject: Re: A high-performance, cost-effective, solar-heated greenhouse In-Reply-To: <9503301950.AA01901@agora.carleton.ca>; from "Nick Pine" at Mar 30, 95 4:21 am Nick Pine writes: > > But, these greenhouses also use a lot of energy in the wintertime. Even though > they only cost about a dollar a square foot, it might take $3/ft^2/year to > heat them. Roger Williams mentions that a standard commercial greenhouse like > his 30' x 208' hydroponic tomato greenhouse in New Bruswick, Canada, would > usually require about 12,000 gallons of oil to heat, in that 9,000 degree-day > climate. He was able to reduce the oil consumption of his greenhouse to less > than 4,000 gallons a year, by various means, including the use of better > insulation and solar heat :-) > > What can be done to make commercial greenhouses more solar-heated? > > According to Roger's estimate, a 30 x 96' greenhouse, with a double poly > inflated cover, would need about 3600 Btu/hour/degree F to stay warm inside in > the winter, with no sun, or about 86.4K Btu/degree day. So in the Philadelphia > area, a 96' x 30' greenhouse would need a daily heat input of about The difference between the Solviva greenhouse and most others is that its warmth is not maintained by thousands of gallons of fuel oil or gas, or dozens of cords of firewood. In fact, it uses no heating fuel whatsoever... From the GROWING EDGE Volume 5 #3 New Moon Publishing 1800.88.6785(US only) 503.757.8477 Anna Edey has pioneered the Solviva greenhouse. It is a very simple system which can be explained organically rather than technically. Adjacent to the greenhouse you have a chicken coup (rabbits work well too, but chickens lay eggs). Chickens generate heat (8 btus/hr/pound), Carbon Dioxide and ammonia. Air in the chicken room is pumped with a small fan into a perforated pipe with is buried in porous gravel beneath the soil in which the plants grow. The heated air rises through the soil bed, where nitrogen fixating edible flowers catch the ammonia, leaving the heated, Carbon dioxide rich air to fill the greenhouse. etabello@chat.carleton.ca ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 10:07:58 -0500 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Robert Domaingue Subject: Re: Domes and windmills In-Reply-To: <199504011649.KAA24545@grunt.ksu.ksu.edu> On Sat, 1 Apr 1995, Jim Frye wrote: > In any event, it also occurs to me that a totally *new* design for a > dome mounted windmill might be in order. The airflow around the dome is > certainly intriguing---though as I understand it, it's pretty local. > That is, you would actually find higher windspeeds closer to the dome > than you would say, 15 or 20 feet, *above* the dome (depending of course > on the size of the dome). Ummm....some sort of *horizontal* mill? A > *curved* arrangement about the top third of the dome? A...uhh, uhhh, > duhhh...'ya got me but it's something to think about . Never > thought about it before---but it does seem a shame to waste all that > nice, *channeled* wind-power! > Yes I think you should consider integrating the wind mill into the design of the dome. This was one of Fuller's original ideas. Some kind of collecting device would direct the air currents into a horizontal mill which is built into the dome. Robert Domaingue Kansas State University ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 08:47:25 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: BUCKY CD Back on May 3, 1994, Blaine D'Amico mentioned that Ed applewhite had succeeded in interesting the Voyager Co. in publishing an "expanded book" (multimedia) on Fuller and Synergetics. Anyone have more recent info on what's happening with this project? Details on what will be in the CD, and when it might be available? Who is actually working on the project, etc, etc? -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 11:23:38 -0600 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Chuck Stoffregen Subject: Geodesic Dreams I have been interested in building a dome since I first read "Domebook 2" in 1977, I was in awe. I read many of the books listed in "The Whole Earth Catalog" and bought every dome related publication that I found. I educated myself in construction techniques, bought a radial arm saw and was going to build it. Then my wife said "over my dead body!" At first I thought, "I'll sure miss her." But then I realized that I love her and the kids a bit more than a dome (but not by much). I have continued reading, studying, designing, dreaming, and building models. I even dream, many times, that I have been living in my dome home, it has become so familiar. I have decided to share the layout and construction of this dome. The foundation will be an "All Weather Wood" pressure treated 15-gon, half built in a hillside. The sidewalls of the basement will have 8 inches of fiberglass insulation, finished in sheet rock. The floor will be built on a bed of crushed rock, to allow proper drainage. Two inches of Dow Styrofoam will lay on top of the rock, with three-quarter inch plywood on top of the foam boards. All of the utilities will be housed in the basement. A large foundation (approx. 12 ft. by 12 ft.) will be poured to support the central fireplace/heat storage facility. A steel-reinforced concrete central cylinder will contain a generator, pumps, furnace and a large volume of water, all used to provide heat to the dome. The garage will be attached to the Southern side of the foundation, with integrated solar collectors built instead of conventional roofing. The dome itself will be a three/quarter sphere, with a double shell of two-by-four construction and a 1 ft. insulated (blown-in cellulose) area between the shells. On the Southern side, a large triangle of glass will admit much solar energy, as well as give a wonderful view. The 1 ft. distance between the panes of glass will be blown full with white foam beads (Steve Baer, Zomeworks Beadwall=81) when the sun isn't shining. This could be done automatically or manually, one or more smaller triangles at a time to follow the path of the sun. The outside will be waferboard covered with a white elastometric, paint-on covering. I will use a curved ladder, attached to a central mast, to construct, paint and maintain the structure. I would like to use tongue and groove car siding, but will probably use waferboard because of cost. The sun will be focused upon a central black concrete fireplace, with a wing on either side, almost dividing the floor space in half. The Southern half will be the great room, with three tiers stepping up to the large window expanse. Each tier will be 3 ft., much like seating in an ampatheater. Attached above the fireplace will be the big screen TV. The Captain's chair will occupy the middle of the top tier, the computer and the controls for the house will be accessed directly from this location (as well as from a few other locations). A spiral staircase will be situated on the West side of the dome, the main entry and closet behind it, as you look, seated in the Captains's chair. On the other side of the entryway closet, is the main floor full bath. Adjacent to the bathroom and directly behind the huge fireplace/solar heat store, is the kitchen. A gas range and grill is built into the back-side of the fireplace. A small portable island cabinet with a cutting board top occupies the center, while the refrigerator, preparation area, sink, preparation area, and breakfast bar with pass through to the dining area occupy the Northern side of the first floor. The dining room, on the Eastern side, has an 8 ft. patio door that opens to an 8 ft. deck that surrounds the perimeter of the dome. The second floor takes up three-fourths of the area above the first floor. A balcony stretches the width of the upper level. A large master bedroom takes up most of the center of second level and is flanked by two smaller bedrooms. Two bathrooms take up a rectangle in between the balcony and the master bedroom, a 6 ft. walkway acts as a conduit from the spiral staircase on the west to the Eastern bedroom. A hot tub is above the bathrooms and is open to the rest of the dome; perfect for stargazing through the skylight or checking out the view through the Southern windows. Heating the dome will be accomplished by solar energy entering through the large expanse of windows and being absorbed by the black concrete fireplace. The fireplace, itself, may be functional, but only for ascetics, not heat. In the basement, the furnace can heat the water within the concrete mass or heat though ductwork (for quick temperature changes. The beads could be blown in response to a simple thermostat or a more complex computer controller. The blower is sure to be noisy and fast or slow and quiet, so it would probably be best controlled by a digital algorithm, to prevent constant blowing. I figure a large central vacuuming system should work well to blow the beads and serve double duty as a vacuum cleaning system by taking it off line and diverting the pipes/hoses. A primary or secondary generator may be necessary, depending on availability of electricity. A gas or diesel generator wastes much latent heat, I would capture this by running the exhaust pipe through the water in the central solar storage reservoir, then vent outside. Well, this is where my head has been for the last 18 years. Wow, has it been that long? Chuck Stoffregen Computer Teacher Madison Area Technical College cas1276@madison.tec.wi.us ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 10:11:54 +0000 Reply-To: richard@henderr.demon.co.uk Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Richard Henderson Subject: Dymaxion Artifacts what follows is a list of Dymaxion[tm] Artifacts currently available from the Buckminster Fuller Institute at 2040 Alameda Padre Serra, Suite 224, Santa Barbara, Ca. 93103. They have a nice catalog available which also lists prices and descriptions of the items listed below, and 'A Fuller Listing: Annotated References for Educators' which lists further resources. (You can also email them at bfi@aol.com) BOOKS/JOURNALS Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking Bucky for Beginners A Fuller Explanation Synergetics Dictionary 50 Years of Design Science Revolution and the World Game 4D Timelock Collectors' Edition Catalog Critical Path Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth No More Second Hand God Education Automation Buckminster Fuller: An Autobiographical Monologue/Scenario Tetrascroll Earth, Inc. Grunch of Giants Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects of Humanity Buckminster Fuller Reader Ideas and Integrities Nine Chains to the Moon And It Came to Pass - Not to Stay Intuition Synergetica Journal Vol.1 Trimtab Bulletin VIDEO TAPES World of Buckminster Fuller The Dymaxion[tm] Laboratory: What the Individual Can Do The Dymaxion[tm] Laboratory: Experiment in Individual Initiative with Buckminster Fuller Modeling Universe Ecological Design: Inventing the Future AUDIO TAPES Everything I Know Around the Universe in 90 Minutes Buckminster Fuller: The 50 Year Experiment DYMAXION[tm] INFORMATION PACKETS Introduction to Buckminster Fuller Dymaxion[tm] Map Synergetics Geodesic Domes Tensegrity DYMAXION[tm] MAP Products Raleigh Edition Dymaxion[tm] Map Dymaxion[tm] Air-Ocean World Dymaxion[tm] Sky-Ocean Globe Dymaxion[tm] World Puzzle by Pacific Puzzle Global Recall Macintosh Software Dymaxion[tm] Map Postcards Dymaxion[tm] Map Greeting Cards Global Awareness Unfolding T-shirts MODEL KITS One Piece Carbon-60 Sphere by A.G.S. Products Buckyball Carbon-60 Molecule Model by Mondo Tronics Tensegritoy by Tensegrity Systems Tensegritoy Extender Kits Vector Flexor by Da Mert Company 1 2 3 4 Sphere Kit by AGS Products Geodesic Dome Kit Hoberman Sphere Octabug from Design Science Toys Synergy Ball from Design Science Toys Roger's Connection from Design Science Toys OTHER 1995 Centennial Calendar Tensegrity T-shirt Subscriptions to the Fuller Information Exchange (FIX) Electonic BBS FIX Tutorial FIX User Manual catalog (c)Buckminster Fuller Institute 1993,94 The word Dymaxion and the Dymaxion Map design are trademarks of the Buckminster Fuller Institute. -- Richard (not affiliated with the Buckminster Fuller Institute in any way) *-----http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/hpp?GoatBoy.html-----* "I heard a knockin', it was Steven Stills he said 'Would you like to buy some pills?' oh, oh, the damage done..." ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 12:58:28 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Gary Lawrence Murphy Subject: Re: BUCKY CD In-Reply-To: <199504031655.AA22592@charon.osc.on.ca> (message from Joe Moore on Mon, 3 Apr 1995 08:47:25 PDT) > "JSM" == Joe Moore writes: JSM> Back on May 3, 1994, Blaine D'Amico mentioned that Ed applewhite JSM> had succeeded in interesting the Voyager Co. in publishing an JSM> "expanded book" (multimedia) on Fuller and Synergetics. Anyone JSM> have more recent info on what's happening with this project? You could ask Voyager directly: white@3sixty.voyagerco.com (George White) Gary Lawrence Murphy -------------------------------- garym@osc.on.ca Sr.Scientist, Technology ------ http://www.osc.on.ca/people/Gary.html Research/Exhibit Planning --------------- voice: (416) 429-4100 x2215 Ontario Science Centre ------- 770 Don Mills Road, North York M3C 1T3 -------------------------------------- nothing surpasses the ordinary ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 18:35:29 GMT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: "Dirk W. Howard" Organization: Novell, Inc. Subject: Re: why haven't domes proliferated? In article <3lnqqt$191e@news.ccit.arizona.edu> neveln@GAS.UUG.Arizona.EDU (NL Neveln=) writes: >From: neveln@GAS.UUG.Arizona.EDU (NL Neveln=) >Subject: why haven't domes proliferated? >Date: 3 Apr 1995 03:42:21 GMT >In a recent issue of Time magazine I read something by Stewart >Brand in which he passingly mentioned that geodesic domes were >one of the "dead ends" of the '60s. I also noticed an old >issue of the Whole Earth Catalog that devoted a couple of pages >to domes but the most recent issue does not mention them at all. > >I have read that they could be the solution to future housing >problems and yet you don't see many geodesic houses. > >My question is why is this so? [stuff deleted...] I believe that there are several reasons why dome homes have not caught on. One of the reasons is that the main stream home buyer look at a dome home and consider it "weird" and wonder why anyone would want such a " strange" looking home. They never get to the point of looking at the good points. A second reason stems from the first. Most lenders are not willing to lend traditional amounts of financing for non-conventional housing structures. A large number of lenders are willing to finance around 90% of the cost of a new structure on a conventional design. Some even up to 95%. On non- conventional structures with owner/builder construction you might only be able to get 70% to 75%. On a non-conventional with a state licensed contractor, you can get up to 85% financing. These lending levels cause the cost of the money needed for a dome home much more expensive than traditional homes. There are some lenders that are much more open to non traditional construction methods. These lenders are more willing to lend to the traditional levels. You will be best served by taking in engineering drawings as well as references to your contractor when you begin looking for financing. A third reason for the slow adoption of dome homes is the perceived resale value of the home. Since the dome home is a non-traditional structure, it is viewed as a novelty in the home market. This could make it easy to show, but tough to sell. I think that it will take a critical mass of the numbers of dome homes in a region or communitee for them to "catch on" and be more accepted. Once that happens, they will be more likely to be built for the average home buyer and not just for the non-traditionally consious buyer. I think that we will begin to reach that critical mass when you might see articles published on decorating ideas for dome homes in major home magazines. One this happens every 14 to 20 months, I will feel that we are on our way. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Dirk W. Howard | Batteries not included. Void where prohibited. | | dhoward@novell.com | Your mileage may vary. No substitutions allowed.| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 13:03:00 PST Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: "TEMPLE, RUTH" Subject: Re: Geodesic Dreams Hmm, Chuck, it's an interesting design, especially the hot tub, but I guess I'd have to concur with your wife. It sure sounds like a bachelor pad, with the living areas mapped out to the convenience of a single user, not multiple users, as a family. How much floor space is there on the different levels? I like the idea of the stepped-down living-room. Tell more about the bead-wall: a series of windows that fill and empty across the day? Are there enough beads (access to add more I spose) to have fewer windows and more insulation in winter, and less for more open windows on late summer afternoons? Being able to change the window patterns sounds like a lot of fun Thanks for sharing your dream-dome. Are there others out there? actuals? ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 13:55:04 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: MISSION EARTH (fwd) John McLeod writes: > From sparc02.cc.ncsu.edu!listserv.ncsu.edu!mission-earth Mon Apr 3 09:29:41 1 995 > Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 12:32:06 -0400 > Posted-Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 12:32:06 -0400 > Message-Id: > Errors-To: cwm@ccvs2.cc.ncsu.edu > Reply-To: mission-earth@listserv.ncsu.edu > Originator: mission-earth@listserv.ncsu.edu > Sender: mission-earth@listserv.ncsu.edu > Precedence: bulk > From: John McLeod > To: joemoore@cruzio.com > Subject: > X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas > X-Comment: Discussion forum on simulation to aid in world planning and surviva l > > > Forgive us if you've heard this one -- we're playing Catch-Up! > > Throughout '93 and '94 we published E-S3, the E-mail version > of "Simulation in the Service of Society", the non-technical, > newsletter-type feature of SIMULATION, the technical journal > of the Society for Computer Simulation, International. Then > there was a hiatus while we changed procedures to take advantage=20 > of this MISSION EARTH list server at North Carolina State U.,=20 > where Carl Malstrom, Director of the Computer Center, is to > thank for making the necessary arrangements. > > Now we plan to post fresh material on a monthly basis as it > appears in SIMULATION, plus excerpts from material previously > published at irregular intervals. SO, if you've heard this one, > just skip to the next item. > > John McLeod (mcleod@sdsc.edu) =20 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Lest You Wonder -- > > MISSION EARTH / MISSION TO PLANET EARTH > > As one personally concerned and deeply involved with the SCS > Activity MISSION EARTH I was disturbed when told that NASA had a > project by the same name. So I contacted NASA, who gave me the > straight word -- and then some! > > MISSION EARTH, the SCS Activity, is an effort on our part to > promote a SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL SYSTEM: SUSTAINABLE, because of our > concern for the future; GLOBAL, to counter the untenable > imbalance between regions and nations; SYSTEM, because of > inescapable interactions between all aspects of all sectors > of our society. > > MISSION TO PLANET EARTH, the concurrent NASA activity, involves > NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration), other > Federal agencies, and some foreign governments in plans to bring > about a better understanding of what is happening to our planet > on a global scale. > > With respect to size, the two efforts are like David and Goliath. > But there is another striking difference: SCS and NASA are > working toward the same end -- though with different emphasis. > > MISSION EARTH, unfunded per se but supported by SCS, is limited > to stimulating activities in support a better understanding of > global problems, in the belief that understanding is a > prerequisite for solution. This is being accomplished by > improving communications among those concerned, and by collecting > and disseminating pertinent information. > > MISSION TO PLANET EARTH, on the other hand, has vast resources.=20 > And though computer modeling and simulation will undoubtedly be > called for in the future, current concerns are primarily > related to data gathering. > > So much for the MISSION EARTH / MISSION TO PLANET EARTH > relationship. Now a further explanation of the NASA part of the > effort, excerpted from "NASA Facts" for June 1993. > =20 > - - > > Mission to Planet Earth: The "Rescoped" Earth Observing System > (EOS) > > For several years NASA, other Federal agencies and some foreign > governments have been developing plans to bring about a better > understanding of what is happening to our planet on a global > scale. A significant component of the international program is > the U.S. Global Change Research Program, a major part of which is > NASA's Mission to Planet Earth. This is a long-term program that > takes advantage of the perspective only available from space to > study the Earth as a global environmental system. By far the=8Amost signif= > icant part of that program is the Earth Observing > System, or EOS, for which the lead NASA center is the Goddard > Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The U.S. Global > Change Research Program (USGCRP) is a multi-agency research > program to understand, analyze and predict natural and human- > induced global change. > > Two budgetary cutbacks to the EOS program occurred in 1992 -- the > first from $16 billion to $11 billion for the decade ending in > FY2000, leading to a "restructured" EOS, and the second from $11 > billion to $8 billion, leading to a "rescoped" EOS. With such > reduced funding, EOS has been constrained to: > > 1. Focus the science objectives more narrowly on the most > important problem of global change -- global climate change; and > > 2. Increase the resilience and flexibility of EOS by flying > fewer instruments on multiple, smaller platforms rather than a > series of large spacecraft. > > Primary Research Areas > > Scientists from around the world have identified seven primary > research areas in which a quantitative understanding must be > developed if we are to understand Earth's climate and what effect > the human species is having on it: > > 1. Role of clouds, radiation, water vapor and precipitation; > > 2. Productivity of the oceans, their circulation and air-sea > exchange: > > 3. Sources and sinks of Greenhouse gases and their atmospheric > transformations; > > 4. Changes in land use, land cover, primary productivity and > the water cycle; =20 > > 5. Role of polar ice sheets and sea level; > > 6. Coupling of ozone chemistry with climate and the biosphere; > and > > 7. Role of volcanoes in climate change. > > The instruments in the "rescoped" EOS program address these key > scientific issues. They will fly on a series of small, medium > and intermediate-sized spacecraft, enabling them to take > advantage of a range of launch options. Spacecraft names, their > planned launch dates, launch vehicle classes and purposes are: > > 1. EOS-AMI (June 1998, intermediate class) - Characterization of > terrestrial and oceanic surfaces, clouds, aerosols and radiative > balance. > =8A2. EOS-COLOR (1998, small) - Ocean color and productivity. > > 3. EOS AERO1 (2000, small) - Atmospheric aerosols and ozone. > > 4. EOS-PM1 (2000, intermediate) - Clouds, precipitation and > radiative balance, terrestrial snow and sea ice; sea surface > temperatures; terrestrial and ocean productivity, and atmospheric > temperature and moisture.=20 > > 5. EOS-ALT1 (2002, medium) - Ocean circulation, ice sheet mass > balance and land-surface topography. > > 6. EOS-CHEM1 (2002, intermediate) - Atmospheric chemical species > and their transformations; solar radiation. > > The "small" launch vehicles will be the air-launched Pegasus, the > "medium" will be Delta II-class, and the "intermediate" will be > the Atlas IIAS-class. > > Our knowledge of the components which govern the climate system > is represented by numerical models which allow scientists to > estimate the behavior of the components and their interactions as > an integrated system. However, the accuracy and completeness of > current models are inadequate, owing primarily to the lack of > appropriate observational data. Observations from the EOS > spacecraft, and from related ground and aircraft measurements, > should provide the comprehensive data on the current state of the > environment needed to achieve a better understanding of key > processes and eventually be able to predict future changes. > > In advance of the first EOS launch, planned for 1998, the United > States and its international partners will launch a number of > free-flying satellites to make global change observations. In > addition, three major Spacelab series will be launched on the > space shuttle to study global change, and there will be > continuous, routine observations from the National Oceanic and > Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and military weather > satellites. This period of observations is known as Phase One of > the Mission to Planet Earth. > > To process, archive and distribute data from the Phase One and > EOS spacecraft, NASA is establishing an EOS Data and Information > System (EOSDIS), located at the Goddard Space Flight Center.=20 > Much of the work with the data will take place at Distributed > Active Archive Centers, or DAACs, located at major research > centers around the United States. Of the currently selected > DAACs, four are at NASA centers, two are at universities and one > is operated by the U.S. Department of Interior, U.S. Geological > Survey. > > Another is operated by the Department of Energy, Oak Ridge > National Laboratory. Data in the DAACs will be made readily > available to all researchers who study global change at the > marginal cost of filling their orders. > =8AIn particular, these data will serve as the basis for studies by > 28 EOS interdisciplinary investigation teams established by NASA > to develop a quantitative understanding of the processes which > govern the climate of the Earth and to incorporate that knowledge > into predictive models which can serve as the basis for policy > decisions.=20 > > These teams are being established at 12 U.S. universities, seven > NASA facilities and nine international research institutions.=20 > The interdisciplinary teams will work with data provided by > specialized instrument teams to develop integrated models to > simulate the Earth system so that scientists can predict its > future behavior. The knowledge gained through this process > should help policy makers make decisions based firmly on improved > scientific understanding of global change. > > - - > > Note in the foregoing excerpts how often "models" and "understanding" > are mentioned. NASA thus implies support for the SCS and your Ed's > contention that computer modeling and simulation are great tools for > understanding, and that understanding the problem is a great help on > the way to a solution -- if not a prerequisite! [JM] > > - - - > > > .- > -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 14:12:48 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: COSMOGRAPHY CONTENTS OF 'COSMOGRAPHY' BY R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER, 1992 A NOTE FROM THE ADJUVANT, KIYOSHI KUROMIYA 1. THE DAWN OF EINSTEIN'S UNIVERSE a. Introduction b. Generalized, Scientifically Verifiable Principles c. Artifacts: Application of Pure Principle (7 drawings) 2. DISCOVERIES OF THE HUMAN MIND (11 drawings) 3. EINSTEIN (3 drawings) 4. HISTORICAL UNDERPINNINGS 5. TAKING INVENTORY 6. COSMIC CONCEPTIONING a. Introduction (2 drawings) b. System (3 tables, 4 drawings) c. Omnidivergent or Covergent (8 drawings) d. Alloying (12 drawings) e. Twelve Around One (10 drawings) f. Angle (1 drawing) g. Tensegrity (5 drawings) h. Twelve Degrees of Freedom (1 drawing) i. Tensegrity Masts (2 drawings) j. Spherical Trigonometry: The Greek Sphere (2 tables, 6 drawings) k. 6 Fundamental Motions of Universe:Vectors & Degrees of Freedom (5draw) l. Inside-Outing, Involuting-Evoluting (3 drawings) m. Orbital Travel (1 drawing) n. Involution and Evolution (1 drawing) o. Precession (2 drawings) p. Unity Is Plural and at Minimum Two (13 drawings) q. Brain, Mind, and Universe (3 drawings) 7. INTEGRITY 8. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 9. INDEX -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 14:11:36 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Re: Geodesic Dreams In-Reply-To: ; from "Chuck Stoffregen" at Apr 3, 95 11:23 am We'll never know many divorces geodesics has precipitated! Don't feel bad--you have lots of company. -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 16:11:17 -0700 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Karl Erickson Subject: IRC: #geodesic replaces #bucky i would like to thank everyone who showed up at the last bucky conference. we had a great turnout. one of the things we discussed was the new channelname. as of now the weekly sunday conferences will be on #geodesic instead of #bucky. there are a few reasons for this. first, it seems the #bucky channelname has been used by others who know nothing of buckminster fuller, and second, we thought it would be nice if the channelname matched the listname. so now list geodesic has its very own channel. (there is no need for a seperate channel for the synergetics list, of course.) the weekly meetings are on Sundays at 7pm pst - 10pm est. just go to IRC and type: /join #geodesic we also discussed the BuckyBot, which Chris Fearnley and Michael Toren will be writing. a bot is simply a program that looks like an irc user. normally, when nobody is on a channel, the channel disappears. once we get the BuckyBot going, however, it will be stationed permanently on the #geodesic channel - and thus keep the channel in existance. the bot can also do a number of other interesting things. for example, we can easily program it to hand out information to curious people peeking into the channel. the command: /who #geodesic will give detailed information about the users on that channel, and will also tell people how to talk to the bot (with something like: /msg buckybot info). the bot will then tell them all about the various bucky internet pointers we've accumulated thusfar - i.e. directing them to the FAQ, the various websites, etc. the #geodesic channel can be used by any bucky fans at any time - i will frequently be on that channel when using IRC, for example, so if anyone would like to chat at any time, just go to IRC and type: /list #geodesic this command will show you the topic of the channel, and how many users are on the channel at that time. the topic i've been using is: R. Buckminster Fuller: "Dare to be naive." i've suggested to chris that we might program the BuckyBot with a handful of different topics so that it can be changed periodically. if you have any ideas on what you might want to see here, post them to the list. also, any other BuckyBot ideas that anyone might have are needed - let's make this little 'droid as useful as possible. :) -k. erixon - setebos@netcom.com ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 18:29:22 +0100 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Jim Frye Subject: Re: CRITICAL PATH In-Reply-To: On Fri, 31 Mar 1995, TEMPLE, RUTH wrote: > Informal poll: what was your first introduction to Bucky's work? > what was your reaction? Would you believe I can't precisely recall? Seems like a friend told me about him some 20-25 years ago. I was very impressed and got something of his to read---sorry, I forget which book it was. I suppose that's because his language totally put me off and I read darned little of it . Mostly, I just thought the domes were really great and didn't think much about any of his other stuff (never bothered to find out what it was---at the time I just wouldn't wade through the language). Naturally, now that a year or two has passed , I see him in a bit different light---though I *still* haven't read enough of his work to get really comfortable with his use of the language. Hope this doesn't upset your informal little 'poll' any . Regards, Jim Frye 4375 Riviera Memphis, Tn 38108 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 19:01:37 +0100 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Jim Frye Subject: Re: why haven't domes proliferated? In-Reply-To: On Mon, 3 Apr 1995, NL Neveln= wrote: > I have read that they could be the solution to future housing > problems and yet you don't see many geodesic houses. > > My question is why is this so? > > I have asked a number of people and nobody has given me a solid > answer except for one vague comment about leaky roofs. Is that > the reason? Or is it building codes or unexpected problems or > faddishness or were they tainted by their "hippy" associations. Well Ted, I suspect *all* the reasons you listed have played a part with different people at different times. In the past (and probably with a lot of future construction as well---for those who don't thoroughly understand the problem) it was nearly impossible to build a dome that didn't have leakage problems. I'm sure a *lot* of potential domes were shot down by the people who enforced building codes---not understanding domes, they were reluctant to grant the necessary variances. A third major problem is simply that they are NOT conventional construction so they end up being largely a "do-it-yourself" type of thing---'ya pretty much gotta' be yer own contractor which is scary. Construction btw, *can* be highly complex---if you don't really plan ahead well, you can find yourself having to cut material in really strange lengths, at weird angles, and all to incredibly fine tolerances. You can end up with a scrap pile about the size of the dome itself . NOW, having said all that, I must say I think the time of the domes has just about arrived! Commercial and *large* domes have been done successfully for quite some time now. I believe residential use will start gaining acceptance---though probably in other areas of the world before here in the U.S. *Good* kits, new construction techniques (especially the monolythic shell/skin coverings), and awareness of the many benefits of domes will soon prove to be just too good to ignore. Oh, I almost forgot, another drawback of domes that I haven't seen addressed much at all is that they have bad *acoustics* for living quarters. If you're planning on living in one of the things, you need to take that into account when you build---or you'll surely start thinking about it when you move in . Regards, Jim Frye 4375 Riviera Memphis, TN 38108 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 14:00:37 +0000 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: John Mac Cosham Subject: Re: CRITICAL PATH > >We all three walked left the moment feeling a bit expansive >and impressed with the intense emotional response we had to >Bucky - as a person and his work. >Anybody else have that rock-back-on-your-heels-with-amazement >and delight reaction? >Informal poll: what was your first introduction to Bucky's work? >what was your reaction? > >Ruth Temple >RuthTemple@aol.com >1889 Redwood Drive >Aptos, CA 95003 Dear Ruth: I have had a strong emotional response to Bucky's work. I find much of what he writes very uplifting and in studying Synergetics I have feelings of wonder and delight. Contemplating the patterns and shapes I see the presence of something larger then myself. I am 46 now. I first discovered Bucky when I was 22 around the time of graduation from University. I discovered synergetics at that time, too. However it has been only in the last 5 years that I have made any real progress in understanding Synergetics 1 and 2, although I have kept those books with me for up to 20 years. In fact I gave them away once. I was always excited by his writing and at the same time frustrated. In the end I just concentrated on Synergetics and model making all by lonesome. Now with the Net a new world has openned with the opportunity of talking with others about Bucky and for me Synergetics. Because in my local life there is no one to talk with about these things. cheers, swami dharmraj aka John Mac Cosham dharmraj@hedgehog.highway1.com.au "Anything man needs to do he can afford to do." R.Buckminster Fuller ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 00:48:01 -0400 Reply-To: JustWINK Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: JustWINK Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Subject: Re: Geodesic Dreams >Thanks for sharing your dream-dome. >Are there others out there? actuals? An associate of Steve Baer's has a home near Alb, NM which is like thisconcept in some ways. Steve has never been a big fan of traditional icosa-geodesics, and this dome is a rhombic enneacontahedra - two diamond faces, one edge length. It does use beadwall - I got there too late to see them work - and offers a wonderful view, I'm told. It has been lived in for a good many years, expanded at least once with an addition and is generally a very pleasant space. Big water drums form room dividers and offer thermal mass for heat storage. Wish I could remember more... Wink Charles E. Peck ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 08:15:58 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Re: why haven't domes proliferated? (fwd) Nick Consoletti writes: > From homer15.u.washington.edu!u.washington.edu!nicku Mon Apr 3 16:17:58 1995 > X-Sender: nicku@homer15.u.washington.edu > Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 16:20:26 -0700 (PDT) > From: Nick Consoletti > To: Joe Moore > Subject: Re: why haven't domes proliferated? > In-Reply-To: <9504030633.AA00845@mx4.u.washington.edu> > Message-Id: > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > Joe I have query for violinist in Eugene he is looking for the way they > made the varnishes in the old days sartaivarais (sp)? etc. he tells me > noone know what was happening at trhe workshop of the rebirth people > bucky said they had relearned their cyphers I suggest > that NASA might have some interesting ways to go do you have address > of NASA research? > .- > I don't have NASA's address but maybe someone out there does. -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 08:39:35 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Re: format X-To: chardhawk@nets.com In-Reply-To: <199504040540.AA15587@unix.nets.com>; from "chardhawk@nets.com" at Apr 3, 95 11:41 pm chardhawk@nets.com writes: > > joe- > > i can make a series of numbered LBM (format) files of the tensegrity > jitterbug animation. Do you have a program which would show the series as a > looping animation? > > richard hawkins (chardhawk@nets.com) > > .- > Richard, I don't recall reading about the "LBM" format in Amiga literature. I will have to review my files and come up with a list of formats that my hardware and software can handle. I think it would be useful if your animations were available in several formats (pc, mac, amiga, etc) at a permanent ftp site. -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 13:45:37 CST Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Tom Dosemagen Subject: Re: Geodesic Dreams Chuck, follow your dreams ( the heck with the wife ). I live in 44 foot diameter dome about 40 miles south east of Madison and my whole family ( including my wife ) thoroughly enjoy dome living. Go for it!!!! ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 16:18:57 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Nick Pine Organization: Villanova University Subject: High-Performance, Cost-Effective, Passive Solar Workshop Earth Day, April 22, 8:30 AM-8:30 PM Connelly Center Villanova University There will be an all-day workshop on passive solar heating in the Bryn Mawr Room of the Connelly Center at Villanova University on Earth Day, Saturday, April 22, beginning at 10 AM. The workshop will consist of a morning session, with a basic tutorial on the fundamentals and simple mathematics of passive solar heating, and a practical afternoon session, with open discussions and designs for individual participants. The Bryn Mawr room and the cafeteria in the Connelly Center will be open until 10 PM on Saturday, which will allow the workshop to continue into the evening, if necessary. Local engineer Nick Pine and math teacher Clarissa Coffey will describe a new, simple, passive solar heating technique for houses, offices, schools, greenhouses and foam/concrete domes. The technique may be used for new houses as well as for retrofits to existing houses: a low-thermal-mass sunspace heats the house in average solar weather, and a higher-temperature, high-thermal-mass "solar closet"/sauna inside the sunspace heats the house during cloudy weather. Nick believes that this inexpensive technique can provide close to 100% of the year-round space heating and water heating requirements of a house in Pennsylvania. The workshop will include a voluminous paper handout, a tutorial on the simple mathematics of heatflow, and some examples of useful solar materials and tools, including computer simulations. There will be a slide show with pictures of many local buildings, with some specific suggestions for solar improvements for each, including estimated costs of materials and numerical benefits. There will also be some specific suggestions for further practical solar research. The workshop fee is $50 for families, $35 for non-students, and $25 for students. Reservations must be made by April 15. A reduction in fee of $5 will be made for payments received by April 15, and scholarships are available. Email reservations are preferred, to nick@ece.vill.edu. Nick may also be reached by phone at (610) 489-0545, by fax at (610) 489-7057 or by mail at 821 Collegeville Road, Collegeville, PA, 19426. Participants may find it useful to bring pictures or drawings of their houses to the workshop, with approximate measurements, and an indication of compass direction. This workshop is sponsored by the Villanova Environmental Group, as well as the Villanova department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Tentative workshop agenda: 8:30-9:00 Registration 9:00-10:00 "Ohm's Law for Heatflow" 10:00-11:00 Thermal storage 11:00-12:00 Sunspaces and solar closets 12:00-1:00 Lunch break 1:00-2:00 Slide presentation 2:00-3:00 Materials and tools 3:00-5:00 Open discussions and individual designs 5:00-6:00 Dinner break 6:00-8:30 Continue discussions, designs, etc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please register me for the High-Performance, Cost-Effective, Passive Solar House Heating Workshop on April 22. Name: _________________________________________________ Address: ______________________________________________ Phone number: _________________________________________ Email address, if any: ________________________________ Present heating system: _______________________________ South-facing wall area: _______________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 17:47:59 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Gregg Wilson Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Subject: help for a beginner Greetings all. I have _Utopia or Oblivion_ and _Bucky_ by Hugh Kenner. What are the best books to read to learn the geodesic math, and in what order should I read them. Any suggestions? ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 18:05:00 PST Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: "TEMPLE, RUTH" Subject: Re: help for a beginner Gregg - two quick suggestions: get the to the FAQ and pull down the log of this discussion list for the last month or two - Joe Moore's extensive bibliography and TOC listing by way of summarizing each book are a great way to see which works talk to your particular level of desire for the math, applications to architecture, physics, etc. jsut re-readingmy first line; the FAQ is referenced in the info for this list and elsewhere in the logs Glomming the logs is the second idea; referenced in the welcome to this list message you've undoubtedly gotten by now. Happy searching, happy learning! ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 22:49:01 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Gary Lawrence Murphy Subject: Re: format In-Reply-To: <199504042047.AA00540@charon.osc.on.ca> (message from Joe Moore on Tue, 4 Apr 1995 08:39:35 PDT) > "JM" == Joe Moore writes: JM> chardhawk@nets.com writes: > i can make a series of numbered LBM (format) files of the tensegrity > jitterbug animation. Do you have a program which would show the >> series as a looping animation? JM> I don't recall reading about the "LBM" format in Amiga literature. Wow, LBM --- that brings back memories :) I can run frames together into a QuickTime movie, but I would need a more portable format like JPEG or preferably TIFF to do it justice. Can you ftp the frames to www.osc.on.ca? (Stringing them into QT takes less than a dozen keystrokes on an Indy) JPEG is widely supported and a converter should be easy to find (check out the Amiga hotlink in my homepage). Unfortunately, JPEG is lossy whereas TIFF is more obscure (for Amiga & DOS) but stays true to the original. QT viewers are available for Mac, DOS, Windows and IRIX, although I still need one for my Linux machines. Gary Lawrence Murphy -------------------------------- garym@osc.on.ca Sr.Scientist, Technology ------ http://www.osc.on.ca/people/Gary.html Research/Exhibit Planning --------------- voice: (416) 429-4100 x2215 Ontario Science Centre ------- 770 Don Mills Road, North York M3C 1T3 -------------------------------------- nothing surpasses the ordinary ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 22:59:18 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Gary Lawrence Murphy Subject: Re: BUCKY CD (fwd) Buckminster Fuller project? X-cc: rlo@netcom.com My apologies if this has already been posted ... here's the response from Voyager and I note that it doesn't say 'no' although I wonder if it might say "any takers?" To: white@3sixty.voyagerco.com, joemoore@cruzio.com, garym@osc.on.ca, edapple@aol.com Date: Tue, 4 Apr 95 20:40 EST From: ashton@3sixty.voyagerco.com (Ashton Applewhite) Subject: Re: BUCKY CD (fwd) Buckminster Fuller project? Cc: bob@3sixty.voyagerco.com, turell@3sixty.voyagerco.com To my knowledge this project exists in the dream stage only. Bucky is a multimedia kind of guy if there ever was one, but the project needs an author willing to put in the several years it would take. Not to mention some big bucks. Gary Lawrence Murphy -------------------------------- garym@osc.on.ca Sr.Scientist, Technology ------ http://www.osc.on.ca/people/Gary.html Research/Exhibit Planning --------------- voice: (416) 429-4100 x2215 Ontario Science Centre ------- 770 Don Mills Road, North York M3C 1T3 -------------------------------------- nothing surpasses the ordinary ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 23:54:35 -400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Michael R Swanson Subject: Re: help for a beginner In-Reply-To: <9504050038.AA21598@ns.gamewood.net> On Tue, 4 Apr 1995, Gregg Wilson wrote: > Greetings all. I have _Utopia or Oblivion_ and _Bucky_ by Hugh > Kenner. What are the best books to read to learn the geodesic math, and > in what order should I read them. Any suggestions? Try The Critical Path - it is a good summary of his life and work - plus it is very readable. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 12:27:45 -0300 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Rodrigo de Almeida Siqueira Subject: Re: Geodesic Dreams X-To: Tom Dosemagen In-Reply-To: <9504042240.AA22719@farofa.ime.usp.br> Hello Tom (and other Dome livers), It would be great if you have some photos of the Dome to post here, or better, in a World Wide Web page with pictures of the Domes where people live. Does anybody of this list who is living in a Dome have photos that could be digitalized and put here ? Thank you ! Rodrigo Siqueira. e-mail: rodrigo@lsi.usp.br URL: http://www.lsi.usp.br/usp/rod/rod.html ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 08:45:37 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Synergetics: Centenary Events (fwd) X-cc: Mission Earth Kirby Urner writes: > From desiree.teleport.com!teleport.com!synergetics-l-owner Tue Apr 4 23:25:48 1995 > Message-Id: <199504050623.XAA12894@desiree.teleport.com> > X-Sender: pdx4d@mail.teleport.com > X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 23:23:18 -0700 > To: synergetics-l@teleport.com > From: Kirby Urner > Subject: Synergetics: Centenary Events > Sender: owner-synergetics-l@teleport.com > Precedence: list > Reply-To: synergetics-l@teleport.com > > Excerpt from a memo by Allegra Fuller Snyder (Bucky's daughter): > RE: Upcoming centenary events... > > Feel free to build around this thread if you have information or > plans for additional events. > > Kirby > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Preliminary summery of Centenary events known as of 3/23/95 > > Cooper Union, New York > lecture series > April 11th- Design=The Bottom Line, The Concept Car, The Muscle Car, and the > World Car: Automobile Design in the Twenty-first Century-(announcement > features Chassis of Dymaxion Car No. 1) > > May 8th-The Dymaxion Dwelling Machine, R. Buckminster Fuller's Dream House > > May 15th - Unfolding Structures with Chuck Hoberman > > July 12th - Jay Baldwin on Bucky > > April 21st - MIT Centenary Forum on "the Global Impact of Bucky" This meeting > being organized at MIT by Stanford Anderson, Prof. Dept. of Architecture, > Massachusetts Institute of Technology > > April 22nd and 23rd, Campuan Meeting "Re-evaluating Bucky's Global Impact". a > meeting to be held at the Cambridge Hyatt Regency, and the Carpenter Center > at Harvard. 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M+[ZH!/87@\LOKQL$_;PMI<&>=8/XO*I812B.[YIT@S'@U8UIG23+<%E:[M2Y > ML4[5+*O&.<`=KK0FNMHAX_.A.N7@*&Y9-]=$5:]E:*0^:70]69K(KX=JAZM& > M[1.C4`Q/7JK7,0KLQC^.+>-H37)U3227.89KHJ1FF:NWFFOX0.$ M"R/;R72:UPWJR)M6$[T%%WEC$)8?2W2T>_@L'B_8\9U+7?\HY*)6"N?%W > M7'-VU>@UHVAM6I;K&K]!5)B34&F0\$VBE#3,['._CFBN@9G;M(N!8/X.3VYN > ML9>B-8>7L5\'8Y8*^P[AFB.VY81>RPGM%!XW;C&V8R9!CC`% MC>T:LQ37C00U(T^(9"0)RXS4QA3^5Z#?A!LO!>ZZ'\0DBC+.NK'2=X]%9A'H > M(UU]-R)0,B$918J,"S>F;.5+)_+TH>(>;NC-^"&C(C$)RJ2)5F^%>-01DY9E > M;IU:F=C1S\L4:><^Y_,@A[4MYK MU^,(:5E8JE]T"2_C]$+W-N@#^=MWIU;$PIP\PR4[.]I[*(4=U51LP-@H6MXZ > M2#FOF:^Q-]SF\0X']46L]VA]R@,S7EKV;V+E0J'LB^-Y#M > M'+4+=>,8(NF1_\3_RW^R^ET(^<.?=W\LJ6^9K[*_=\E1NJRC[;/Y#5NOCY:N > M6B-R1+[[QTL+1EI^^=E_)*%O*6F9Z):Y.=9*ILHWD\*U0'RY(/1Z0>A?#$IA > MO\W:1/J'IW>.LLY>0I%ASIAM$G%!SM27I(K+#!&^)!O&PSC77/(-A5]AG"XP > MOJ& MOJCX/X[C5V4`UQZY14%J"SF!,@7EXZD8.6^7U39((]L[![163&<[_..?UPO_ > MS"\D">!M//["G1T%>+QXW^]_`5!+`0(4`!0````(`!-OA1Y2%%>#R!8``(`A > M```'````````````(`````````!42E $```````` > ` > end > sum -r/size 14808/8218 section (from "begin" to "end") > sum -r/size 41838/5944 entire input file > > > -- > __gerald_de_jong__rotterdam__ "shapes in my dreams" > .- > -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 08:54:27 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: DOME-ENCLOSED WINDMILL X-To: Mission Earth I was wondering if anyone in the computer simulation community might be interested in checking out Fuller's proposed dome-enclosed windmill design: GEODESIC WINDMILLS Windmills as presently designed are expensive to build and maintain, unable to operate in high winds, and environmentally offensive (noisy, too tall, etc.). In 1975 R. Buckminster Fuller suggested a design that would seem to solve all of the above problems. A wind turbine could be enclosed inside a geodesic dome. A ventilator mounted near the top of the dome would cause part or all of it to rotate as the wind direction changed. The low pressure area near the exit of the ventilator would draw air in from the bottom of the dome and out through the top, thereby turning the turbine blades and shaft attached to the generator. A flywheel would regulate fluctuations in wind speed. This wind machine could be operated in significantly higher wind speeds without being shut down. Capital and operating costs would be much lower because all heavy components would be on the ground and protected by the dome. Any noise would be contained inside the dome, and it's height would be a fraction of conventional towers. This breakthrough concept needs to be thoroughly checked out by competent authorities and either proven or not. If true, it could give a dramatic economic boost to a major segment of the alternative energy industry. For further information see: "Dymaxion House" Mar 16, 1946 by R. Buckminster Fuller U.S.patent app #_,_?_ 'The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller' 1973 by R. Buckminster Fuller & Robert Marks pages 130-31 "Everything I Know", Buckminster Fuller Institute, Santa Barbara, Calif. by R. Buckminster Fuller Jan/Feb 1975 Audio/Videotape session #8 'Inventions' by R. Buckminster Fuller 1983 pages 95-126 -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 23:23:18 -0700 Reply-To: synergetics-l@teleport.com Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Kirby Urner Subject: Synergetics: Centenary Events X-To: synergetics-l@teleport.com Excerpt from a memo by Allegra Fuller Snyder (Bucky's daughter): RE: Upcoming centenary events... Feel free to build around this thread if you have information or plans for additional events. Kirby -------------------------------------------------------------- Preliminary summery of Centenary events known as of 3/23/95 Cooper Union, New York lecture series April 11th- Design=The Bottom Line, The Concept Car, The Muscle Car, and the World Car: Automobile Design in the Twenty-first Century-(announcement features Chassis of Dymaxion Car No. 1) May 8th-The Dymaxion Dwelling Machine, R. Buckminster Fuller's Dream House May 15th - Unfolding Structures with Chuck Hoberman July 12th - Jay Baldwin on Bucky April 21st - MIT Centenary Forum on "the Global Impact of Bucky" This meeting being organized at MIT by Stanford Anderson, Prof. Dept. of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology April 22nd and 23rd, Campuan Meeting "Re-evaluating Bucky's Global Impact". a meeting to be held at the Cambridge Hyatt Regency, and the Carpenter Center at Harvard. Co-convenor's Lim Chong Keat, Shirley Sharkey, Shoji Sadeo July 12th plus Bucky's 100th- a Syntergation approach, Carbondale, Illinois, developed by Bill Perk July 14-16 - "Rediscovering the GENIus in us all" Sponsored by GENI, national University, San Diego Natural History Museum, Shapery Enterprises November 1995 - Bucky Centennial Event at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, in conjunction with the opening of the following exhibit November 1995 through January 1996 - Contemporary Developments in Design Science, two sequential exhibitions at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and Pratt Manhattan, curator Haresh Lalvani, Professor of Architecture, Pratt Institute, Design Scientist-in-residence, Cathedral of St. John the Divine Spring exhibition in the Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Books to be published during the year Bucky's 100s editor, Chuck Hoberman, publisher, Princeton University Press Bucky Works by Jay Baldwin, John Wiley and Sons, publisher ------------------------------------------------------------ Kirby Urner & Dawn Wicca "All realities are virtual" -- KU Email: pdx4d@teleport.com Web: "THE UNIVERSE MAY BE A MYSTERY, BUT ITS NO SECRET!" ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 22:20:01 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Netnews: geodesic buckminster (fwd) Net News Filter writes: > From woodstock.stanford.edu!db.stanford.edu!netnews Wed Apr 5 15:30:28 1995 > Date: Wed, 5 Apr 95 15:30:37 -0700 > From: Net News Filter > Message-Id: <9504052230.AA10970@Woodstock.Stanford.EDU> > To: joemoore@cruzio.com > Subject: Netnews: geodesic buckminster > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Subscription 1: geodesic buckminster > > Article: misc.health.diabetes.16120 > Message-ID: <3lsbkd$1jo@celebrian.otago.ac.nz> > From: peter@sanger.otago.ac.nz (Peter Stockwell) > Subject: Re: WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS IDEA? > Score: 100 > First 20 lines: > Mark LeQuire (epicurus@netcom.com) wrote: > > Charles Coughran (ccoughran@ucsd.edu) wrote: > > : bvanantwerp@BIX.com (bvanantwerp on BIX) wrote: > > : > Are you talking about human beta cells or pig or some other > [...] > > : By all means, upload whatever informantion you have available. > > : Charles Coughran > > I had heard about using a carbon 'buckyball' (I believe that was the > > term) to encapsulate the beta cells. The 'buckyball' is a carbon > > construction that would be neutral to the immune system and allow insulin > > to pass out, but no white cells to pass in. I read about it in > > Scientific American, but haven't seen anything about it since. > > -- > BuckyBalls are C(60) - Buckminster-Fullerine, named after the inventor of > the geodesic dome. Given the dimensions of a sphere of 60 carbon atoms > arranged in a geodesic-dome configuration, I would doubt that there would > be sufficent volume for more than a few molecules of insulin, let alone > a whole living, metabolising beta cell. > Then there's the problem of getting the insulin out through the carbon > "mesh" of the thing. > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > For help information, send email NetNews Filtering Server > with word 'help' in message body netnews@db.stanford.edu > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > .- > -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 06:39:33 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Bruce Lieberman Subject: Re: Geodesic Dreams Anyone have a good pic and possible specs for the Spaceship Earth Sphere at Epcot? Who built that thing anyway, it's gorgeous. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 08:03:58 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: geoman Subject: A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO CONSTRUCTING THE UNIVERSE >From : Michael S. Schneider Hi. Last Sunday night on the IRC #bucky (#geodesic) channel Karl Erickson (setebos) mentioned that he saw my recently published book (A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO CONSTRUCTING THE UNIVERSE -- HarperCollins Publ.) and Joe Moore suggested that I post its TOC. :) Essentially, the book is an expression of Pythagorean mathematical philosophy, but updated 25 centuries. It contains 10 chapters, each concerned with that chapter's number, and the geometry associated with it. These numbers are the seeds from which all subsequent numbers and shapes derive, and the ancients saw them as more than mere quantities, but representing eternal principles which manifest as the visible forms of nature. They are also found worldwide in the transcultural cymbolism of mythology, religion, superstition, folk sayings, fairy tales, board games and elsewhere. The book includes many examples showing how ancient artists, craftspeople and architects recognized and applied nature's numbers, shapes and their relationships to guide their own designs, Egypt through the European Renaissance. The book has 500 illustrations and 350 quotations in the page's wide margin from artists, philosophers, mathematicians, artists, poets and others. A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO CONSTRUCTING THE UNIVERSE The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Science and Art A Voyage from 1 to 10 PREFACE: GEOMETRY AND THE QUEST FOR REALITY by John Michell "The mathematical rules of the universe are visible to men in the form of beauty." -- John Michell INTRODUCTION "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." -- H.B. Adams (How I came to research and write this, coming from an early distaste for school-math paperwork memorization tedium.) CH 1 -- MONAD: WHOLLY ONE "You cannot conceive the many without the one .... The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality." -- Plato "Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round." -- Black Elk (Point, circle, cylinder, sphere: functional symbols of equality and perfection.) CH 2 -- DYAD: IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO "The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are are born through strife." -- Heraclitus (Vesica Piscis, two intersecting circles which touch each others' center, as the geometric birth portal from which shapes emerge; the line, duality, opposites, polarity, tension in geometry, science, nature, art, etc. CH 3 -- TRIAD: THREE-PART HARMONY "Surface is composed of triangles." -- Plato (Birth of the triangle, 3-corner cracks, triads, trinities, two opposites united and transcended by a "neutral" thrid, from atomic structure to US government structure, origin of the word TRIal, etc.) CH 4 -- TETRAD: MOTHER SUBSTANCE "The perfection of mathematical beauty is such ... that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent." -- D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (Birth of tetrahedron, volume, structure, the Platonic volumes in geometry and nature, fourfold symbolism in myth, religion, sayings ("fair & square" -- know why?) CH 5 -- PENTAD: REGENERATION "Where plants have five-fold patterns, a consideration of their souls is in place." -- Johannes Kepler (Pentagonal symmetry, symbol of life, excellence, authority and human-ness. It illustrates the principle of self-regeneration in geometry and nature; the dodecahedron, Fibonacci numbers, Golden Section made easy, how to build Golden Section Calipers (Renaissance artists' tool for harmonious composition), Golden Rectangles, the log spiral (nature's most widespread shape from embryos to galaxies, the path energy takes when left alone), vortices and vortex street patterns in water, weather, plants, etc.) CH 6 -- HEXAD: STRUCTURE-FUNCTION-ORDER (Hexagonal symmetry as traditional measure of space & time, from beehives and chickenwire to calendars and societal structures.) CH 7 -- HEPTAD: ENCHANTING VIRGIN (The curious properties and appearances of seven-ness...) CH 8 -- OCTAD: PERIODIC RENEWAL (Eightfold patterns from musical octaves to octapi (?), spiders, Islamic tiling patterns, baptismal fonts, chess, lunar symbolism, etc.) CH 9 -- ENNEAD: THE HORIZON (Triple trinity, ultimate, from labyrinth design to pagodas, enneagram, "the whole 9 yards".) CH 10 -- BEYOND NUMBER (10 as a form of 1, unity, Tetraktys, cathedral design, etc.) EPILOGUE: NOW THAT YOU'VE CONSTRUCTED THE UNIVERSE... If you see the book or have comments or questions, e-mail me (Michael S. Schneider) at geoman@panix.com "THE UNIVERSE MAY BE A MYSTERY, BUT IT'S NO SECRET." ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 16:11:10 -0700 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Karl Erickson Subject: buckyball in Discover magazine the latest issue of Discover magazine, dated May 1995, has a short buckyball article in the "Breakthroughs" section called "Buckyball and Chain", page 19. a color illustration shows a buckyball attached to a polymer resin and a molecule called a diene. apparently, this chemistry allows buckyballs to be easily seperated from unwanted by-products of fullerene synthesis. it looks like buckyballs are well on their way to becoming cheap and readily available. -k. erixon - setebos@netcom.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 16:47:07 -0700 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Karl Erickson Subject: IRC @ #geodesic @ 7pm pst 4/9 this is the weekly reminder that the buckminster fuller conference will be held on irc on sunday, 4/9, at 7pm pst / 10pm est. i'm mailing this reminder a bit earlier this time in order to defeat lag that may prevent some people from seeing it on time. NOTE: the conference will be on the #geodesic channel, not on the #bucky channel as it was before. the #bucky channel is now obsolete. to join us, just go to irc and type: /join #geodesic hope to see you there! -k. erixon - setebos@netcom.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 17:41:47 +0000 Reply-To: richard@henderr.demon.co.uk Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Richard Henderson Subject: FWD: Whole Systems I discovered this while rummaging thru the Fringeware archives - looks promising, Our Man gets a namecheck.. Richard --Forwarded message follows:-------------------------------------- Sent from: magdalen@well.sf.ca.us (Tiffany Lee Brown) quick, kids, before the poles shift - subscribe to a new listserv: The WHOLESYS-L Whole Systems list is for the discussion of: - the principles of whole systems, - abundance economies, - the creation of a new civilization, - new global paradigms - whole system metaphysics - networking and synergy This might be a list for you if you would consider reading books like: "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth" by Buckminster Fuller "Earth Ascending" by Jose Arguelles "Paradigms" by Joel Arthur Barker "The Age of the Network" by Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps "The Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot "Finite and Infinite Games" by James P. Carse "The Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield "The Mind Map Book" by Tony Buzan "The Future of Mankind" by Tara Singh The list is for the exploration of whole system principles, particularly in regards to economic, ecological, sociological and metaphysical transformation of our civilization. The intention is to create and discuss a positive vision for the future of planet Earth as a whole system. This is an unmoderated public list. No flaming will be allowed, but frank discussions are welcome. It is pre-supposed that the participants support the general idea of creating a better future and are able to tolerate diverse viewpoints. You subscribe to wholesys-l by sending a message to listserv@netcom.com with the message text: subscribe wholesys-l All messages about subscribing, unsubscribing or any other requests must go to the listserv address. You can send a message with 'help' in the message body if you don't know what you can do. Messages meant to be distributed to all the members of the list should be sent to wholesys-l@netcom.com Owner: Flemming Funch ffunch@netcom.com http://www.protree.com/worldtrans/ *-----http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/hpp?GoatBoy.html-----* "Everybody got boners about the technology used in the Gulf War, and I guess it was kind of amazing watching a missile fly down an air vent. But couldn't we feasibly use that same technology to shoot food at hungry people?" - Bill Hicks ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 18:02:51 +0000 Reply-To: richard@henderr.demon.co.uk Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Richard Henderson Subject: FWD: Operating Software for Spaceship Earth more stuff from the Fringeware list: Richard --Forwarded message follows:--------------------------------------- Sent from: hacker@telegraph.com (Harold Hedd) Hi I'm Harold Hedd, Anyone know a great deal about Bucky Fuller? I'm creating software,nearly completed called Operating Software For Spaceship Earth. IT consists of 4 modules. 1) The hypertext and expanded version of the The Operating Manual For Space ship Earth. It runs in Windows v.3.1. Some feautures spiffy graphics, you can read more than one chapter at a time on the screen. That is the way it has been designed. Comes with built in editor and a link to any modem you choose. 2) Client dbManager. Electronic address book that allows you to store friends names and phone numbers and mug shots. Very easy to use. Runs in Windows v3.1 3) The dbase Diary. Electronic diary that allows you store your daily entries plus it allows you to store graphic files to. 4) Brain Storm-The IDea Generator. Helps you generate ideas. I'm debating whether to put this program in the software. Basically I'd like to know if there is market for my type of software. If anyone knows,leave me some e-mail. Harold Hedd *-----http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/hpp?GoatBoy.html-----* "Everybody got boners about the technology used in the Gulf War, and I guess it was kind of amazing watching a missile fly down an air vent. But couldn't we feasibly use that same technology to shoot food at hungry people?" - Bill Hicks ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 13:00:21 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: ccurtis@HALCYON.COM Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. Subject: Re: why haven't domes proliferated? jimfrye@WSP1.WSPICE.COM> writes: > > Well Ted, I suspect *all* the reasons you listed have played a part > with different people at different times. In the past (and probably with > a lot of future construction as well---for those who don't thoroughly > understand the problem) it was nearly impossible to build a dome that > didn't have leakage problems. I have built two domes in the last couple of years. I am about to start one this summer. If properly constructed a dome will NOT leak. I am not a builder by trade, I work on computers for a living. I hear often that domes leak, if they do it's because the builders are doing something wrong. A dome is just like any other roof, it just has a lot more bends. I have Never had a problem with leaking and I don't think it will be a problem in the future. There is a brialliant old guy in StPaul MN. wh runs a company called energy structures, he taught me how to roof a dome. Fell free to give him a call, Joe has been building domes since the mid 60s, and none of his domes have ever leaked (acording to him). One reason domes have a reputation for leaking is because for so many years people tried all sorts of "new" methods of roofing, plastic or metal panels, fiberglass coatings, recycled stuff, all of these turned out to not work very well. One (out of business) dome company even created a dome with pre roofed panels that were just calked together. Needless to say these domes leaked like a strainer. Monteray, it turned out did not even test the design before they sold more that 250 of that model. They went down like a ton of bricks and owing buyers more than $500,000. Most of the dome companys around now have weathered the storm and put out a good product. What is most important is that extra care is taken in the roofing at the joints ( all @#%$ of them), it's a pain but it can work. > I'm sure a *lot* of potential domes were > shot down by the people who enforced building codes---not understanding > domes, they were reluctant to grant the necessary variances. Still very true to this day > Construction btw, > *can* be highly complex---if you don't really plan ahead well, you can > find yourself having to cut material in really strange lengths, at weird > angles, and all to incredibly fine tolerances. You can end up with a > scrap pile about the size of the dome itself . Very true, the myth that they use less materials is not quite true. The domes I built would have used less material had it not been for all the scrap left over. I liked the scrap, we build our first dome during the winter of 93 in Maryland. During the day on the weekends it would reach the scorching temp of 30%. All that scrap burned well in our burn barrell and kept us warm. As for the cuts, in some ways domes are easier to build. On my first dome I spent a month cutting EVERY part. Most items I build jigs for so it was like an assembly line. After ALL the parts were cut they were stacked in order and after the foundation was done, the frame took only one easy beer drinking day to bolt together. The skin went on the next day. It took two days to build the dome and weeks of part time work to cover it. BUT IT DOES NOT LEAK!! Building my first dome was one of the great moments in my life (this guy must be pretty boring). As for the enterior, not so easy. I wont even go into this, it will break my mood. I just thought I'd put in my two cents worth. Only my opinon! If anyone would like to talk more about building dome please feel free to email me directly. BTW I don't do domes for a business and I don't get dome commissions and I have NO hidden agendas when it comes to domes, I just like them! ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 16:24:04 -0700 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Karl Erickson Subject: TOC: _Connections_ by Jay Kappraff Table of Contents of _Connections: The Geometric Bridge between Art and Science_ by Jay Kappraff, Dept. of Mathemathics, New Jersey Institute of Technology McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1991 ------------------------- Preface Acknowledgements Credits Chapter 1. Proportion in Architecture 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Myth and Number 1.3 Proportion and Number 1.4 The Structure of Ancient Musical Scales 1.5 The Musical Scale in Architecture 1.6 Systems of Proportion Based on [2nd root of 2], [theta], and [phi] 1.7 The Golden Mean and Its Application to the Modulor of Le Corbusier 1.8 An Ancient System of Roman Proportion Appendix 1.A Chapter 2. Similarity 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Similarity 2.3 Families of Similar Figures 2.4 Self-Similarity of the Right Triangle 2.5 Line Choppers 2.6 A Circle Chopper 2.7 Construction of the Square Root of a Given Length 2.8 Archimedes Spiral 2.9 Logarithmic Spiral 2.10 Growth and Similarity in Nature 2.11 Growth and Similarity in Geometry 2.12 Infinite Self-Similar Curves 2.13 On Growth and Form Appendix 2.A Appendix 2.B Chapter 3. The Golden Mean 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Fibonacci Series 3.3 Some Tiling Properties of [phi] 3.4 The Golden Rectangle and the Golden Section 3.5 The Golden Mean Triangle 3.6 The Pentagon and Decagon 3.7 The Golden Mean and Patterns of Plant Growth 3.8 The Music of Bartok: A System Both Open and Closed Chapter 4. Graphs 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Graphs 4.3 Maps 4.4 Maps and Graphs on a Sphere 4.5 Connectivity of Graphs and Maps 4.6 Combinatorial Properties 4.7 Regular Maps 4.8 New Graphs from Old Ones 4.9 Duality 4.10 Planar and Nonplanar Graphs 4.11 Maps and Graphs on Other Surfaces 4.12 The Torus and the Mobius Strip 4.13 Magic Squares 4.14 Map Coloring 4.15 Regular Maps on a Torus 4.16 Szilassi and Csaszar Maps 4.17 Floor Plans 4.18 Bracing Structures 4.19 Eulerian Paths 4.20 Hamiltonian Paths Chapter 5. Tilings with Polygons 5.1 Introductions 5.2 Polygons 5.3 Regular Tilings of the Plane 5.4 Duality 5.5 Semiregular Tilings 5.6 Symmetry 5.7 Duality of Semiregular Tilings 5.8 The Module of a Semiregular Tiling 5.9 Other Tilings with Regular Polygons 5.10 Transformations of Regular Tiling 5.11 Nonperiodic Tilings 5.12 Origami Patterns 5.13 Islamic Art Chapter 6. Two-Dimensional Networks and Lattices 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Planar Soap Films 6.3 Random Cellular Networks 6.4 Rural Market Networks 6.5 Dirichlet Domains 6.6 Spider Webs, Dirichlet Domains, and Rigidity 6.7 Lattices 6.8 Pattern Generation with Lattices 6.9 Dirichlet Domains of Lattices and Their Relation to Plant Growth 6.10 Quasicrystals and Penrose Tiles Appendix 6.A Projective Geometry Chapter 7. Polyhedra: Platonic Solids 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The Platonic Solids 7.3 The Platonic Solids as Regular Polyhedra 7.4 Maps of Regular Polyhedra on a Circumscribed Sphere 7.5 Maps of the Regular Polyhedra on the Plane--Schlegel Diagrams 7.6 Duality 7.7 Combinatorial Properties 7.8 Rigidity 7.9 The Angular Deficit 7.10 From Maps to Polyhedra--The Dihedral Angle 7.11 Space-Filling Properties 7.12 Juxtapositions 7.13 Symmetry 7.14 Star Polyhedra Appendix 7.A Duals Appendix 7.B A Proof of Descartes Formula Chapter 8. Transformation of the Platonic Solids I 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Intermediate Polyhedra 8.3 Interpenetrating Duals Revisited 8.4 The Rhombic Dodecahedron 8.5 Embeddings Based on Symmetry 8.6 Designs Based on Symmetry Breaking 8.7 Relation to the Golden Mean 8.8 Tensegrities 8.9 The Tetrahedron--Methane Molecule and Soap Bubble 8.10 Tetrahedron as the Atom of Structure 8.11 Packing of Spheres 8.12 Geodesic Domes and Viruses Chapter 9. Transformation of the Platonic Solids II 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Archimedean Solids 9.3 Truncation 9.4 The Truncated Octahedron 9.5 The Snub Figures 9.6 Archimedean Duals 9.7 Maps on a Sphere 9.8 Combinatorial Properties 9.9 Symmetry Revisited 9.10 Prisms and Antiprisms Chapter 10. Polyhedra: Space Filling 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Close Packing of Spheres 10.3 The Shape of Space 10.4 Packing Ratios 10.5 Three-Dimensional Lattices 10.6 Dirichlet Domains 10.7 Crystal Structure 10.8 Networks 10.9 Infinite Regular Surfaces 10.10 The Diamond and Graphite Nets 10.11 Soap Froths 10.12 A Unified Look at Nets Related to Cubic Lattices 10.13 Zonohedra 10.14 Golden Isozonohedra Chapter 11. Isometries and Mirrors 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Mirros 11.3 Sets 11.4 Mappings 11.5 Translations 11.6 Rotations 11.7 Reflections 11.8 Glide Reflections 11.9 Proper and Improper Transformations 11.10 Isometries and Mirrors 11.11 Some Reflection Exercises 11.12 Some Additional Relations Involving Isometries Chapter 12. Symmetry of the Plane 12.1 Introduction 12.2 The Mathematics of Symmetry 12.3 Symmetry Groups 12.4 Subsets of a Group 12.5 Kaleidoscope Groups 12.6 Pattern Generation and the Kaleidoscope 12.7 A Colored Kaleidoscope Symmetry 12.8 Some Other Examples of Pattern Generation 12.9 Pattern Generation in Hyperbolic Geometry 12.10 Line Symmetry 12.11 The Two-Dimensional Ornamental Symmetry Groups 12.12 Symmetry and Design 12.13 A Fundamental Postulate 12.14 Interaction of Two Rotocenters Implies a Third 12.15 Nets 12.16 Enantiomorphy 12.17 Aesthetics of Wallpaper Patterns 12.18 Symmetry of Islamic Tilings 12.19 Symmetry of Similarity Epilogue References Index ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 23:59:52 GMT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: World Game Institute Organization: Drexel University Subject: WGI Workshops Schedule WORLD GAME INSTITUTE WORKSHOPS SCHEDULE 1995 Schedule as of April 5, 1995 We invite you to visit an upcoming event. Contact us for more information. World Game Institute Phone: (215) 387-0220 3215 Race Street Fax: (215) 387-3009 Philadelphia, PA 19104-2597 Email: xtm00002@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu World Wide Web: http://www.pacificrim.net/~wginwrep/WorldGame/WGI.html * Environmental Workshop ** Diversity Workshop Apr. 4 Greer School, Tyrone, PA Apr. 5 Sterling High School, Summerdale, NJ** Apr. 7 Jonathan Dayton HS, Springfield, NJ Apr. 11 North Arlington HS, N. Arlington, NJ* Apr. 12 Valley Middle School, Oakland, NJ Apr. 13 Burlington Co. Inst. of Tech.,W. Hampton, NJ** Apr. 17 Eco-Action, Penn State Univ., State Coll., PA* Apr. 18 Leonia High School, Leonia, NJ* Apr. 20 Morris Hills High School, Rockaway, NJ Apr. 20-22 Iowa Dept. of Education, Des Moines, IA* Apr. 21 Iowa Dept. of Nat'l Resources, Des Moines, IA Apr. 24 Meadow Park Middle School, Beaverton, OR Apr. 25 Motorola, Schaumburg, IL Apr. 25 Bainbridge HS, Bainbridge Island, WA Apr. 26 Southern Regional HS, Manahawkin, NJ Apr. 27 Museum of Disc. & Sci., Ft. Lauderdale, FL* Apr. 28 Vernon Township School, Vernon, NJ* May 3 West Morris Central HS, Chester, NJ* May 4 Columbia School, Berkeley Heights, NJ May 4 Scottsdale Leadership, Scottsdale, AZ May 6 Pittsburgh Children's Museum, Pittsburgh, PA May 8 Motorola, Germany May 9 Edmonds Comm. College, Edmonds, WA May 9 Hubbard Middle School, Plainfield, NJ May 10 Maxson Middle School, Plainfield, NJ May 10 Passaic Co. Votech HS, Wayne, NJ May 11 Mountlake Terrace HS, Mountlake Terr., WA May 11 John A. Carusi Junior School, Cherry Hill, NJ May 12 West Orange High School, West Orange, NJ** May 13 Highline Comm. College, Des Moines, WA May 16 Plainfield High School, Plainfield, NJ** May 18,19 Roxbury High School, Succasunna, NJ** May 24 Montgomery High School, Skillman, NJ May 25 Edison Intermediate School, Westfield, NJ May 25,26 Paramus HS, Paramus, NJ** June 8 Columbia School, Berkeley Heights, NJ June 10 Discovery Program, U. of PA, Philadelphia, PA June 13 Motorola, Schaumburg, IL June 27 Youth Envir. Summit, Loveland, CO* July 3 Motorola, Singapore July 10 U of DE Governor's School, Newark, DE July 11 Motorola, Schaumburg, IL July 14-16 GENI, San Diego, CA July 24 U. of N. Carolina-Greensboro, Greensboro, NC July 27 Junior League of Indianapolis, Indy, IN* Aug. 6 Principals' Center Summer Institute, NJ Aug. 8 Motorola, Latin America Aug. 13-15 Presby. Peacemaking Program,Hempstead, NY** Sept. 5 Motorola, Singapore Sept. 12 Motorola, Schaumburg, IL Sept. 23 Nat'l Lutheran Leader. Conf, Minneapolis, MN Sept. 29 Pittsburgh Children's Museum, Pittsburgh, PA Oct. 10 Motorola, Schaumburg, IL Oct. 13,14 Boonsboro Ruritan Club, Lynchburg, VA Oct. 17 IODA Conference, Eilat, Israel Oct. 18 Anacortes High School, Anacortes, WA Oct. 31 Motorola, Taiwan Nov. 16 Leadership Kentucky, Elizabethtown, KY ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 17:50:12 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Re: DOME NOTES X-To: pacerpilot@aol.com In-Reply-To: <9504072151.AA17502@newsbf02.news.aol.com>; from "pacerpilot@aol.com" at Apr 7, 95 5:51 pm pacerpilot@aol.com writes: > > Do you have a copy of DOME NOTES for sale? I am new to the goedesics > group and I don't understand the posting of the table of contents. I am, > however, interested in learning to build a dome, and would be interested > in purchasing a copy of DOME NOTES. > .- > I just have my personal copy. The book is probably out of print, but you should be able to borrow a copy through your local library inter-library loan service. I've used that route to get books from all over North America. Check the Bucky FAQ for a list of dome books. Joe -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 18:03:57 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: EDUCATION IN NEXT CENTURY (fwd) COSMOS279@aol.com writes: > From mail06.mail.aol.com!aol.com!cosmos279 Fri Apr 7 16:37:46 1995 > Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 19:35:30 -0400 > From: COSMOS279@aol.com > Message-Id: <950407193528_75645266@aol.com> > To: Schlomoka@aol.com, sgasunas@moose.uvm.edu, CPatter833@aol.com, > STEPHANSKYM@a1.mec.mass.edu, EdL923@aol.com, Cerone@delphi.com, > davisr@meol.mass.edu, sutter@ccsnet.com, BobHilt@eskimo.com, > morrison@gibbs.oit.unc.edu, Joemoore@cruzio.com, ffunch@netcom.com, > Jhanson@ilha > Cc: bob.gebelein@coat.com, NCN@netcom.com > Subject: EDUCATION IN NEXT CENTURY > > This is a mailing of COSMOS - "The Universe is our campus." > > I am doing research on the high school of the 21st century. I am sending out > a few ideas to see if you agree with me. Please send responses to > COSMOS279@aol.com-otherwise there will be needless duplication. No CC:'s to > the people on this list. I am trying to manage this "strand" (I think thats > what you call it)myself. > > Many of these ideas were suggested by R.B.Fuller in 1962! > > 1. High schools as buildings will gradually become obsolete. Most students > will learn at home or at work projects. > > 2. Students will have a combination "generalist-home room teacher-guidance > counselor-core curriculum teacher-mentor" who will service approximately 24 > students at any one time. Specialist teachers will be reduced in favor of > more generalists. > > 3. Students will do work independently and send assignments to mentor by > E-mail or the equivalent. > > 4. One day a week all 24 students will gather for synthallogical discussions > and problem solving - cooperative activities. > > 5. Mentors will visit the students homes to help with individual problems. > > 6. All students will have a "universal communication device" i.e. combination > cellular phone, computer, television. No phome lines required. May be taken > anywhere. They will be rented and updated at regular intervals. Internet > access will be universal. > > > > Jim Bonaparte > Teacher > Society of Independent Learners- and founder-HARVEST Magazine-editor- > COSMOS coordinator > 279 Summer Street > Brockton, MA 02402-4165 > COSMOS279@aol.com > (508)-584-3752 > .- > -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 23:31:00 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: COSMIC FISHING CONTENTS OF 'COSMIC FISHING' BY E. J. APPLEWHITE, 1977 INTRODUCTION BY HUGH KENNER 1. ARGUMENT OF THE BOOK 2. NO FINAL DRAFT (WITH SAMPLE ITINERARY) 3. STARTING FROM SCRATCH 4. A PECULIAR ACCURACY 5. WRITING OUT LOUD (2 SAMPLE DRAFT MANUSCRIPT PAGES) 6. BUCKMINSTER ABBEY 7. COSMIC FISHING ON THE GRAND BANKS & IN THE DELAWARE RIVER 8. SPONTANEOUS DEPUTIES 9. HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM CARBONDALE TO THIRD AVE. (2 GALLEYS) 10. BURIED ALIVE 11. A GAME OF COSMIC SOLITARE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (NO INDEX) -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 09:48:25 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Centennary tribute to R.B.Fuller (fwd) COSMOS279@aol.com writes: > From mail02.mail.aol.com!aol.com!cosmos279 Sat Apr 8 04:20:15 1995 > Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 07:20:40 -0400 > From: COSMOS279@aol.com > Message-Id: <950408072039_76084797@aol.com> > To: Schlomoka@aol.com, sgasunas@moose.uvm.edu, CPatter833@aol.com, > STEPHANSKYM@a1.mec.mass.edu, EdL923@aol.com, Cerone@delphi.com, > davisr@meol.mass.edu, sutter@ccsnet.com, BobHilt@eskimo.com, > morrison@gibbs.oit.unc.edu, Joemoore@cruzio.com, ffunch@netcom.com > Cc: bob.gebelein@coat.com, newciv@netcom.com, Jhanson@ilhawaii, BFI@aol.com > Subject: Centennary tribute to R.B.Fuller > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > "Home is where the heart is; = > > school is where the mind is; = > > work is where the need is." > > "The mind is a remarkable thing; = > > it can make a hell out of heaven > or a heaven out of hell." (Menninger) > > "COSMOS279@aol.com is the Internet Address of > the "College*" of Synthallogical Management & = > > Omnicomprehensive Studies - a division of SOIL- > The Society of Independent Learners. = > > > *My definition of "College" is anywhere(physical or > metaphysical) where two or more people gather > to learn from each other. > > COSMOS is an experimental educational system inspired > by the educational philosophy of R. Buckminster Fuller > who predicted home learning as the wave of the future. > > The following article from the April Issus of HARVEST Magazine is > a parable based on the life of R. Buckminster Fuller. I wrote in = > > commemoration of his centennary which will be celebrated on July 12. = > > As in all allegories some parts have been fictionalized for simplicity. > > TRIMTAB > In the village, where once stood the tree of humanity, a group of = > > people gathered to hear a wise man who spoke of a land where everyone is = > > rich and no one has to compete for the right to live. Most of them did no= > t = > > believe him but a few were curious. = > > The wise man said: = > > "Let us build a ship and gather up enough people to settle in this = > > new land. All we will have to take with us is a computer with a cellular = > > internet connection and enough provisions to last about a year. = > > "You fool," they would all shout, "everyone knows that you can=92t = > > make it!- Even if you do no one would be willing to give up all the = > > luxuries that they have here.- Don=92t you know that UTOPIA means = > > nowhere. -You can=92t change human nature. -Why fix something if it = > > ain=92t broken- sounds like communism to me-all you ever do is dream up = > > all these inventions and never capitalize on them.-Didn=92t you get kicke= > d = > > out of school?- If you sold the rights to that car you designed you=92d b= > e = > > able to live like a king right here and all of us could have jobs buildin= > g = > > them. Your so selfish and your wife and kids haven=92t had a new outfit t= > o = > > wear in over two years-You=92re a loser and always will be-a land where = > > everyone is rich!-Ha! Ha! -You=92re dreaming buddy-that won=92t happen = > > for a thousand years." = > > The wise man felt dejected and walked to the great river. He = > > almost killed himself by jumping in, but at the last minute he heard a vo= > ice = > > that said: > "Home is where the heart is, school is where the mind is, and = > > work is where the need is! You have been assigned your Universal mission.= > = > > If you kill yourself it will take another 500 years for Me to accomplish = > My = > > goal. You are My hands, My feet, and you have free access to My mind=92s = > > contents if you are willing to tune in to the right frequency! I am what = > > is-nothing more and nothing less. I am in everything and everything is in= > = > > Me. = > > The wise man ran away and told no one what he had heard for = > > two years. He read everything he could find to make sure that the mission= > = > > would be successful. He meditated and envisioned what the world would be = > > like in 70 years and went about inventing all the things that man would = > > need in that new civilization. = > > After two years he went out into the world. He travelled by air. He = > > did not try to sell his ideas to anyone but if anyone was willing to list= > en > he = > > told them in no uncertain terms what was on his mind. He made up words = > > and phrases because traditional language could not describe his ideas. = > > As he got older he became a favorite speaker, poet, inventor, = > > architect, de facto ambassador, and city planner. The things the man did = > > were too numerous to mention in such a short story. Eventually he became = > > a maker of spheres of all types and sizes. He loved to just sit back and = > look > > at the stars marvelling at the fact that he was observing non-simultaneou= > s = > > events! He really knew how to totally enjoy life in a way than most had = > > never dreamed possible. His greatest joy came from sailing. He often = > > invited his friends to sail with him. > Then one day his wife died. Strangely, he died a few hours later = > > leaving those around him stunned. = > > "How could he leave us now just when we were ready to take him up on his = > > idea of travelling to that new land?" > Very soon after, his family and friends gathered up his papers and = > > gave them to the world. They were worth more than their weight in gold. = > > They were the instruction manual for the third millennium-and every = > > page was filled with riches beyond compare-a guide to the FULLER life! > > > Jim Bonaparte > Teacher > Society of Independent Learners- and founder-HARVEST Magazine-editor- > COSMOS coordinator > 279 Summer Street > Brockton, MA 02402-4165 > COSMOS279@aol.com > (508)-584-3752 > > .- > -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 09:49:17 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Re: Synergetics: lurkers (fwd) Timothy P. Gardner writes: > From desiree.teleport.com!teleport.com!synergetics-l-owner Sat Apr 8 04:56:01 1995 > Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 07:55:19 -0400 > Message-Id: <199504081155.HAA15573@freenet.buffalo.edu> > From: "Timothy P. Gardner" > To: synergetics-l@teleport.com > Subject: Re: Synergetics: lurkers > Sender: owner-synergetics-l@teleport.com > Precedence: list > Reply-To: synergetics-l@teleport.com > > > > more than anything fuller has sublimely influenced ALL areas of my life... > e.g. how i approach problem solving, my response to politicians etc. when they > say things are a certain way when i KNOW them to be lying(or perhaps mis/dis- > informed). > > favorite essay is Omni-directional Halo... > > tim > .- > -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 09:51:42 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Re: Synergetics: lurkers (fwd) John Mac Cosham writes: > From desiree.teleport.com!teleport.com!synergetics-l-owner Sat Apr 8 08:49:34 1995 > Message-Id: <9504081410.AA01713@highway1.com.au> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 22:07:38 +0000 > To: synergetics-l@teleport.com > From: John Mac Cosham > Subject: Re: Synergetics: lurkers > Sender: owner-synergetics-l@teleport.com > Precedence: list > Reply-To: synergetics-l@teleport.com > > >hi folks! > > > >it's too quiet. i want to hear from these people: > > > > >-- > >__gerald_de_jong__rotterdam__ "shapes in my dreams" > > Okey, here I am. I have been reading the list for a few weeks now. I am > relatively new to the computer and internet. I have explored some of the > pages talked about here and on the geodesic list. > > I still need more time to check out those pages and the models. > > On a personal level I have made some models from steel using welding. I > have always been interested in trying to make a good cheap octet truss > system for modelling or to use around the house. The best I have been able > to come up with is a hub modelled on a spherical ocatahedron and small flat > bar for the struts. This has worked out fairly well except that it is slow > and tedious to make. It has allowed me to see the position of the rhombic > dodecahedron in the octet truss. > > Time is a big factor in studying synergetics. I have to spend a lot of > time working to make money and also for maintenence of home and vehicle. I > also have to cook and shop. Getting this computer set up took some time, > too. > > I wanted to write synergetics 2 down on disc. I got one of the main > chapters onto disc minus the diagrams. Typing it word by word helped me > understand it. > > Why is synergetics 2 out of print. It seems as important as synergetics 1. > > It would be ideal if there was a program with synergetics 1 and 2 written > out and cross linked with hypertext. > > Amy Edmundsons book was a great help. The Synergetics Dictionary was very > very expensive and it is not that great a help although I like it. > > I think these computer programs are going to be a big help for people to > understand synergetics. > > cheers until later, > > swami dharmraj > aka John Mac Cosham > dharmraj@hedgehog.highway1.com.au > > "Anything man needs to do he can afford to do." R.Buckminster Fuller > > > .- > -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 03:59:46 -0400 Reply-To: Spy 222 Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Spy 222 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Subject: Re: CRITICAL PATH Dear Ruth, I discovered Buckminster Fuller on the day that it was announced that he had died. I was 16 years old. National Public Radio announced his death and had done a short piece on him. I had seen his book <> in a bookstore and I went down and bought it. For me discovering Buckminster Fuller was similar to a religious experience. All my life I had been taught by secular humanists in the public schools, and I was told or rather made to believe that no "real" scientist believed in God. Many of Buckminster Fuller's statements about Darwin and his theory of Evolution struck my core beliefs though I had never had a religious education. I became rather obsessed with the man and his works. He seemed to be a "messiah". I studied his works for about eight years, reading nearly all of his published books, and began to develop my own theories about the "universe". I remained outside of the traditional school system (as I was already outside of it at 16) I educated myself. Unfortunately, it seems to me now, that ascribing to Fuller's philosophy was rather self-limiting. I returned to college and began studying languages, politics, the classics, and the Bible. And in doing so I discovered that the world of knowledge is so utterly vast that is almost a shame that Fuller was so self centered that he pulled people in, through his works, and caused them to remain there. His logic seems to show that everyone else is wrong and that contact with "well meaning" (but, nevertheless wrong) people would be a contradiction to God's will. This is a tragedy. Buckminster Fuller did many great and amazing things, but he and his works are not a world in themselves. They can be catagorized as a subject that exists in relation to other subjects, but they do not stand alone. One cannot expect to operate in the "world of Fuller" when the world outside of it is greater. Yours truly, Ted Campbell spy222@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 19:29:35 -0400 Reply-To: JustWINK Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: JustWINK Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Subject: Re: Geodesic Dreams >...the Spaceship Earth Sphere at Epcot? >Who built that thing anyway, it's gorgeous. I have seen some material on it in one of those coffee-table books on architecture. It is certainly beautiful but, unlike the Expo dome, it is pretty much all facade, if I remember correctly. I think it contains a theme ride, not a single large space. I'll bet that the elegant shell is supported by a very conventional post and beam steel structure. Wink Charles E. Peck ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 00:35:07 -0400 Reply-To: TS Editor Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: TS Editor Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Subject: Buckminster Fuller stuff wanted for article Have any personal experiences with or pleasant thoughts about Buckminster Fuller or his work? The Truth Seeker is soliciting material for an article honoring Buckminster Fuller. Please email TSMarti@AOL.com, or smail to Truth Seeker Company, 16935 W. Bernardo Drive, Suite 103, San Diego, California 92127, or call 619-676-0430 or fax to 619-676-0433. Bill Holmes, TSEditor@AOL.com, 72010,3003 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 21:21:57 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: & IT CAME TO PASS CONTENTS OF 'AND IT CAME TO PASS--NOT TO STAY' BY R.BUCKMINSTER FULLER, 1976 1. HOW LITTLE I KNOW 2. COMPLEXION 1976 3. WHAT I AM TRYING TO DO 4. A DEFINITION OF EVOLUTION (BOTH PHYSICAL & METAPHYSICAL) 5. "AND IT CAME TO PASS" (NOT TO STAY) 6. SOFT REVOLUTION 7. ETHICS (NO INDEX) -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 01:36:02 +0100 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Jim Frye Subject: Re: why haven't domes proliferated? In-Reply-To: On Fri, 7 Apr 1995 ccurtis@HALCYON.COM wrote: > jimfrye@WSP1.WSPICE.COM> writes: > > > > > a lot of future construction as well---for those who don't thoroughly > > understand the problem) it was nearly impossible to build a dome that > > didn't have leakage problems. > > this summer. If properly constructed a dome will NOT leak. I am not a > builder by trade, I work on computers for a living. I hear often that domes > leak, if they do it's because the builders are doing something wrong. A dome > is just like any other roof, it just has a lot more bends. I have Never had a > problem with leaking and I don't think it will be a problem in the future. Now that is good news indeed! I was responding on the basis of what I have read---and nearly all of that has included at least one mention of leakage problems with domes. The bit about all the new materials and methods being the primary *cause* of this type of thing was new to me but makes a lot of sense now that I think of it. > > roofing at the joints ( all @#%$ of them), it's a pain but it can work. > I suppose this is why it makes sense to me--->tapeing the joints, using rubber strips, fiberglass, all that sort of thing sounds like an effort to avoid the tedious work you speak of: simply using conventional methods carefully on *every* joint! Tedious I'm sure it is---but I'll be a lot of the "new, great ideas" simply didn't hold up the the shifting and expansion/contraction cycles, hence leaked like crazy after a while. > > shot down by the people who enforced building codes---not understanding > > domes, they were reluctant to grant the necessary variances. > > Still very true to this day And probably will for some time to come---the construction industry tends to be a bit on the conservative side :). > > scrap pile about the size of the dome itself . > > Very true, the myth that they use less materials is not quite true. The dome s Ummmm....I suppose this is a matter of definition: I think the dome itself *uses* a lot less material, it's just that you've got to *buy* so much more than you actually put into the dome. I'm afraid I *won't* value the scrap as a source of warmth very much in the summer down here in Memphis in the summer . > As for the cuts, in some ways domes are easier to build. On my first dome I You are correct again---after all, cuts are cuts and once you've got the jig set up, it's just a mechanical process. Cut all one length, set 'em aside (*marked* properly of course) and go on to the next. > After ALL the parts were cut they were stacked in order and > after the foundation was done, the frame took only one easy beer drinking day > to bolt together. The skin went on the next day. It took two days > to build the dome and weeks of part time work to cover it. BUT IT DOES > NOT LEAK!! Great! And I do congratulate you sir on completing a fine project. I'm sure others (as well as myself) might enjoy a few posts on your experiences, not just in building and furnishing but in living in the domes. Building my first dome was one of the great moments in my life > (this guy must be pretty boring). Not at all. I'm not planning to put up a dome to live in---just a backyard workshop/storage area and completion of *that* little project will be I'm sure, if not exactly one of the *great* moments in my life, at least it will be one of the better ones! Building a *home* on one's own, regardless of construction, *must* be a great moment in *anyone's* life---even if that person *were* a professional contractor! > As for the enterior, not so easy. I wont even go into this, it will break my > mood. Ummm....well, I'm not so concerned about interiors now, not with just just a large open space in mind for the immediate future. You might save someone else some trouble though if you could bring yourself to share some of your tribulations. Besides, you might get some feedback that could help when/if you build another. > I just thought I'd put in my two cents worth. Only my opinon! More than an opinion I'd say---> you've related a bit of your *experience* and that is really worth something! Thanks a lot. > If anyone would like to talk more about building dome please feel free to emai l > me directly. BTW I don't do domes for a business and I don't get dome > commissions and I have NO hidden agendas when it comes to domes, I just like > them! I think most of the people who come here like 'em as well. They DO make a lot of sense even if they can be perplexing at times. Regards, Jim Frye 4375 Riviera Memphis, TN 38108 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 16:29:15 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Re: Synergetics: lurkers (fwd) SteveW7562@aol.com writes: > From desiree.teleport.com!teleport.com!synergetics-l-owner Sun Apr 9 15:01:47 1995 > From: SteveW7562@aol.com > Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 17:59:37 -0400 > Message-Id: <950409175937_77347478@aol.com> > To: synergetics-l@teleport.com > Subject: Re: Synergetics: lurkers > Sender: owner-synergetics-l@teleport.com > Precedence: list > Reply-To: synergetics-l@teleport.com > > all right, guv, fair cuff. I'll come quiet. > > I confess I've posted nothing on Synergetics, but I'm interested. > > Years ago, before kids & job, I used to animate Super 8 film loops of the > jitterbug arrays, and attempted the same in U. of I's then-revolutionary > GRASS graphics system ( used extensively in the original Star Wars ). I used > to ruminate long and hard on the inadequacy of Cartesian-based graphics > display hardware and co-ordinate addressing schemes to represent > transformations of synergetic space. The simple, whole numbers and > rationality of synergetics must be graphically-expressable without resort to > convoluted algoritms. > > ( Although the resolution is probably not sufficient, I wondered if a > liquid crystal sheet, (such as is now used in pocket TV's), could be > electrically-addressed to form dynamically-changing 'interference fringes' , > suitable for illumination by a laser, that are the (inverse?) Fourier > transform of a desired holographic spatial array. I once saw a photographic > plate in a book on holography of an exposure made of a single, simple sphere. > The image on the holographic plate astonished me, for the fringes formed a > high frequency VE , with one of the triangular faces facing the viewer. ) > > I'm excited to see that animations of transforms are produced by people here, > although I have no viewing software ( I've been living in an IBM > midrange-system ivory tower ). Could someone recommend a shareware program > suitable for Windows 3.1/VGA, and where I could acquire it? > .- > -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 20:09:41 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: "Jon R. Fox" Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing Subject: Re: why haven't domes proliferated? In-Reply-To: <3lnqqt$191e@news.ccit.arizona.edu> On 3 Apr 1995, NL Neveln= wrote: > In a recent issue of Time magazine I read something by Stewart > Brand in which he passingly mentioned that geodesic domes were > one of the "dead ends" of the '60s. I also noticed an old > issue of the Whole Earth Catalog that devoted a couple of pages > to domes but the most recent issue does not mention them at all. > Actually the current 'Millenium' edition of the Whole Earth catalog devotes most of an entire page to Fullers work and inventions... including the dymaxion car and a 'flys-eye' dome. Although don't feel too slighted 'BMF fans', the subjects of Physics and Mathematics received only 2 pages.... JRF Opinions stated do not reflect those of the Penn State Physics Community ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 18:01:14 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: POLYHEDRA--A VISUAL APPROACH CONTENTS OF 'POLYHEDRA: A VISUAL APPROACH' BY ANTHONY PUGH, 1976 PREFACE 1. THE PLAYTONIC POLYHEDRA (3 TABLES) a. Construction of Models b. Why There Are Five Platonic Polyhedra c. Some General Characteristics of the Platonic Polyhedra d. The Sum of the Face Angles of a Polyhedron e. Triangulation and the Stability of Polyhedra f. Duality and the Platonic Polyhedra g. Introduction to the Golden Proportion h. The Golden Proportion and the Platonic Polyhedra i. Sketching the Platonic Polyhedra j. Relationships Between the Five Platonic Polyhedra k. Summary 2. THE ARCHIMEDEAN POLYHEDRA, FACIALLY REGULAR PRISMS & ANTIPRISMS (3 TABLES) a. Construction of Models of the Archimedian Polyhedra b. Some Relationships Between the Archimedian & Platonic Polyhedra c. Names of the Archimedian Polyhedra d. Description & Construction of Facially Regular Prisms & Antiprisms e. General Characteristic of Archimedian Polys & Facially Regular Prisms f. The Sum of the Surface Angles g. Triangulation and Stability h. Duality i. Variations on the Archimedian Polyhedra j. An Important Characteristic of the Archimedian Polyhedra 3. FURTHER CONVEX POLYHEDRA WITH REGULAR FACES (6 TABLES) a. Description of the Figures b. Construction of Models c. The Convex Deltahedra 4. THE DUALS OF ARCHIMEDEAN POLYHEDRA, PRISMS, AND ANTIPRISMS (3 TABLES) a. The Shapes of the Faces b. Drawing the Faces c. Constructing the Figures d. Nomenclature e. Characteristic of Duals of Archimedian Polys & Facially Regular Prisms f. Further Relationships to the Archimedian Polyhedra g. Conclusion 5. JOINING POLYHEDRA a. Six Types of Contact b. Plane Tessellations c. Close-Packing Polyhedra d. A Three-Dimensional Approach to Joining Polyhedra e. Helical Combinations of Polyhedra f. Rotating Rings of Polyhedra 6. GEODESIC POLYHEDRA OF R.BUCKMINSTER FULLER & RELATED POLYHEDRA (2 TABLES) a. A Simplified Approach to the Generation of Geodesic Polyhedra b. Comparisons of the Five Platonic Polyhedra as Principal Polyhedra c. Other Principal Polyhedra d. Other Ways of Subdividing the Faces of a Principal Polyhedra e. General Note on Figures with Nontriangular Faces f. Circumspheres, Interspheres, and Inspheres g. Small-Circle Variations on Great-Circle Geometry h. Further Geometric Modifications i. The Truncation of Geodesic Polyhedra j. Construction of Models: Conversion and Use of Data k. Construction of Models: Examples l. The 2-Frequency Icosahedron m. The 3-Frequency Icosahedron n. The 4-Frequency Icosahedron 7. SOME IRREGULAR POLYHEDRA (1 TABLE) a. Truncations of Existing Polyhedra b. Insertion of Rectangular Faces Between the Edges of Existing Polyhedron c. Insertion of Triangular Faces Between the Edges of Existing Polyhedron 8. THE KEPLER POINSOT POLYHEDRA & RELATED FIGURES a. Construction of Models b. Characteristic of Kepler Poinsot Polys & Comparison with Playtonic Polys c. The Five Regular Compounds d. Further Figures Produced by Stellating & Faceting Polyhedra APPENDIX 1. CALCULATIONS a. Useful Data and Formulae b. The Volume of a Regular Tetrahedron c. Express Radii of Circum-, Inter- & In-Sphere of Reg Icos in Term of Edge d. The Edge Lengths of a 3-Frequency Icosahedron e. The Calculation of a Dihedral Angle f. Solving a Problem by Constructing Scale Drawings 2. CHORD FACTORS FOR GEODESIC POLYHEDRA (8 TABLES) a. Figures Derived from the Dodecahedron by the Alternate Method b. Figures Derived from the Icosahedron by the Alternate Method c. Figures Derived from the Octahedron by the Alternate Method d. Figures Derived from the Cube by the Alternate Method e. Figures Derived from the Tetrahedron by the Alternate Method f. Figures Derived from the Truncated Tetrahedron by the Alternate Method g. Small Circle Figures Derived from the Icosahedron h. Clusters of Geodesic Polyhedra Based on the 2-Frequency Truncated Octa 3. BUILDING MODELS OF POLYHEDRA a. Sheet Materials b. Marking Out the Faces c. Cutting and Scoring d. Joining the Faces e. Glues f. The Last Piece g. Stick Models h. General Notes i. Equilateral Triangles j. Squares k. Regular Pentagons (5-Sided Polygons) l. Regular Hexagons (6-Sided Polygons) m. Regular Octagons (8-Sided Polygons) n. Regular Decagons (10-Sided Polygons) o. Checks on Accuracy BIBLIOGRAPHY (NO INDEX) -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 08:54:16 CST Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Tom Dosemagen Subject: Re: why haven't domes proliferated? I live in 44 foot diameter dome (that does not leak) for the past 15 years and I would find it very difficult to move back into a BOX home again. I can sit in my living room and look up 30 feet (I have a cupola on top of my dome) to the top of our dome or I can stand on the third floor and look down into the living room or down onto the second floor balcony. Someone recently referred the sound transfer. If you plan ahead you can reduce that problem with insulation or other sound proofing material. The company that I purchased my precut dome from has found that fiberglass bat type insulation is the best way to insulate a dome. We have people come into our home and say things like Oh you have walls or gee this is alot bigger than it appears on the outside. In the 15 years we have had visitors to our dome we've only had one person say I don't like this. Young and old alike enjoy our home. To those of you that dream of building a dome don't just stand around talking about it, DO IT!!!! I bought got my precut package from Natural Spaces in North Branch, MN. By the way they have a tour of domes comming up soon as well as a 3 day dome school. They also have 2 small domes on display in the Mall Of America in Minneapolis until April 15, 1995. If you would like more info you can call Natural Spaces at 800-733-7107 or fax them at 612-674-8561. By the way I have nothing to gain from providing this info, I'm just a believer in the good product that they provide. By the way they also have a good book available called All About Domes. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 08:08:30 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Synergetics: Lurker Responds (fwd) David F. Watkins writes: > From desiree.teleport.com!teleport.com!synergetics-l-owner Sun Apr 9 19:56:30 1995 > Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 23:02:07 -0400 (EDT) > From: "David F. Watkins" > Subject: Synergetics: Lurker Responds > To: synergetics > Message-ID: > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > Sender: owner-synergetics-l@teleport.com > Precedence: list > Reply-To: synergetics-l@teleport.com > > > I have been a Fuller fan for many years. I believe the first thing I > read was 'Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". I've read at least half > of his books but have never managed to make it more than a few dozen > pages into "Synergetics". > > I only recently started subscribing to mail list. I was reading the > 'geodesic' list and when I heard about this list I thought I would give > it a look. I have been on the verge of unsubscribing several times but > keep finding enough to keep me on. > > My problem with the list is the same problem that I have with the book > (Synergetics). To really get into it takes a lot of time and > concentration. In all of Bucky's writings I have always found his > geometry to be the most difficult part to get through. I think it's great > what's being done on this list, particularly with the use of the net to > transmit pictures of models and programs. > > But, I am not sure what I have to contribute to this list. Maybe as it > goes along I'll find a place to jump in. > > **************************************************************************** > * COOPERATION>COMPETITION * est.enuf.4.all * > *--------------------------------------------------------------------------* > * David F. Watkins * dwat@locke.ccil.org * > **************************************************************************** > > .- > -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 08:59:45 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: SYNERGETICS DICTIONARY CONTENTS OF 'SYNERGETICS DICTIONARY' EDITED BY E.J.APPLEWHITE, 1986 VOL 1: A-E LIST OF MAIN FILE INDICATORS PREAMBLE WITH A FEW EXPLANATIONS AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS BY R.BUCKMINSTER FULLER SAMPLE ENTRIES EDITED BY FULLER HOW TO USE THE SYNERGETICS DICTIONARY THE DICTIONARY (A-E) a. Biblical References b. Complementarities: Paired Citations c. Corollary d. Dates in This File e. Degrees in this File f. Diagrams in this File g. Equals: Checklist h. Equations i. Ethical Physics VOL 2: F-M a. Fuller, R.B.: Personal References b. Geometry of Thinking c. Inventories d. Money Metaphors VOL 3: N-SP a. Nonequals: Checklist b. Numbers in this File c. Paired Concepts: Checklist d. Poets e. Pronouns: Checklist f. Psychological Geometry g. Ratios: Checklist h. Rules i. Sense Phrases j. Sequences: Metaphors VOL 4: SQ-Z a. Tables b. Tetrahedron c. Theory d. Trends e. Vector Equilibrium f. Versus: Checklist APPENDICES VOCABULARY NOTES SOURCES CITED IN THE SYNERGETICS DICTIONARY "SOME PERSPECTIVES OF FULLER'S MATH:UNDERGRAD'S ASSESSMENT" BY WILLIAM MORRELL (NO INDEX) -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 11:08:17 -0700 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Karl Erickson Subject: TOC: _A Fuller Explanation_ by Amy C. Edmondson Table of Contents of _A Fuller Explanation_ by Amy C. Edmondson Birkhauser Boston, Inc., 1987 ------------------ Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Note to Readers Introduction 1. Return to Modelability From Geometry to Geodesics: A Personal Perspective Operational Mathematics Experimental Evidence Nature's Coordinate System Universe Generalized Principles Return to Modelability 2. The Irrationality of Pi "Nature Isn't Using Pi" Finite Accounting System Which Way Is "Up"? Visual Literacy Peaceful Coexistence 3. Systems and Synergy Conceptual and Real Systems Limits of Resolution as Part of the Whole-Systems Approach Synergy 4. Tools of the Trade Plato's Discovery Triangles Squares Pentagons A Limited Family Euler's Law Duality Truncation and Stellation An Experiment "Intertransformability" Symmetry 5. Structure and "Pattern Integrity" Pattern Integrity Structure 6. Angular Topology Frequency and Size Units of Measurement Time and Repetition: Frequency versus Continuum Topology and Vectors Vector Polyhedra Dimension Size Planes of Symmetry Other Applications of Dimension Angular Topology Angular Takeout: An Example Angle Types 7. Vector Equilibrium "Nature's Own Geometry" Spatial Considerations Planar Equilibrium Cuboctahedron as Vector Equilibrium VE: Results Degrees of Freedom 8. Tales Told by the Spheres: Closest Packing Equilibrium: Equalization of Distances Symmetry versus Specificity of Form Organization of Identical Units New Level of Focus Background: Closepacking Planes of Symmetry Fuller Observations Tetrahedra Vector Equilibrium Frequency Icosahedron Further Discoveries: Nests "Interprecessing" A Final Philosophical Note 9. Isotropic Vector Matrix A Quick Comparison: "Synergetics Accounting" Cells: "Inherent Complementarity" A Complete Picture Angles Locating New Polyhedral Systems Duality and the IVM Angles Polyhedra Domain Framework of Possibility Invention: Octet Truss 10. Multiplication by Division: In Search of Cosmic Hierarchy Volume Results: Volume Ratios Shape Comparisons: Qualities of Space Volume: Direct Comparison Multiplication by Division Tetrahedron as Starting Point Cube Vector Equilibrium Rhombic Dodecahedron Multiplication by Division Cosmic Hierarchy (of Nuclear Event Patternings) Volume Reconsidered 11. Jitterbug Folding a Polyhedron Volume and Phase Changes Icosahedron Single Layer versus IVM "Trans-Universe" versus "Locally Operative" Fives "S-Modules" Icosahedron and Rhombic Dodecahedron Pentagonal Dodecahedron Four Dimensions Complex of Jitterbugs Other Dynamic Models Topology and Phase 12. "All-Space" Filling: New Types of Packing Crates Plane Tessellations Filling Space Complementarity Other Space Fillers The Search Continues The Dual Perspective Duality and Domain in Sphere Packing Truncated Octahedron Two to One: A Review 13. The Heart of the Matter: A- and B-Quanta Modules A-Quanta Modules B-Quanta Modules Energy Characteristics Mite Mirrors Cubes into Mites Rhombic Dodecahedra Coupler Volume and Energy Review: All-Space Fillers 14. Cosmic Railroad Tracks: Great Circles Why Are We Talking About Spheres? New Classification System Great-Circle Patterns Least Common Denominator LCD: "Intertransformability" LCD of 31 Great Circles VE's 25 Great Circles Operational Mathematics Conservation of Angle Foldable Systems Energy Paths Gas Molecules Great-Circle Railroad Tracks of Energy Icosahedron as Local Shunting Circuit Inventory: Seven Unique Cosmic Axes of Symmetry Excess of One 15. From Geodesic to Tensegrity: The Invisible Made Visible Theory Behind Geodesic Structures: Summary Geodesic Design in Nature Geodesic Domes: Design Variables Tensegrity Nature's Example New Concept of Construction Modeling the Invisible Tensegrity Polyhedra Pneumatics Case in Point: Donald Ingber 16. "Design Science" "Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science" "Comprehensive..." "...Anticipatory..." Dymaxion Map Suspended Storage Systems More with Less Appendices A. Trigonometric Calculations B. Volume Calculations for Three Prime Structural Systems C. Sources of Additional Information D. Special Properties of the Tetrahedron E. Glossary Bibliography Notes Index ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 14:46:34 -0700 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Karl Erickson Subject: TOC: _Synergetics 1 & 2_ Combined Table of Contents of _Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking_ and _Synergetics 2: Further Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking_ by R. Buckminster Fuller in collaboration with E.J. Applewhite with a preface and contribution by Arthur L. Loeb Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1975, 1979. ------------------------------------------- NOTE: The following Table of Contents is a combination of the _main_ TOCs in the two books. Both books have additional TOCs for each major (100s) section. ------------------------------------------- * denotes sections found in _Synergetics 2_ ------------------------------------------- Preface, by Arthur L. Loeb Moral of the Work Author's Note on the Rationale for Repetition in This Work Introduction: The Wellspring of Reality 100.00 Synergy *100.01 Introduction: Scenario of the Child *100.10 Subdivision of Tetrahedral Unity *100.20 Scenario of the Child *100.30 Omnirational Subdividing *100.40 Finite-Event Scenario *100.50 Constant Triangular Symmetry *100.60 Finite Episoding 101.00 Definition: Synergy 120.00 Mass Interattraction 130.00 Precession and Entropy 140.00 Corollary of Synergy: Principle of Whole System 150.00 Synergy-of-Synergies 160.00 Generalized Design Science Exploration *180.00 Design Science and Human-Tolerance Limits 200.00 Synergetics 200.001 Definition: Synergetics *201.10 Accommodation of Proclivities, Phases, and Disciplines *201.20 Synergetic Hierarchy: Grand Strategy *202.03 Angular Topology 220.00 Synergetics Principles *223.05 Two Kinds of Twoness *223.34 Symmetrical Analysis of Topological Hierarchies *223.67 Synergetics Hierarchy *228.12 Scenario Principle: Considerable Set 240.00 Synergetics Corollaries 250.00 Discoveries of Synergetics *251.00 Discoveries of Synergetics: Inventory *260.00 The Epistemography of Generalization and Special Case *260.10 Invisibility of Macro- and Microresolutions *260.20 Convergent vs. Parallel Perception *260.30 Physical Experience and Closest Packing of Spheres *260.40 Convergence to a Nucleus *260.50 Precession of Two Sets of 10 Closest-Packed Spheres *261.00 Getting Nature into a Corner *262.00 Conceptual Minimum *263.00 Nothingness and Tunability *264.00 Geometry of Self and Otherness *265.00 Unity of Triangulation *266.00 Science and Mathematics in the Language of Electromagnetics *267.00 Observer as Tetrasystem *268.00 Omnioriented Tunability *269.00 Topology of Ins, Outs, and Interrelationships *270.00 Synergetics' Operational Accountability *270.10 Topological Accountability of all Vanishing and Elsewhere Reappearing Quanta 300.00 Universe 301.00 Definition: Universe *310.10 Odd Ball *311.10 Humans as Ultimate Complexities 320.00 Scenario Universe *325.10 Analogy of Rope-making and Film-strips *325.20 Epistemography of Scenario Universe *326.00 Universe and Metaphysical and Physical *326.10 Precession of Side Effects and Primary Effects *326.20 Pyramid of Generalizations *326.30 Comprehensive Universe *326.40 Metaphysical and Physical: Summary *326.50 Metaphysical and Physical: Cross-references 330.00 Universe as Minimum Perpetual Motion Machine 340.00 Expanding Universe 350.00 Negative Universe 360.00 Universe: System: Conceptuality: Structure 400.00 System 400.01 Definition: System *400.65 Summary: Six Positive and Negative Motions *400.66 Basic Motions and Degrees of Freedom *400.70 Visibility and Invisibility of Systems 410.00 Closest Packing of Spheres *415.17 Nucleated Cube: The "External" Octahedron *419.10 Nuclear Domain and Elementality *419.20 Elemental Identification of First and Second Shell Layers *419.23 Table: Number of Protons and Neutrons in Magnesium, Molybdenum, and Uranium 420.00 Isotropic Vector Matrix *421.20 Ideal Vectorial Geometry of Nucleated Systems 430.00 Vector Equilibrium 440.00 Vector Equilibrium as Zero Model 450.00 Great Circles of the Vector Equilibrium and Icosahedron 460.00 Jitterbug: Symmetrical Contraction of Vector Equilibrium *461.10 Deceptiveness of Topology: Quanta Loss by Congruence *465.40 Triangular-cammed, In-out-and-around Jitterbug Model *466.00 Energy-valve Functioning of Outer Shell of Nuclear Domains 470.00 Allspace-Filling Transformations of Vector Equilibrium 480.00 Tetrahedron Discovers Itself and Universe 500.00 Conceptuality 501.00 Definition: Conceptuality *501.20 Cosmic Timetable of Cyclic Events 502.00 Experience *502.03 Complexity 503.00 Happenings 504.00 Special Case *504.10 Truth as Special Case Realizations 505.00 Pattern *505.50 Abstract vs. Energetic *505.60 Minimum-Limit Case *505.70 Topology of Minimum Awareness *505.80 Background Nothingness 506.00 Knot *506.40 Yin-Yang 507.00 Parity 508.00 Number 509.00 Considerable Set 510.00 Star Events 511.00 Energy Event 512.00 Locality 513.00 Vectorial Orientation and Observation 514.00 Axis of Reference 515.00 Frequency *515.15 Complementary Angles 516.00 Frequency Modulation 517.00 Interference 518.00 Critical Proximity 519.00 Point 520.00 Wavilinearity: Fixes 521.00 Vectors: Trajectories 522.00 Deliberately Nonstraight Line 523.00 Vertexes: Crossings 524.00 Novent 525.00 Solids: Matter *525.10 Frequency and Interval 526.00 Space *526.10 Systematic Inclusion and Exclusion of Space *526.20 Visual Aspects of Space *526.30 Systematic Communication of Space 527.00 Dimension *527.08 Convergence and Divergence *527.09 Series vs. Parallel Circuitry *527.25 Nonpolar Points *527.70 Primitive Dimensionality *527.71 Substance Is Systemic 528.00 Size 529.00 Time *529.40 Now Hourglass 530.00 Nonsimultaneity *530.10 Nonsimultaneity of Scenario Universe 531.00 Life *531.10 Life and Death 532.00 Symmetry *532.17 Oscillation of Symmetry and Asymmetry 533.00 Precession *533.07 Intereffects *533.20 Precession and Degrees of Freedom 534.00 Doppler Effect 535.00 Halo Concept *535.20 Building 536.00 Interference Domains of Structural Systems 537.00 Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom *537.40 Game of Universe: Individuality and Degrees of Freedom 538.00 Probability 539.00 Quantum Wave Phenomena 540.00 Frame of Reference *540.10 Prime Vector *540.30 Four-Frequency Hyperbolic Paraboloid *540.40 Multidimensional Accommodation 541.00 Radiation and Gravity *541.15 Local Conservation and Cosmic Regeneration *541.40 Islanded Radiation and Tensional Constancy *542.00 Quality *543.00 Reality and Inexactitude *543.10 Local and Cosmic Inexactitude *543.20 Gravity and Love 600.00 Structure 600.01 Definition: Structure *608.20 Even- and Odd-Number Reduction of Necklace Polygons *608.30 Triangle as Minimum-altitude Tetrahedron 610.00 Triangulation *610.24 Limit Cases: Macro, Medio, and Micro *610.30 Structural Harmonics 620.00 Tetrahedron *621.30 Camera Tripod *625.10 Macro-Micro Invisible Tetrahedra 630.00 Antitetrahedron 640.00 Tension and Compression *646.10 Spherical Behavior of Gravity and Bonding *646.15 Hammer Men and Closest Packing 650.00 Structural Properties of Octet Truss 700.00 Tensegrity 700.01 Definition: Tensegrity 710.00 Vertexial Connections 720.00 Basic Tensegrity Structures 730.00 Stabilization of Tension in Tensegrity Columns 740.00 Tensegrity Masts: Miniaturization 750.00 Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic Tensegrities 760.00 Balloons 770.00 System Turbining in Tensegrity Structures 780.00 Allspace Filling *790.00 Tensegrity Structures *791.00 Cosmic Structuring *792.00 Design *793.00 Tree Structures *794.00 Geodesic Domes *795.00 Reduction to Practice 800.00 Operational Mathematics 801.00 Sensoriality: Sweepout 810.00 One Spherical Triangle Considered as Four *812.05 Background Nothingness 820.00 Tools of Geometry *826.10 Otherness Restraints and Elliptical Orbits 830.00 Foldability of Great Circles 835.00 Bow-Tie Construction of Spherical Octahedron 840.00 Foldability of Four Great Circles of Vector Equilibrium *841.30 Trisection by Inherent Axial Spin of Systems 900.00 Modelability *900.01 Definition: Modelability 901.00 Basic Disequilibrium LCD Triangle *901.19 Omnirational Control Matrix 910.00 A and B Quanta Modules 920.00 Functions of A and B Modules 930.00 Tetrahelix: Unzipping Angle *933.08 Closest-packing of Different-sized Balls *935.00 Octahedron as Conservation and Annihilation Model *936.00 Volumetric Variability with Topological Constancy *937.00 Geometry and Number Share the Same Model *937.20 Doubleness of Octahedron *938.00 Jitterbug Transformation and Annihilation 940.00 Hierarchy of Quanta Module Orientations 950.00 Allspace Filling 960.00 Powers and Dimensions 970.00 First- and Third-Power Progressions of Vector Equilibria 980.00 Pi and Synergetics Constant 985.00 Synergetics Rational Constant Formulas for Area of a Circle and Area and Volume of a Sphere *986.00 T and E Quanta Modules *986.100 Sequence of Considerations *986.200 Narrative Exposition of Spherical Accommodation *986.300 Minimum-Maximum System Limits *986.400 T Quanta Module *986.500 E Quanta Module *986.600 Surface-Volume Ratios in the Atomic Theater *986.61A Concentric, 12-around-one, Closest-packed Spheres Hierarchy *986.62A Table of Concentric Closest-packed Spheres (revised) *986.700 Spheric Nature of Electromagnetic Waves *986.800 Behavioral Proclivities of Spheric Experience *987.00 Multiplication Only by Division *987.100 Great-circle-spun Symmetries and Cleavagings *987.200 Cleavagings Generate Polyhedral Resultants *987.300 Interactions of Symmetries: Spheric Domains *987.400 Interactions of Symmetries: Secondary Great-circle Sets *988.00 Icosahedron and Octahedron: S Quanta Module 990.00 Triangular and Tetrahedral Accounting 995.00 Vector Models of Magic Numbers 1000.00 Omnitopology 1001.00 Inherent Rationality of Omnidirectional Epistemology *1001.20 Field of Geodesic Event Relationships *1005.15 Volume and Area Progressions *1005.611 Metabolic Generalizations *1006.30 Vector Equilibrium Involvement Domain *1006.40 Cosmic System Eight-dimensionality *1007.20 Invalidity of Plane Geometry *1009.57 Acceleration *1009.69 Comet 1010.00 Prime Volumes *1013.00 Geometrical Function of Nine 1020.00 Compound Curvature: Chords and Arcs 1030.00 Omniequilibrium *1033.00 Intertransformability Models and Limits *1033.10 Octave System of Polyhedral Transformations *1033.192 Table: Prime Number Consequences of Spin- halving of Tetrahedron's Volumetric Domain Unity *1033.20 Table: Cosmic Hierarchy of Primitive Polyhedral Systems *1033.30 Symmetrical Contraction of Vector Equilibrium: Quantum Loss *1033.40 Asymmetrical Contraction of Vector Equilibrium: Quantum Loss *1033.50 Quanta Loss by Congruence *1033.60 Primitive Dimensionality *1033.70 Geometrical 20-ness and 24-ness of Vector Equilibrium *1033.80 Possible Atomic Functions in Vector Equilibrium Jitterbug *1033.90 Spheres and Spaces 1040.00 Seven Axes of Symmetry *1041.10 Seven Axes of Truncated Tetrahedron *1043.00 Transformative Spherical Triangle Grid System *1044.00 Minimum Topological Aspects 1050.00 Synergetic Hierarchy *1050.30 Simplest Trigonometric Solutions *1052.32 Possibility of Rational Prime Numbers in High- energy Physics Experiments *1052.350 Microsystems *1052.360 Mite as Model for Quark *1052.50 Syntropy and Entropy *1052.60 Physical Limit and Metaphysical Absolute *1052.80 Radiation-Gravitation: Electromagnetic Membrane *1053.51A Table: Volumetric Hierarchy (revised) *1053.70 Container Structuring: Volume-surface Ratios *1053.80 Growth and Decay 1060.00 Omnisensorial Accomodation *1061.20 Conic Geometry of Trees *1070.00 Plurality of Inherent Topological Twonesses *1071.00 Systematic Character of Prime Thinkability *1072.00 Definability of Structural Systems *1073.00 Cosmic Inherency *1074.00 Prime Nuclear Structural Systems *1075.00 Special Case: Energy and Information *1076.00 Prime Regeneration *1077.00 Prime Number Inherency and Constant Relative Abundance 1100.00 Triangular Geodesics Transformational Projection *(renamed) Constant Zenith Projection 1101.00 Triangular Geodesics Transformational Projection Model 1110.00 Zenith Constancy of Radial Coordination 1120.00 Wrapability *1130.00 Omnidirectional Typewriter 1200.00 Numerology 1210.00 Numerology 1220.00 Indigs *1224.00 Wave Pulsation of Number 24 1230.00 Scheherazade Numbers *1238.22 Tetrahedral Complementations *1238.41 Declining Powers of Factorial Primes Afterpiece (a section of the author's drawings) Contribution to _Synergetics_, by Arthur L. Loeb *Addendum to Contribution of Arthur L. Loeb *Appendix of Tables *Credit for Illustrations and Calculations *Index for Synergetics 1 and 2 *Charts B and C ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 15:47:50 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Re: Synergetics: lurkers (fwd) Chuck Stoffregen writes: > From desiree.teleport.com!teleport.com!synergetics-l-owner Mon Apr 10 12:20:15 1995 > Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 14:03:37 -0500 > Message-Id: <9504101903.AA31050@mail.madison.tec.wi.us> > X-Sender: cas1276@mailbag.madison.tec.wi.us > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > To: synergetics-l@teleport.com > From: Chuck Stoffregen > Subject: Re: Synergetics: lurkers > Sender: owner-synergetics-l@teleport.com > Precedence: list > Reply-To: synergetics-l@teleport.com > > At 11:10 AM 4/6/95 +0100, Gerald de Jong wrote: > >hi folks! > > > >it's too quiet. i want to hear from these people: > > > > >__gerald_de_jong__rotterdam__ "shapes in my dreams" > > I'm sorry I haven't replied yet, you know the song and dance; busy, busy, busy . > > I have read "Synergetics 1" about 5 times, cover to cover. > > I think that what Bucky had in mind was describing the shape of Universe. > We have been using the wrong measuring device. It worked for many centuries > but isn't enough to mesure, accruately, the very microscopic and very > macroscopic distances between energy events. > > He may seem unnecessarily verbose to the layman, but once you read him > several times, you see that he is very, very economic in his use of words. > He does repeat himself, yes, for emphasis, for clarity, and especially to > describe the intertwinings of the concepts of Synergetics and the classical > divisions of modern science. > > More Later, > > Chuck Stoffregen > Computer Teacher > Madison Area Technical College > cas1276@madison.tec.wi.us > > > .- > -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 15:51:49 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: PROTOTYPE FLOATING COMMUNITY CONTENTS OF 'A PROTOTYPE FLOATING COMMUNITY' BY TRITON FOUNDATION, INC, 1968 (Study Performed by Fuller and Staff Under Contract to HUD) THE REPORT 1. LOCATIONAL POSSIBILITIES AND SITE ENVIRONMENT a. Locational Possibilities b. Site Considerations c. Site Environment d. Vertical Clearances e. References 2. POPULATION STATISTICS AND ORGANIZATION a. Developing a Balanced Population b. Population Breakdowns c. Family Size d. Age Grouping e. Organization of City Facilities f. Population Densities g. Facility Requirements h. References 3. AREA AND SPACE REQUIREMENTS a. Space Allocations b. Area Requirements for Village Modules c. Area Requirements for Town Center Modules d. Area Requiremrnts for City Center Modules e. Area and Space Allocations Summary f. Flexibility g. References 4. TRANSPORTATION a. Trip Generation Volumes b. Alternate Transportation Systems c. References 5. TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS a. Marine 1) Stability 2) Response to Wave Action 3) Anchoring Requirements b. Structural 1) General 2) Code Requirements 3) Protection: Fire and Flooding 4) Life of Structure, Maintenance and Deterioration 5) Superstructure 6) Base Structure 7) Existing Technology for Major Flotation Structures 8) Alternate Base Structures c. Mechanical 1) Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning 2) Plumbing 3) Electrical 4) Equipment Weight 5) Total Energy Plant d. Construction 1) Construction Industry 2) Off-Site Plant Fabrication 3) Materials and Construction e. References 6. COSTS AND COST COMPARISONS a. Preliminary City Cost Estimate b. Preliminary Cost Breakdown c. Costs Per Person: Conventional Construction d. Cost Comparisons: Cost Per Person vs. Population e. Land and Renewal Costs f. References 7. CITY PROBLEMS AND TRENDS a. City Problems b. Tradition of Land Fill c. Water Recreation Statistics d. Waterfront Living e. Advantages of Floating Cities f. References 8. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS a. Preliminary Considerations b. Human Scale c. Safety in the Streets d. A Quality School System e. Reducing the Journey to Work f. Uglification and the Automobile g. References 9. RECOMMENDATIONS AND SCOPE OF FURTHER STUDY a. Social, Economic, Educational b. Transportation c. Planning and Organization d. Construction e. Structural f. Marine g. Mechanical STAFF AND CONSULTANTS OF TRITON FOUNDATION SUPPLEMENTAL BIBLIOGRAPHY (NO INDEX) -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 20:09:25 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Marcia Blackburn Bertland Subject: Artifacts of RBF Hi all! A few weeks back, someone mentioned that the four volumes of The Artifacts of RBF are now available at $50 each. I have misplaced the information with the publisher's address and phone number. Does someone have this? Oh, and thanks to those sharing RBF events. I'm going to try to make the May 8th Cooper Union event. I encourage everyone to list events coming up. Does anyone know what's happening with the Wichita House at the Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn, MI? Thanks, Marcia Blackburn Bertland bd81064@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 20:16:57 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Marcia Blackburn Bertland Subject: RBF Articles X-To: Joe Moore In-Reply-To: <199504101724.NAA03436@bingnfs1.cc.binghamton.edu> Joe or anyone, do you know of special articles on Fuller planned in the next few months? Is the Futurist or Architectural Record planning anything? (I'm interested in both popular and scholarly publications.) If anyone knows ahead of time, I'd like to be able to get my hands on the publications as they come out. If anyone on this list has had Bucky articles accepted for publication, let us know. Also, does anyone have subscription information for Dome Magazine handy? (address, phone number, cost) I'm interested in subscribing, but my library doesn't carry it. Thanks, Marcia Blackburn Bertland ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 18:01:47 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Re: RBF Articles X-To: bd81064@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu In-Reply-To: ; from "bd81064@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu" at Apr 10, 95 8:16 pm bd81064@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu writes: > > > Joe or anyone, do you know of special articles on Fuller planned in the > next few months? Is the Futurist or Architectural Record planning > anything? (I'm interested in both popular and scholarly publications.) > If anyone knows ahead of time, I'd like to be able to get my hands > on the publications as they come out. > > If anyone on this list has had Bucky articles accepted for publication, > let us know. > > Also, does anyone have subscription information for Dome Magazine handy? > (address, phone number, cost) I'm interested in subscribing, but my library > doesn't carry it. > > Thanks, > Marcia Blackburn Bertland > > .- > Don't know of any, but surely there must be some. the e-mail address for the editor of Dome mag, Cynthia Kerstiens, is cindyk@hoflin.com In case this is old info, the e-mail for the publisher, Donald Hoflin, is donh@hoflin.com Their phone # is 303-934-5656 (6am-6pm Denver time. $40/yr. -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 18:15:09 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: SYN DICTIONARY X-To: temple@vax2z.scz.ssi1.com Ruth, I don't actually own a copy of Synergetics Dictionary; I obtained volumes 1 & 2 (out of 4) through the Inter-Library Loan Service. They would only let me view them in the library for three days. Each volume is about 2 inches thick. Each page consists of 8 index cards. I only skimmed the 2 volumes and made copies of a few pages. I don't remember reading "Monetary Metaphors", but I bet it referrs to the"Honey-Money Bees". If you decide to try to view the Dictionary, I recommend volumes 1 & 4, as they have a lot of supplemental info. Joe -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 18:04:18 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: STUDY OF SHELTER LOGISTICS CONTENTS:'STUDY OF SHELTER LOGISTICS FOR MARINE CORPS AVIATION'BY H.C.LANE,'54 (R.B.Fuller Commissioned to Do Study at Quantico, Virginia) 1. FORWORD 2. INTRODUCTION 3. THE SHELTER LOGISTICS PROBLEM a. General Aspects 1) Background and Development 2) Conclusion b. Special Aspects 4. FACTORS INVOLVED IN SOLUTION a. Classification 1) Functional Suitability 2) Simplicity 3) Durability 4) Transportability 5) Constructability 6) Produceability b. Conclusions 5. MARINE AVIATION'S CURRENT SOLUTION a. Initial Concept 1) Phase I 2) Phase II 3) Phase III b. Secondary Developments c. Conclusions 6. A NEW SOLUTION a. Background b. Interim Report c. Further Study (8 Domes) 1) North Carolina State Flyable Dome Jan 1954 2) Tulane Dome Feb 1954 3) University of Michigan Dome Mar 1954 4) Virginia Polytechnic Institute Dome Apr 1954 5) North Carolina State College Dome Apr 1954 6) Special Bureau of Aeronautics Dome Jun 1954 7) Fuller Paperboard Dome Jul 1954 8) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dome Aug 1954 d. Conclusions 7. MILITARY GEODESIC DOMES TODAY a. 36 Foot Diameter Hemispherical Personnel Shelter b. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics Formal Designs (3 Domes) 1) 36 Foot Diameter Shop Maintenance Shelter 2) 55 Foot Diameter Single Plane Aircraft Hangar 3) 117 Foot Diameter Six-Plane Aircraft Hangar c. 36 Foot Diameter One-Third Sphere Prototype d. 42 Foot Diameter Hemisphere Storage Shelter e. 42 Foot Diameter One-Third Sphere 8. EFFECTS & RESULTS OF ADOPTION a. Over-All Comparison 1) Functional Utility 2) Durability 3) Transportability 4) Constructability 5) Simplicity 6) Produceability b. Specific Comparison 1) Weight 2) Shipping Volume 3) Cost 4) Man-Hours 5) Summary c. General Comparisons and Conclusions 1) Flexability 2) Mobility 3) Hitting Power Factor 9. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE a. Adoption of Dome Shelters b. Additional Development Necessary 1) Princeton University Study of Sept. 1954 2) 32 Foot Diameter Prototype 3) Fuller 42 Foot Diameter Dome 4) Washington University 42 Foot Diameter Structure 5) Summary c. Other Areas for Development 1) Development of Structure and Weatherproof Membrane 2) Development of Appurtenances, Components, Attachments, Refinements 3) Application of Domes for Special Functions 10. CONCLUSIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS a. Conclusions 1) Geodesic Domes Applicable to Requirements of Marine Aviation 2) Domes Applicable to 99% of Marine Aviation Shelter Needs 3) Geodesic Dome R & D Is Essential and Must Continue 4) Domes Increase Mobility, Flexibility & Operational Efficiency 5) Geodesic Dome Use Will Afford Continual Training b. Recommendations 1) Geodesic Domes Be Adopted by Marine Aviation 2) Geodesic Domes be Phased into the Aircraft, Fleet Marine Forces 3) 55' Dome Aircraft Shelters be Provided F,MF Immediately 4) Continuing Research & Development be Established (NO INDEX) -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 21:50:49 -0800 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Jon Legree unsubscribe Jon Legree ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 22:43:48 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: DOMEBOOK 2 CONTENTS OF 'DOMEBOOK 2' BY PACIFIC DOMES, 1971 PREFACE 1. SIMPLE GEODESICS 2. MODELS a. Intro b. Strut Models c. Membrane Models 3. GREAT CIRCLES 4. SPHERICAL TRIG 5. GEODESIC GEOMETRY BY JONATHAN KANTER a. Intro b. Alternate Breakdown c. Triacon Breakdown d. Modified Spheres 6. SUN DOME (POPULAR SCIENCE, MAY 1966) 7. BIG SUR DOME 8. PACIFIC DOME 9. HUB DOMES a. Washer Hub Dome b. Plywood Hub Dome 10. ALUMINUM TRIACON DOME 11. ALUMINUM SUN DOME 12. PACIFIC HIGH SCHOOL 13. ELLIPTICAL DOMES BY PETER CALTHORPE a. Math b. Models c. Egg Dome d. Zapoche Dome 14. MUSLIN-FOAM DOME BY JONATHAN KANTER 15. TUBE FRAME DOMES 16. PILLOW DOME BY JAY BALDWIN 17. PORTABLE PILLOW DOME BY HANS MEYER 18. THE POD DOME BY MARTIN BARTLETT 19. TENT DOMES 20. 3/4 DOME BY JEFF MORSE 21. SHAKE DOME BY JIM ANDERSON 22. SHEET METAL DOME BY WAYNE CARTWRIGHT 23. INSIDE DOMES (PICTURES) 24. HOT RATS DOMES 25. THE RED ROCKERS DOME 26. ISLA VISTA DOMES BY BOB EASTON 27. STONE DOMES BY RUSSELL JENSEN 28. FERRO CEMENT DOMES BY DEREK VAN LOAN 29. PLASTIC FOAM DOMES BY JOHN NOLAN 30. PARACHUTE FOAM DOME BY JOHN WELLES 31. FLOORS 32. SEALING 33. WINDOWS 34. VENTS 35. FULLER ITEM "M" (NATURAL VENTILATION) BY R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER 36. DOORS 37. HEATING AND INSULATION 38. NEW MATERIALS 39. HOLLYWOOD HILLS DOME 40. TENSILE STRUCTURES BY HANS MEYER 41. AN INTERVIEW WITH R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER 42. DROP CITY 43. TENSEGRITY ICOSA BY HUGH KENNER 44. DIAMOND DOME BY KATHLEEN WHITACRE 45. BAMBOO DOME BY R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER 46. ANANDA DOMES 47. WRITERS 48. ZOMES 49. CONNECTIONS AND TRUNCATIONS BY PETER CALTHORPE 50. GEODESIC MATH BY JOSEPH D. CLINTON 51. CHORD FACTORS BY JOSEPH D. CLINTON 52. USEFUL MATH 53. BUILDING INSPECTOR, 54. TRIODETICS STRUCTURES LTD. 55. FOAM SHOT ON INFLATED BAG BY LLOYD TURNER 56. CHARAS CARDBOARD DOME 57. COSTS 58. MASTS 59. DOME DESIGN 60. ANT FARM 61. LOW-COST SPIRAL STAIRWAY BY KEN KERN 62. DYNA DOMES 63. JOINING 64. THE SUN 65. WIND 66. BIBLIOGRAPHY 67. PAPER MODELS 68. UNTESTED IDEAS 69. CREDITS (NO INDEX) -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 04:59:28 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Kiyoshi Kuromiya Subject: Re: Artifacts of RBF Marcia Blackburn Bertland asks for name of publisher of The Artifacts of RBF: Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London, 1985. You should be able to get phone number and address > >A few weeks back, someone mentioned that the four volumes of The >Artifacts of RBF are now available at $50 each. I have misplaced the >information with the publisher's address and phone number. Does someone >have this? > >Oh, and thanks to those sharing RBF events. I'm going to try to make the >May 8th Cooper Union event. I encourage everyone to list events coming >up. Does anyone know what's happening with the Wichita House at the Ford >Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn, MI? > >Thanks, >Marcia Blackburn Bertland >bd81064@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu > ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________ Kiyoshi Kuromiya Project Director/Editor Critical Path Project Email: kiyoshi@critpath.org Hotline: (215) 545-2212 (24-hr) Fax: (215) 735-2762 Beeper: (800) 973-8084 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 10:45:36 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: geoman Subject: It's Cooper-Hewitt, not Cooper Union This is just to let you know that the posting "Preliminary summary of RBF Centenary Events" contains an error. I planned to go today to Cooper Union engineering school for the lecture series Desing = the Bottom line with Dymazion car, etc. After some sleuthing I discovered that the event was not at Cooper Union but at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, nearby in New York (well, it's on the same island anyway. But all interested should know that the event has been RESCHEDULED to an unknown date in the Fall. So if you're planning to attend and report back to this group, I'm told by Cooper-Hewitt that the MAY 8 event is still scheduled (The Dymaxion Dwelling Machine), as are the events on May 15 (Unfolding Structures with Chuck Hoberman) and July 12 (Jay Baldwin on Bucky. Call in advance to make sure: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum 2 East 91 Street (between Madison & Fifth Aves) (212) 860-6898 or 860-6868 >From Michael Schneider (geoman@panix.com) ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 09:53:40 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: ORDER IN SPACE CONTENTS OF 'ORDER IN SPACE: A DESIGN SOURCE BOOK' BY KEITH CRITCHLOW, 1969 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PREFACE 1. THE MOVES INTO THE DIMENSIONS 2. THE ECONOMIC UNFOLDING OF THE DIMENSIONS OF SPACE 3. EVOLUTION OF THE BASIC SPHEREPOINT CONFIGURATIONS 4. ALTERNATE METHOD OF HIERARCHY OF SOLIDS 5. SYMMETRY 6. THE SURFACES BETWEEN THE POINTS OF CONTACT OF THE SPHEREPOINT GROUPINGS 7. THE SPHERICAL SYMMETRY OF THE 5 PLATONIC FIGS RELATED TO 1ST 3 MOVES 8. THE REGULAR TETRACTYS 9. INTER-RELATIONSHIP OF THE 5 PLATONIC SOLIDS 10. CUBOCTAHEDRON OR DYMAXION 11. RELATIONSHIPS IN THE DYMAXION 12. THE SEMI-REGULAR SOLIDS 13. THE OCTAHEDRAL FAMILY 14. THE ICOSAHEDRAL FAMILY 15. THE THIRTEEN CIRCUMSPHERES CLOSEPACKED 16. TRANSITION FROM VE TO ICOSA 17. COMPONENTS OF SEVEN OF THE ARCHIMEDIAN DUALS 18. COMPONENTS OF SIX REMAINING ARCHIMEDIAN DUALS 19. NET, PERSPECTIVE SKETCHES, AND SPACE-FILLING 20. ALL-SPACE FILLING POLYHEDRA 21. TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE TRUNCATED OCTAHEDRON 22. SUBDIVISIONS OF THE RHOMBIC DODECAHEDRON 23. RELATIONSHIP OF RHOMBIC DODECAHEDRON TO SNUB TETRAHEDRON 24. TRANSFORMATIONS OF SINGLE CLOSE-PACKING SOLIDS 25. SHAPES MADE UP BY THE SURFACE AREAS BETWEEN POINTS 26. SPACE-FILLING SURFACE PATTERNS 27. THE FIRST 5 DEMI-REGULAR PATTERNS 28. THE NEXT 3 DEMI-REGULAR PATTERNS 29. THE LAST 6 DEMI-REGULAR PATTERNS 30. PATTERNS EXTRACTED FROM THE SEMI-REGULAR LATTICES (CLOSED PATHS) 31. CLOSED-PATH PATTERNS FROM SEMI-REGULAR GRIDS 32. LAST 2 FAMILIES OF THE SEMI-REGULAR LATTICES 33. PATTERNS FORMED BY INSCRIBING CIRCLES IN THE 8 SEMI-REGULAR GRIDS 34. NATURE OF DUALITY OF SEMI-, DEMI-, AND REGULAR PATTERNS 35. FIRST FIVE SPACE-FILLING LATTICES 36. FIVE MORE SPACE-FILLING LATTICES 37. LAST FOUR SPACE-FILLING LATTICES 38. THE GOLDEN MEAN (FIBONACCI) 39. INTEGRATION OF FIRST TWO MEMBERS OF THE ARCHIMEDIAN FAMILIES 40. A MULTI-DIRECTIONAL PROPORTIONAL SYSTEM TO HUMAN SCALE 41. INTEGRATION OF THREE SCALES OF CIRCLES WITH THE PROPORTIONAL FIGURE 42. ROTATIONAL LINES OF SYMMETRY ON THE ICOSAHEDRON 43. SPHERICAL PROJECTION OF LINES OF SYMMETRY (ICOSA) 44. APPENDIX a. A Periodic Arrangement of the Elements of Spacial Order b. Periodic Arrangement of Multiple 1, 2 & 3 All-Space Filling Solids c. Aspects and Definitions d. An Investigation into Aspects of the 12 Degrees of Freedom 45. BIBLIOGRAPHY (NO INDEX) -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 19:38:53 +0000 Reply-To: richard@henderr.demon.co.uk Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Richard Henderson Subject: New Bucky stuff on WWW just checked out Robert Anton Wilson's new 'Trajectories' web site - there's a couple of articles about Bucky on there.. They can be found at http://www.nets.com/site/raw/fuller.html, while the Trajectories homepage is at http://www.nets.com/trajectories.html Richard *-----http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/hpp?GoatBoy.html-----* "Everybody got boners about the technology used in the Gulf War, and I guess it was kind of amazing watching a missile fly down an air vent. But couldn't we feasibly use that same technology to shoot food at hungry people?" - Bill Hicks ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 14:21:55 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: 50 YEARS OF DESIGN SCIENCE CONTENTS OF '50 YEARS OF DESIGN SCIENCE REVOLUTION & WORLD GAME' BY BF, 1969 FOREWORD BY THOMAS BROUSSARD TURNER HISTORY 1. 4D FULLER HOUSE & WORLD TOWN PLAN a. Conception of the Industrialized House b. "Tree-Like Style of Dwelling Planned"by BF,Chicago Evening Post,12-18-28 c. "4D" by RBF, Harvard Society of Contemporary Art Catalog, Jun 1929 d. "Dymaxion" by Editor, Harvard Crimson, 5-22-29 e. "Fuller Dymaxion House Display"by Cunningham,Chicago Evenin Post,5-13-30 f. "5 Questions & a Striking Answer" by A.McLeish, Fortune, July 1932 g. "Conning Tower" by B.Fuller, Shelter magazine, Nov 1932 2. THE FULLER DYMAXION BATHROOM a. The Industrialized Mechanical Package b. Reprint from 'The Dymaxion World of B.Fuller' by Robert Marks, 1960 c. "Newest Prefabricated Bathroom is Also Nearest"by ?,The Ladle, Apr 1937 d. "Sanitarzelle Aus Glasfaser-Verstarktem Palatal"by ?,BASF mag, Aug 1967 3. AN INVENTORY OF THE WORLD'S RESOURCES a. "U.S. Industrialization" by staff, Fortune magazine, Feb 1940 b. "The Press--New Era" by Henry Luce, Time magazine, 2-5-40 4. THE DYMAXION DWELLING MACHINE a. Production of the Industrialized House b. "Fuller's House" by staff, Fortune magazine, Apr 1946 5. THE GEODESIC DOME AND ITS ACCEPTANCE a. A Controlled Environment b. "Marines Try Out Flyable Shelter" by ? , New York Times, 1-29-54 c. "An Expo Named Buckminster Fuller"by D.Jacobs,New York Times Mag,4-23-67 6. MECHANICAL PACKAGE--FALLOUT FROM SPACE PROGRAM a. "That Fuller Sure is High Flier"by W.V.Eckhardt,Washington Post,10-2-66 b. "The Year 2000" by R.B.Fuller, Architectural Design magazine Feb 1967 c. "City of the Future" by R.B.Fuller, Playboy magazine, Feb 1967 d. "Why Not Roofs Over Our Cities?" by RBF, Think magazine, Jan/Feb 1968 7. THE WORLD GAME a. "World Game:How It Came About"by BF,Nat Meet Op Res/Am Astro Soc,6-18-69 b. "Modern Living: Design--The Dymaxion American" by staff, Time, 1-10-64 (NO INDEX) (Available from the Buckminster Fuller Institute bfi@aol.com) -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 16:22:54 MDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: "Ken G. Brown" Organization: BEST Online Subject: Re: Artifacts of RBF >Marcia Blackburn Bertland asks for name of publisher of The Artifacts of RBF: Garland Publishing 1000A Sherman Ave. Hamden, CT 06514 -Ken G. Brown- kbrown@atc.edmonton.ab.ca ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 19:11:33 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: STRUCTURE IN NATURE CONTENTS OF 'STRUCTURE IN NATURE IS A STRATEGY FOR DESIGN' BY P.PEARCE, 1978 PREFACE & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 0. INTRODUCTION a. Systems for Diversity b. Structure in Nature c. Form as a Diagram of Forces d. An Integrative Morphology 1. GEOMETRY AS STRUCTURE a. The Platonic Solids. Triangulation and Geometric Stability b. Triangulation and Closest Packing c. Partitioning and Tessellation. Networks and Dual Networks d. Filling the Voids: The Kelvin Figure e. Many-Celled Soap Bubble Arrays f. Simple Bubble Arrays. The Law of Closest Packing and Triangulation g. Closest Packed Unequal Spheres:Coordination Polys & Polyhedral Domains h. The Soap Bubble Array as Archetype 2. CLOSEST PACKING IN NATURE a. Hexagons, Hierarchies, and Scale Independence b. A Catalog of Natural Forms 3. SOME PRINCIPLES OF BUILT STRUCTURE a. Triangulation of Built Forms b. The Loaded Frames c. Space Frames d. Local Instability in Planar and Domical Space Frames 4. ORDERING PRINCIPLES AND GEOMETRY a. Tesselations of the Plane b. Polyhedra and Their Duals c. Compound, Quasiregular, and Stellated Polyhedra d. Convex Polyhedra Composed of Regular Polygons 5. SYMMETRY AND SPACE FILLING a. Symmetry Classes b. Lattices and Unit Cells c. Space Filling Polyhedra d. Regular and Semiregular Polyhedra as Multiple Space Fillers e. Space Filling Systems Derived from the Rhombic Dodecahedron f. Connected Networks g. The Intelligibility of Three-Dimensional Space 6. TOWARD A MORPHOLOGICAL SYSTEM a. Morphological Units: Mathematics Concretely Embodied b. Spheres as Morphological Units c. Polyhedra as Morphological Units d. Morphological Networks e. Abstraction and Built Form: The Morphological Node and Branches 7. PRINCIPLES OF ORDER AND THE UNIVERSAL NODE SYSTEM a. Classifying Finite Polyhedra with the Integrative Morphological System b. Classifying Space Filling System with Integrative Morphological System c. Triangulated Structures Derived from the Universal Network 8. SADDLE POLYHEDRA, THE UNIVERSAL NETWORK. THE CUBE REVISITED a. Minimal Surfaces, Mean Curvature b. Saddle Surfaces and Interstitial Domains c. Saddle Polyhedra and Connected Networks d. Describing the Universal Network with Saddle Polyhedra e. Regular and Semiregular Saddle Polyhedra f. Saddle Polyhedra: An Inventory of Possibilities g. Diverse Networks Share Common Point Lattices h. The Universal Network as Interactive Process 9. CONTINUOUS SURFACES AND LABYRINTHS a. Continuous Surfaces from Space Filling Saddle Polyhedra b. Labyrinths Derived from Plane Faced Polyhedra 10. CONTINUOUS SURFACES AS TRIANGULATED NETWORKS a. Structural Characteristics of Continuous Triangulated Networks b. Periodic Triangulated Networks Derived from Continuous Surfaces 11. INFINITE SPACIAL NETWORKS FROM EQUILATERAL TRIANGLES a. Periodic Systems of Equilateral Triangles 12. CLOSEST PACKED CELLS AND THE TRIANGULATION OF SPACE a. Triangulated Structures Derived from Closest Packed Cellular Systems b. Triangulated Labyrinths Derived from Penta Dodecas & Hexakaidecahedra c. Triangulated Packings of Rhombic Triacontahedra & Starred Dodecahedra d. Alternative Modes of a Comprehensive System e. Dodecahedral/Hexakaidecahedral Packings & the Universal Node System f. Triangulated Structures Derived from Truncations of Dodeca/Hexa Packing g. Periodic Structures Composed of Distorted Icosahedra h. Other Icosahedron-Related Structures i. Triangulation of the Kelvin Minimal Tetrakaidecahedron j. Diversity and Order Prevailing in the Triangulation of Space 13. MINIMUM INVENTORY/MAXIMUM DIVERSITY BUILDING SYSTEMS a. The Min-A-Max Building System b. The Universal Node Building System c. Reasonable Expectations 14. SADDLE POLYHEDRA AND CONTINUOUS SURFACES AS ENVIRONMENTAL STRUCTURES a. Saddle Surfaces as Planar Space Structures b. Continuous Surfaces and Their Triangulated Networks as Building Systems c. Curved Space Continuous Surfaces as Recreational Environments d. The Realm of Possibility BIBLIOGRAPHY (NO INDEX) -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 00:43:39 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Nick Pine Organization: Villanova University Subject: Re: New Bucky stuff on WWW Richard Henderson wrote: >just checked out Robert Anton Wilson's new 'Trajectories' web site - >there's a couple of articles about Bucky on there... Love it :-) Nick Article: 110 of alt.solar.thermal From: nick@vu-vlsi.ee.vill.edu (Nick Pine) Newsgroups: alt.energy.renewable,alt.architecture.alternative,alt.solar.thermal Subject: An attic warmstore Followup-To: alt.solar.thermal Date: 11 Apr 1995 07:42:33 -0400 Organization: Villanova University Norman Saunders and I talked over a plan for an addition to my house on Saturday, and I came away convinced that I should put my solar thermal storage in the attic, as he has done in his houses, e.g. as described in William Shurcliff's 1983 Brick House book, _Super Solar Houses_. I had been somewhat leery of putting 36,000 pounds of hot water in the attic, 72 55 gallon drums full of water stacked up vertically, 3-high in 2 rows in the middle, 2-high a bit further out to the north and south, and 1-high near the edges, on a 16' x 16' strong floor under a steep sloping roof, as below, but now it looks doable and desirable to me... After all, Norman has done this before, many times, and he is a licensed professional engineer, and people have been building strong floors for many years, and my part of Pennsylvania has few earthquakes. If the warm store were built of waterbeds or an EPDM rubber pond, it would make the structure fairly fireproof, and more earthquake-proof, but the pond would have less surface area, and thus a lower heat transfer rate, and I would worry more about leaks. Norman now has years of measured temperatures from data loggers attached to some of his houses, and they really are very close to 100% solar heated :-) Some of them have no backup heating systems at all, in New England... Here's a sketch of part of the current plan for my addition: The attic, as seen from above: --door-------------- - . sauna wh 3 2 1 . | I would use part of the attic as a sauna, and it . 3 2 1 . would also contain an electric water heater, with . 1 2 3 3 2 1 . some large diameter copper or PVC feed . 1 2 3 T3 2 1 . 16' northwest pipe running east-west under the ridge. . 1 2 3 3 2 1 . . 1 2 3 3 2 1 . Norman suggested putting a large single piece of . 1 2 3 3 2 1 . | EPDM rubber roofing material under the drums, -------------------- - with a 4' lip, in case one leaks... northeast |<-- 16' -->| f The whole roof area would be insulated, with g T f 5 1/2" of fiberglass on the north slope and 3 1/2" g D T D f on the south slope. The south slope would be glazed g T f with clear polycarbonate plastic, with a piece of g D D T D D f greenhouse shadecloth under that, and the south g T f wall would also be glazed, with free airflow from g D D D T D D D f the south glazing up into the attic. ppppppppppppppppppppp g truss w A kingpost k, with tension members t would support tptptptptptptptptptpt the balcony, which would cover half of the two- g t k t w story room below the attic. g t k t w g t k t w Tension member T in the attic would provide some g t k t w redundant support for the floor, most of which would bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb be supported by the truss indicated. The floor needs g w to support about 400 psf in the center, which seems g w doable with 2 x 12s on 2' centers, with 1/2" plywood g w above and 1/8" Thermo-Ply below (see program below.) g w ccccccccccccccccccccc................. c c c c c vbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbv <--- vapor barrier The upper foil surface of the Thermo-Ply ceiling will act as a downward radiant heat barrier, and the lower white surface will be the interior ceiling finish. I may put some aluminized bubble pack on top of the Thermo-Ply, as an additional radiant barrier. There will be some holes in the Thermo-Ply at the north and south edges to allow airflow from below, down the south side, near the south wall glazing, up behind the shadecloth north of the glazing, thru the space between the attic floor and the ceiling of the room below, south to north, and up into the attic on the north side. The northeast wall of the new room will have some "solar siding." There will be a "cool store" below, thermally-coupled with the ground. The basement and attic of the adjoining house will be used as an air duct, to bring down warm air from the warm store in winter for house heating, and to bring up cool air from the cool store in summer for house cooling. In a more normal, stand-alone situation, the kingpost above might be replaced by a support-column/airshaft running from the attic floor to the ground, with two low-power fans inside. This column might be built of 6 55 gallon deheaded steel drums, stacked up vertically and covered with wire mesh and cement. Here is how I calculate the size of the central east-west beam under the attic floor, ignoring redundant tension member T: 10 'a program to calculate the strength of an I beam like this: 20 ' 30 ' | upper plate width Ba| 40 ' ---------------------- upper plate thickness Ha, eg 1/2" plywood 50 ' ---------------------- 60 ' . . 70 ' . . 80 ' . . Bb wide x Hb deep member, eg 2 x 12s on 2' centers 90 ' . . 100 ' --------------------------- lower plate thickness Hc, 110 ' --------------------------- eg 1/8" Thermo-Ply 120 ' | lower plate width Bc | 130 ' 140 'with a length of L feet and a distributed total load of W pounds. 150 ' 160 HA=1/2'inches 170 BA=HA*12'inches, limit upper plate thickness by buckling to l/d = 12 180 HB=11.5'inches 190 BB=3'inches 200 HC=.125'inches 210 BC=24'inches 230 L=8'feet 240 PSF=500'psf water drum load 250 W=BC/12*L*PSF'total load on beam 260 'calculate beam section areas 270 AA=BA*HA'area of upper plate 280 AB=BB*HB'area of inside member 290 AC=BC*HC'area of inside member 300 'find centroid (neutral axis) of combined beam 310 YA=HA/2'centroid of top plate 320 YB=HA+HB/2'centroid of inside beam 330 YC=HA+HB+HC/2'centroid of bottom plate 340 YN=(AA*YA+AB*YB+AC*YC)/(AA+AB+AC)'distance from top of beam to neutral axis 350 IYA=1/12*BA*HA^3'moment of inertia of the upper plate, from its centroid 360 IYAN=IYA+AA*(YA-YN)^2'moment of inertia of the upper plate, from the n. a. 370 IYB=1/12*BB*HB^3'moment of inertia of the inside beam, from its centroid 380 IYBN=IYB+AB*(YB-YN)^2'moment of inertia of the inside beam, from the n. a. 390 IYC=1/12*BC*HC^3'moment of inertia of the bottom plate, from its centroid 400 IYCN=IYC+AC*(YC-YN)^2'moment of inertia of the bottom plate, from the n. a. 410 IYN=IYAN+IYBN+IYCN'moment of inertia of combined beam, from its n. a. 420 CT=YN'distance from neutral axis to top of beam 430 CB=HA+HB+HC-YN'distance from neutral axis to bottom of beam 440 ZT=IYN/CT'maximum compressive stress at top of beam 450 ZB=IYN/CB'maximum tensile stress at bottom of beam 460 M=W*L*12/8'bending moment 470 ST=M/ZT'maximum fiber stress at top of beam 480 SB=M/ZB'maximum fiber stress at bottom of beam 490 PRINT"Stop (psi) = ";ST,"Sbot (psi) = ";SB RUN Stop (psi) = 1015.321 Sbot (psi) = 958.7888 This looks OK to me, since plywood should withstand about 1000 psi in compression, along the grain, and Thermo-ply has a tested tensile strength of about 5000 psi, in the long direction, vs. 958 psi above. (Are there any structural engineers in this group, vs. amateurs like me?) Instead of using 2 2 x 12s as the main east-west beam, as in the above calc, I will probably use a wood truss similar to that shown holding up the balcony, to allow free airflow from south to north under the attic floor... Nick PS: Still only 5 people signed up for my 12 hour, $30 passive solar heating workshop on Earth Day, April 22. The room holds 35 people... ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 15:47:09 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Kim Depaoli Subject: A Rehab Invitation Greetings to all! My husband and myself (Pete & Kim) have just signed a contract to lease Fuller's Dome in Carbondale IL. The dome is requiring some rehab to pass city inspection and we are inviting any interesested parties to assist in that rehab. The pay would be the satisfaction of having been involved in the refurbishing of Fuller's dome that he built and lived in for some years while a professor at SIU. The first weekend of the work will be May the 5th. Please write us back at althea58@aol.com. Thanx and I love this list! P.S. When the dome is finished and we are moved in (June 15) we will have a dome party to celebrate and keep the dream alive. There is also a Fuller Festival going on in Carbondale in early July, and our little house will be in the eyes of many many people. As friends of Fuller we want that image to be well thought of, as the house has been let to run down far too much in my opinion.The city inspector said if it had been let go for 5 more years, it would have been the BULLDOZER!!! GADS!!! We cannot let that happen!! Well, thats all for now. Thanx in advance for any support, be it labor, materials, money, or good thoughts!! ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 19:40:57 MDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: "Ken G. Brown" Organization: BEST Online Subject: Re: Artifacts of RBF >Marcia Blackburn Bertland asks for name of publisher of The Artifacts of RBF: Since my last post I've also found the phone numbers: Garland Publishing 1000A Sherman Ave. Hamden, CT 06514 1-800-627-6273, fax 203-230-1186 -Ken G. Brown- kbrown@atc.edmonton.ab.ca ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 22:16:35 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Re: A Rehab Invitation X-cc: Synergetics List In-Reply-To: ; from "Kim Depaoli" at Apr 12, 95 3:47 pm Kim Depaoli writes: > > Greetings to all! My husband and myself (Pete & Kim) have just signed a > contract to lease Fuller's Dome in Carbondale IL. The dome is requiring some > rehab to pass city inspection and we are inviting any interesested parties to > assist in that rehab. The pay would be the satisfaction of having been > involved in the refurbishing of Fuller's dome that he built and lived in for > some years while a professor at SIU. The first weekend of the work will be > May the 5th. Please write us back at althea58@aol.com. Thanx and I love this > list! P.S. When the dome is finished and we are moved in (June 15) we will > have a dome party to celebrate and keep the dream alive. There is also a > Fuller Festival going on in Carbondale in early July, and our little house > will be in the eyes of many many people. As friends of Fuller we want that > image to be well thought of, as the house has been let to run down far too > much in my opinion.The city inspector said if it had been let go for 5 more > years, it would have been the BULLDOZER!!! GADS!!! We cannot let that > happen!! Well, thats all for now. Thanx in advance for any support, be it > labor, materials, money, or good thoughts!! > .- > Kim, Would you mind posting some details regarding the "Fuller Festival" scheduled for July in Carbondale? Thanks, Joe -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 09:04:00 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Kim Depaoli Subject: Re: A Rehab Invitation As regards the festival, it is called the Buckminster Fuller Centennial Celebration, and it is the kick-off for the 1995-2005 "Design Science Decade". The city of Carbondale is looking into making the house a Historic Place, but that due to the residential nature of the building, it is not elegible for the "Facade Loan Program". When I get more details of the festival, which will be in July, I'll quickly post them!!! Thanks for the interest! Kim ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 09:37:27 -0500 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: mailbag@MADISON.TEC.WI.US Subject: Dome Books Hi, I am new here, but have read much about R. Buckminister Fuller and especially domes. In fact, I own a conciderable library on each subject. Also, I have read the archives of the GEODESIC mailing list. My primary purpose today is to give my opinion on the best publication concerning geodesic math. I have found that the most readable book on the subject is "Dome Cookbook of Geodesic Geometry", by David Kruscke. It is a hand printed photocopied paperback, but very concise. Not only do you get chord factors, but also how they are derived. I tried looking up the author, but he seemed to have moved from Wild Rose, Wisconsin. I too, live in Southern Wisconsin snd was hoping to contact him about publishing a sequal. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 15:23:31 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Kim Depaoli Subject: Fuller Fest in Carbondale Southern Illinois Univesity-Carbondale IL. Organizer, William Perk. Retrospective Phase, July 1-11, a show and tell, hands on exploratory type things. Introspective Phase, July 12, Birthday,/memorial/centennial global comprehensive anticipatory design science party. Prospective phase, July 13-24 engage design scientists planning the launch of the design science decade 1995-2005, generating strategies to implement to help achieve the conversion from "killingry to livingry on a global scale during that decade.This celebration extends over 24 days to recognize each of the worlds time zones.This info is on a "Proposal" type form, as details come regarding the actual reality of this I will bring them out. Hope to see y'all down there! Come to our home and soak in some of the Bucky spirit in his dome!! Write us anytime, at Althea58.aolcom.Thanks, Kim + Pete ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 12:29:50 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Re: Dome Books In-Reply-To: ; from "mailbag@madison.tec.wi.us" at Apr 13, 95 9:37 am mailbag@madison.tec.wi.us writes: > > Hi, > I am new here, but have read much about R. Buckminister Fuller and > especially domes. In fact, I own a conciderable library on each subject. > Also, I have read the archives of the GEODESIC mailing list. > > My primary purpose today is to give my opinion on the best publication > concerning geodesic math. I have found that the most readable book on the > subject is "Dome Cookbook of Geodesic Geometry", by David Kruscke. > > It is a hand printed photocopied paperback, but very concise. Not only do > you get chord factors, but also how they are derived. > > I tried looking up the author, but he seemed to have moved from Wild Rose, > Wisconsin. I too, live in Southern Wisconsin snd was hoping to contact him > about publishing a sequal. > .- > David's book is hard to get. If you have it, would you mind posting the Table of Contents? If it's copyrighted, possibly he deposited 2 copies with the Library of Congress. -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 12:43:05 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: ON INTERNET X-To: kiyoshi@cpp.pha.pa.us Kiyoshi, Any idea when FIX will be plugged in to the Internet (WWW, etc)? Joe -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 14:33:54 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: GLOBAL PROBLEMS X-cc: Mission Earth ANNUAL COST OF SOLVING GLOBAL PROBLEMS P___R___O___B___L___E___M $ BILLIONS PROVIDE SAFE CLEAN WATER 50.0 ENERGY EFFICIENCY 33.0 RETIRE DEVELOPING NATION'S DEBT 30.0 PREVENT SOIL EROSION 24.0 PROVIDE SHELTER 21.0 ELIMINATE STARVATION & MALNOURISHMENT 19.0 PROVIDE RENEWABLE ENERGY 17.0 PROVIDE HEALTH CARE 15.0 STABILIZE POPULATION 10.5 PREVENT GLOBAL WARMING 8.0 PREVENT ACID RAIN 8.0 STOP DEFORESTATION 7.0 STOP OZONE DEPLETION 5.0 ELIMINATE ILLITERACY 5.0 _____ TOTAL 252.5 ANNUAL WORLD MILITARY EXPENDATURES 1,000.0 SOURCE: "DOING THE RIGHT THINGS" BY WORLD GAME INSTITUTE 3215 RACE STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19104 FON: 215-387-0220 FAX: 215-387-3009 E-MAIL: XTM00002@DUVM.OCS.DREXEL.EDU -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 21:39:47 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Marcia Blackburn Bertland Subject: Re: Artifacts of RBF X-To: "Ken G. Brown" In-Reply-To: <199504120356.XAA07435@bingnfs1.cc.binghamton.edu> Thanks Ken and everyone else for this info. - Marcia On Tue, 11 Apr 1995, Ken G. Brown wrote: > >Marcia Blackburn Bertland asks for name of publisher of The Artifacts of > RBF: > > > Garland Publishing > 1000A Sherman Ave. > Hamden, CT 06514 > > -Ken G. Brown- > kbrown@atc.edmonton.ab.ca > ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 22:04:33 -0400 Reply-To: B Cazador Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: B Cazador Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Subject: Monterey Domes OK So I read here how Monterey sold untested roof panels and went down the tubes...BUT surely not all their files and documentation is lost forever I have a 35' 3/8 dome with 2' kneewall and one extention. I figured to copy the extention parts and add 2 more. I did not figure on the local building code folks getting all bent out of shape when I built 3 extentions on my foundation and there is only one on my blueprints. Anyway, project on hold far too long. I would like to buy plans for 35' 3/8 dome 2' kneewall and 3 extentions. I know those plans are around somewhere. Did anyone out there build one and still have plans or does anyone know whereabouts of old Monterey Plans? Thanks in advance Bob Hunter (919) 528-3469 15600 Andover Ln Wake Forest NC 27587 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 20:42:12 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Re: ON INTERNET (fwd) Kiyoshi Kuromiya writes: > From cpp.critpath.org!critpath.org!kiyoshi Thu Apr 13 19:01:29 1995 > X-Sender: kiyoshi@critpath.org > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Length: 1085 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 22:03:15 -0300 > To: Joe Moore > From: Kiyoshi Kuromiya > Subject: Re: ON INTERNET > Cc: rich@critpath.org > X-Mailer: > > > Joe-- > We are operational now, as a handful of our users have discovered on > their own. We officially open our Web site later this month, but in the > meantime we have the basics installed and partly tested: gopher, FTP, > archie, WWW, etc. We would welcome any suggestions--regarding our Web site, > which will function primarily for AIDS treatment information, but will also > house some synergetics and Fuller databases and/or pointers to other sources > of that data. > > --Kiyoshi > > >Kiyoshi, > > > >Any idea when FIX will be plugged in to the Internet (WWW, etc)? > > > >Joe > > > > > > > >-- > > > >JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 > >850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 > >CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain . > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > __________________________ > > Kiyoshi Kuromiya > Project Director/Editor > Critical Path Project > > Email: kiyoshi@critpath.org > Hotline: (215) 545-2212 (24-hr) > Fax: (215) 735-2762 > Beeper: (800) 973-8084 > > .- > -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 09:23:49 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: GENI CATALOG X-cc: Mission Earth ITEMS AVAILABLE FROM 'GENI' (GLOBAL ENERGY NETWORK INTERNATIONAL) 4-95 1. COMPUTER ANIMATION, 10 min PC; major issues of a global electrical grid 2. WHAT IF..A NEW BLOBAL OPTION, 15 min video; Overview of GENI Initiative 3. A WIN-WIN SOLUTION, 15 min video; International Workshop 7-91 4. DYMAXION GLOBE, 4-color 6"globe folded from Dymaxion Map 5. DYMAXION MAP WITH GLOBAL ENERGY GRID OVERLAY, 4-color poster (34"x22") 6. GENI SOURCE DOCUMENT AND MAILING LIST, docs & tri-yearly newsletter 7. REPORTS, MAPS, PAPER SUBMISSIONS & GRAPHS, docs from Intl Workshop 7-91 8. GENI BROCHURES, packet of 50 brochures about GENI 9. GENI T-SHIRTS, 3-color map with grid 10. GENI KEYRING, blue & green marble globe P.O.Box 81565 E-Mail: GENI@CERF.NET Tel: 619-595-0139 San Diego, CA 92138 Fax: 619-595-0403 -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 17:20:27 GMT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Chris Fearnley Organization: Philadelphia's Complete Internet Provider Subject: Re: ON INTERNET Joe Moore (joemoore@CRUZIO.COM) wrote: > Kiyoshi, > Any idea when FIX will be plugged in to the Internet (WWW, etc)? I can ping them. And one can telnet in and login as "bbs" or "fix". They are also accepting anonymous ftp logins, but no files are available. If you have a shell account with them presumably you can access those features. They are refusing finger requests. So perhaps they don't have "all systems go" yet. The address is critpath.org. -- Christopher J. Fearnley | UNIX SIG Leader at PACS cjf@netaxs.com (finger me!) | (Philadelphia Area Computer Society) cfearnl@pacs.pha.pa.us | Design Science Revolutionary http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf | Explorer in Universe "Dare to be Naive" -- Bucky Fuller | Linux Advocate ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 13:20:27 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: STOP 5 GALLON FLUSH CONTENTS OF 'STOP THE FIVE GALLON FLUSH' BY MINIMUM COST HOUSING GROUP, 1973 1. FOREWORD BY NORBERT SCHOENAUER 2. INTRODUCTION a. Classification b. Pit Latrine c. Pour-Flush Toilet d. Composting Toilet e. Aquaprivy f. Septic Tank g. Bucket h. Cartage i. Waterborne 3. CATALOG a. Pit Latrines ( 3) b. Pour-Flush Latrines ( 4) c. Composting Toilets (21) d. Septic Tanks (16) e. Bucket Systems (14) <-------------See Fuller's toilet page 29 f. Cartage Systems ( 8) g. Waterborne Systems (16) h. Index to Catalog 4. COMPOSTING a. Introduction b. Gopuri Plans c. Minimus Plans 5. SELECTED READING Available from: Minimum Cost Housing Group School of Architecture McGill University 3480 University Street Montreal, Quebec H3A 2A7 Canada -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 16:15:53 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Netnews: geodesic buckminster (fwd) Net News Filter writes: > From woodstock.stanford.edu!db.stanford.edu!netnews Fri Apr 14 16:11:09 1995 > Date: Fri, 14 Apr 95 16:13:08 -0700 > From: Net News Filter > Message-Id: <9504142313.AA27184@Woodstock.Stanford.EDU> > To: joemoore@cruzio.com > Subject: Netnews: geodesic buckminster > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Subscription 1: geodesic buckminster > > Article: alt.fan.pratchett.41697 > Message-ID: <3mkula$eud@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au> > From: e3307976@student.uq.edu.au (Robert Whyte) > Subject: Re: Discworld = Nordic Mythology > Score: 100 > First 20 lines: > shaun@heavyd.demon.co.uk (Shaun Salter) writes: > >Buckminsterfullerene (or BuckyBalls) which is a sort of 3d-carbon ring name d after > >Buckminster Fuller, designer of the geodesic dome. I know lots of interesti ng facts > >like that. And no, I don't own an anorak. > Not only did I know that, but I currently have a 3 foot diameter model of > a buckyball hanging above my monitor. I also not only have an anorak, but > I'm wearing it as I type due to a VERY unseasonal cold day here in > Brisbane, Australia. Terry will confirm for me that it is usually > stinking hot here, so to have a cold day in April is almost unheard of. > Robert Whyte > Death is only a milestone - albeit one that is dropped > on you from a very great height - Terry Pratchett. > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > For help information, send email NetNews Filtering Server > with word 'help' in message body netnews@db.stanford.edu > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > .- > -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 20:38:28 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: BUCKY STUFF ON WEB Robert Anton Wilson (RAW) has some good Bucky stuff at the following site: http://www.nets.com/site/raw/fuller.html About R. Buckminster Fuller http://www.nets.com/site/raw/game.html About the World Game http://www.nets.com/site/raw/grids.html About Global Energy Network Intl Also, check out the World Game web site; they have added a lot of stuff. http://www.pacificrim.net/~wginwrep/WorldGame/WGI.html -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 08:49:34 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Re: GLOBAL PROBLEMS X-To: jwycoff@rain.org In-Reply-To: ; from "joyce@thinksmart.com" at Apr 15, 95 7:54 am joyce@thinksmart.com writes: > > Joe ... is it possible to reprint "The cost of doing the right thing." I > edit a newsletter for the Innovative Thinking Network and I think our > readers would love it. joyce > > ** For membership information send this request: > TO: info@thinksmart.com > SUBJECT: Information Request > > ******************************************************************* > Innovative Thinking Network ... > > Joyce Wycoff E-mail: joyce@thinksmart.com > 1324 State St., G-153, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 > Phone: 805-964-5363; FAX: 805-964-6383 > > > > .- > I believe the World Game Institute holds the copyright; contact them at: XTM00002@DUVM.OCS.DREXEL.EDU The actual text is available online at: HTTP://WWW.PACIFICRIM.NET/~WGINWREP/WORLDGAME/WGI.HTML -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 22:35:46 -0700 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Karl Erickson Subject: IRC @ #geodesic @ 7pm PST Sunday 4/16 X-To: synergetics-l@teleport.com to whomever gets this reminder in time.. the weekly Buckminster Fuller IRC conference is on Sunday, April 16th, at 7pm PST / 10pm EST. just go to irc and type: /join #geodesic. only a few people showed up at the last conference. this reminder is a bit late, so lag may prevent everyone from seeing it on time, but i hope that many of the people lurking on list geodesic or synergetics-l will show up. irc is easy to use, assuming you have access. if you don't have irc access, it is still possible to telnet to an irc server elsewhere - although i don't happen to know any public irc telnet addresses. if somebody else does, perhaps they can post some to the lists, or email me direct so i can use them in subsequent reminders. irc FAQs should be easy to find, and these should contain telnet addresses for those who want to look for them themselves. irc is a good place for casual chatting and getting-to-know-one-another, but it is also a good place to ask questions, get clarifications of hard-to-understand listposts, and organize projects. there are a number of graphics-related tasks that need volunteers, as well as a glossary project, and the continued development of Education Automation ideas. irc is a good place to share ideas about how to make synergetics work well for all those interested. hope to see you there. -k. erixon - seteos@netcom.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 05:41:13 -0400 Reply-To: TCN313 Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: TCN313 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Subject: Re: why haven't domes proliferated? I built twelve of them so watertight the moisture could not get out. The single strut system works. They look best in clusters of domes in the woods. They feel fantastic. You can fit a two story house (26 foot diameter 5/8 dome) in the back of a pickup truck. The frame goes up in days. The first complex was 1100 square feet with a pool. Cost less than $10,000. Financed with a boat loan from a savings and loan. You could build at $6/foot and finance at $20. I got one of the last issues of Life magazine that was a special on domes and went across the west looking at them. I could not find one dome builder who knew enough about business to be in business for two years. It was easier to learn the construction business than to teach economic development to hippies and others particularly when they were going out of their way to offend the local building inspectors. Most of the ones I saw were building temporary structures for temporary communities. Major discovery was that domes are not a solution to low-cost housing problems. True, they ae very low-cost. But low-income people want what middle-income people have -- and that does not mean weird housing. They are great for students, but the people building student housing were cramming more and more apartments into less and less space. Bucky forgot about the footprint. I went on to build lots of conventional houses in the best neighborhoods adn dream about domes. Great dreams. Wonderful disaster solution. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 09:37:16 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Re: Synergetics: Fibonacci/Golden Section X-To: synergetics-l@teleport.com In-Reply-To: <9TVkvAPABh107h@tacit.hacktic.nl>; from "Gerald de Jong" at Apr 16, 95 1:33 pm Gerald de Jong writes: > > can somebody take a moment to briefly explain what the Fibonacci Sequence > is about, where it resonates with nature, what's cool about it, how it > relates to the Golden Section? thanks in advance. > > -- > __gerald_de_jong__rotterdam__ "shapes in my dreams" > .- > The rectangle formed by any 2 parallel opposite struts in the icosa is a Golden Rectangle, ie. the ratio of the sides is a Fibonacci number (1.6:1). See 'Order in Space' pages 58-9 and 84-5. "Synergetics 1, pages 829-32; "Synergetics 2", pages 473-6 'A Fuller Explanation', pages 165-8 Since the icosa is the most energy efficient system, nature uses it to comstruct most things. One can find "5ness", the Golden Mean, and Fibonacci ratios everywhere: flowers, spirals, leafs, etc. -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 11:48:04 -0600 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Rick Bono Subject: GNU DOME 3.50 Available via FTP X-To: synergetics-l@teleport.com Version 3.50 of the GNU DOME program is now available for FTP. The program can be downloaded via FTP.teleport.com in the /pub/users/pdx4d/bin directory and is called dome350.zip. Users having Web access can find it by going to page: http://www.teleport.com/~pdx4d/rb_gall.html What's new in this version: -Added headers & spherical coordinates to PRN output file -Class constructor now passed a structure with input parameters -Removed interactive interface -Streamlined verbose output to only the basic topology -Added class I rotations for full sphere formation -Added portability ifdef's and defs to aid in porting to non-Borland C compilers...specifically UNIX/Linux. -Enabled Class II support. Program now calculates class II symmetry triangle data. -Enhanced DXF output by placing each polyhedron face on a different level. As before, DOME is released under the terms of the FSF General Public License. C++ Source code is included. Also, please note that my e-mail address has changed to rjbono@cris.com. Those having questions or comments should direct their inquiries there. Rick "Think Geodesically" Bono ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 18:05:54 -0500 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: chardhawk@NETS.COM Subject: Universe model This is it, folks- a synergetic metaphysical model of the universe in flux: ftp.teleport.com/in.coming/1universe.MOV.hqx You will need Quicktime (any platform), movie player, binhex decoder The model incorporates the 3 prime structural systems of Universe- tetrahedron, octahedron, icosahedron. It also incorporates the cube, which though not a stucture, is the only one of 5 regular polyhedra which allows an equipartition of space. Gerald de Jong's ingenious tensegrity jitterbug (cube) cell is the basis for this model. When 8 of these cells are clustered (nucleated cube) into the VE (vector equilibrium), radii and nucleus are present.They are displaced in the octa phase of the jitterbug transformation, allowing the octa to transform to the icosa which becomes, in an allspace array , an icomatrix. The model transforms from isomatrix (VE,IVM) to icomatrix with the chaotic "medio octahedron" phase in between. The static cartesian (cube)tension member grid is the common ground for both matrices. Notice in the model that the tips of the compression struts never leave the tension members. Even when the octa triangles transform to the icosa by spinning out along the 4-way axes, the strut tips stay on the cartesian grid. This is only possible because the edge lengths are compressing from 1 (unit edge-length) to .874032 continuously reducing the size of the triangles as their vertices move along the tension members. Because the unit edge-length icosa is incommensurate with the unit edge-length IVM, conforming the other Phi rectangle dimension of the icosa to the domain of the VE seemed like the next best solution. By allowing the icosa edge length to = .874032 a Phi ratio relationship has been established between the VE square face diagonal (rt2) and the icosa edge length(1.4142136/.874032=.618034, which is to 1(unit edge-length) as 1 is to Phi. The model incorporates both 3-way (XYZ) and 4-way axes of spin; 3-way in the transformation between VE & octa, 4-way between octa & icosa. This leads to speculation that 3-way spinning is wave propagative and 4-way, matter propagative. The only regular polyhedron omitted thus far from this model is the (pentagonal) dodecahedron. There may be a jitterbug-like transformation or pulsation between the icosa and dodeca which could lead to assymetrical growth. Comments and criticisms welcome. Richard Hawkins (chardhawk@nets.com) ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 09:26:53 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: geoman Subject: Re: Synergetics: Fibonacci/Golden Section X-To: synergetics-l@teleport.com In-Reply-To: <9504161647.AA11694@cris.com> In regards to the Fibonacci numbers and the Great Pyramid @ Giza... Their use of the Golden Ratio in the pyramid allows it to represent a very good approximation of the "squaring of the circle", a geometric construction found in so many ancient temples and works of art. That is, if the height of this pyramid from (missing but predictable) tip down to the center of the square base becomes the radius of a circle swung around the pyramid's tip, this circle has a circumference very nearly equal to the perimeter of the square base. (In fact, it can be taken further: try thinking of the square base as the base of a cube, and swing the circle into a sphere: cubing the sphere puzzle). This geometric technique is found worldwide in temple and sacred architecture/art design, very common because "squaring the circle" is symbolic of the fusion of incommensurate terms, and fusion, to ancient thinking, of "heaven and earth" referred to as their "hieros gamos" or "sacred marriage". Some kind of transformation there is indicated by the symbolism of the geometry. There's alot of reference to this kind of symbolic construction using mathematics (eg, Vedic temple and altar design), Plato's description of the ideal society of Magnesia (structured, actually in dymaxion fashion, with twelve precincts and temples around a central one). The use of symbolic mathematics in ancient arts, crafts, architecture, myth, song, fairy tales, etc, is an interesting study. If anyone's interested, I can suggest some good sources. Michael On Thu, 16 Feb 1995, Rick Bono wrote: > >can somebody take a moment to briefly explain what the Fibonacci Sequence > >is about, where it resonates with nature, what's cool about it, how it > >relates to the Golden Section? thanks in advance. > > > >-- > >__gerald_de_jong__rotterdam__ "shapes in my dreams" > > > > > > The real key to the Fibonacci Series is it is intimately realated to the > golden section.Generally a Fibonacci Series has the property that each term > is the sum of the preceding terms. That is: > a(0) a(1) a(2)...a(n-2) a(n-1) a(n)... > is a Fibonacci series if: > a(n) = a(n-1) + a(n-2) > > All Fibonacci series have the property that ratios of successive terms > approach Phi (the Golden Mean) in the limit. This series is connected with > certain natural processes such as plant growth, and is also used in the > proportion of architecture. > > An interesting place that Phi, a Fibonacci series and pi are found is with > the proportions of the Great Pyramid of Cheops. Here's an example of a one > half octahedron (though not regular) which embodies these proportions > directly. Using the ancient Egyptian unit of measure, the ell, the Great > pyramid has a hypotenuse of 89 ells and a semibase of 55 ells. Using the > equations above the following F series is generated: > 1 1 2 3 4 5 12 21 34 55 89... > the ratio of successive terms approximates the golden mean (i.e. 89/55 = > 1.619). Also the right traingle within the pyramid has sides 1(i.e. distance > from center to base edge), sqrt(Phi)(i.e. the height), Phi(hypotenuse). This > is the only right triangle with sides in a geometric series just as the > 3,4,5 triangle is the only triangle having an arithmetic series. 4/sqrt(Phi) > approximates PI. This is also derived from dividing the Pyramid's perimeter > by twice its height. > > I have often wondered why the builders of the pyramid used these > proportions. Were they trying to encode knowledge into their structure? Are > these proportions significant in maintaining structural integrity? Why > didn't they build a regular half octahedron instead? Is the Phi based > proportion merely more aesthetically pleasing? Did they have a familiarity > with Synergetics? Hmmmmmm.... > > Rick "Walk like an Eygptian" Bono > > ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 17:32:05 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Re: your mail X-To: Roy A Shaw In-Reply-To: <9504171917.AA14844@nrc1.inel.gov>; from "Roy A Shaw" at Apr 17, 95 1:17 pm Roy A Shaw writes: > > Joe, > > I am new to the b.l.geodesic newsgroup, so I > don't understand how things work. I often > see Tables of Contents posted from relevant > books; however, often those books are out of > print. (Domebook 2, for example). Can > you recommend a book that goes stepwise > through dome math? I have tried writing to > BFI, but got no response. > > Thanks, > > Roy Shaw (zoo@inel.gov) > .- > Roy, See if you can find 'Fuller's Earth' by R.J.Brenneman and/or 'A Fuller Explanation' by A.C.Edmondson through your local inter-library loan service. The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI@AOL.COM) has 'Bucky for Beginners' & 'A Fuller Explanation' available through their catalog. Domebooks 1 & 2 are good, but hard to get--maybe someone in Buckyland could help you. Check out the Geodesic FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) at http://www.netaxs.com/people/cjf/fuller-faq.html There hasn't been a book about how to build domes written for quite a while now. I remember there were some "how to" articles, like in Popular Science. You've pointed out the fact that right now it's hard to get info on building domes. Joe -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 00:38:22 -0400 Reply-To: JustWINK Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: JustWINK Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Subject: Re: Synergetics: Fibonacci/Golden Section Recent posts have mentioned the use of phi (the golden mean) in the pyramid of giza. I don't really want to start a flame session here but... The use of phi in the building of the great pyramid is a subject of some speculation by fringe authors and new-age types, but is not taken seriously by those who actually study the real history of the structure, just as "pyramid power" and sharpening razor blades is not. If anything, this is a great example of how easy it is to find mathematical relationships of various sorts by looking hard enough. Various authors have found a great variety of mathematical messages in the supposed proportions of the pyramid(s), including messages about astronomical distances, etc. Don't forget that the casing stones of the Giza pyramid are almost all gone, and its true dimensions must be approximated. As I recall, what may well be found in it is pi. Many hold this to have some sort of cosmic significance, citing that the egyptians did not know the value of pi or whatever, but it has been speculated that they defined the base of structures by rolling a wheel of a known diameter, thus implimenting pi without "knowing" it. I can find further information about this if there is interest. Just wanted some of you to hear part of another viewpoint. I would certainly welcome information of quality concerning any issues I've referenced. Wink Charles E. Peck ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 06:57:50 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: geoman Subject: Egyptian pyramid geometry X-To: JustWINK In-Reply-To: <199504180820.EAA06177@panix4.panix.com> Hi JustWINK, I saw your post about the Egyptian pyramid references with respect to its proportions, the appearance of pi, "pyramid power", etc. I personally, like you, am not a proponent by any means of such "power", but I think that understanding of ancient Egypt is so confused that many people are throwing out the baby with the bath water. It has been shown pretty clearly that the proportions of the so-called Great pyramid can be determined by the casing stones which do exist, and that its mathematics is quite interesting. I saw that TV show too about how pi might have been incorporated unconsciously; it was full of now-debunked myths about the pyramids as tombs and condescension towards these brilliant ancient people whose understanding of mathematics and the natural sciences (ever read about their medical abilities?) just perpetuated ideas rooted in the middle ages. The appearance of the golden ratio throughout Egyptian art, crafts and architecture have been well established by modern scholars beyond any doubt. Its appearance in the proportions of the pyramid are not accidental either. And to understand the Egyptian (and ancient, in general) methods of employing mathematical symbolism in their creations, including language and art, takes deeper study than tv and popular notions. A good book to find is "SERPENT IN THE SKY: THE HIGH WISDOM OF ANCIENT EGYPT" by John-Anthony West. Also, like many of us, learn to read hierogylyphs and then go directly to the mathematical (and other) texts and you will find a much different picture than the Cecil B. DeMille projections of our own ignorance on those of the past. The study of egyptian mathematics, as well as that of subsequent civilizations who inherited it, has direct relevance to synergetics studies. Knowledge of the Platonic volumes is older than Greece and Pythagoras (who studied in Egypt 22 years), and the study of ancient monuments, cleared of prejudices, yields rich insights into the codes of sacred design (there are great WWW pages re Hindu Vedic temple/altar construction based on geometry). It's not necessary to mix it all up with "pyramid" and other "powers", etc. The geometry alone is brilliant! We admire the books of Keith Critchlow (Order In Space, etc) but did you ever see his Order in Time ? Respected scholars now recognize that ancient designers and architects used strict and symbolic geometry very consciously. The reference to "now wanting to start a flame, but..." ??!!?? Is that what we do with ideas we disagree with? "Sacred architecture is not, as our time chooses to see it, a 'free' art, developed from 'feelings' and 'sentiment', but it is an art strictly tied by and developed from the laws of geometry." -- Fredrik Macody Lund Michael Schneider ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 07:11:12 LOCAL Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Rick Bono Organization: cris.com Subject: GNU DOME 3.50 Available for FTP Version 3.50 of the GNU DOME program is now available for FTP. The program can be downloaded via FTP.teleport.com in the /pub/users/pdx4d/bin directory and is called dome350.zip. Users having Web access can find it by going to page: http://www.teleport.com/~pdx4d/rb_gall.html What's new in this version: -Added headers & spherical coordinates to PRN output file -Class constructor now passed a structure with input parameters -Removed interactive interface -Streamlined verbose output to only the basic topology -Added class I rotations for full sphere formation -Added portability ifdef's and defs to aid in porting to non-Borland C compilers...specifically UNIX/Linux. -Enabled Class II support. Program now calculates class II symmetry triangle data. -Enhanced DXF output by placing each polyhedron face on a different level. As before, DOME is released under the terms of the FSF General Public License. C++ Source code is included. Also, please note that my e-mail address has changed to rjbono@cris.com. Those having questions or comments should direct their inquiries there. Rick "Think Geodesically" Bono ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 12:31:19 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Michael Salmons Subject: Re: Egyptian pyramid geometry X-To: geoman@panix.com Michael, My reference to "not wanting to start a flame, but..." meant essentially that I would prefer highly emotional responses with little content not be posted to the group. This is what I personally consider "flaming" to be about. I have seen this contaminate newsgroups and do not wish it to happen here. As the internet is quite free in nature, I have no objection to what people say to me personally, but I do feel that such silly responses are best kept private. I am not classifying your response as being of this type and welcome it. I am no authority on the pyramids or Egyptology, and attempted to convey this. I am though, tired of anecdotal tales and horrid pseudo- science being propagated about both pyramids and the golden mean, and wished to put in a few words from a perspective which, I hope, remains properly skeptical of such claims. I will consider your post and compare it to some of the information that I do have on the subject(s) and may get back with you. (Have you read Martin Gardners brief article on "the cult of the G. M."?) As a declared skeptic, I struggle to maintain an appropriate balance of perspective when considering such information. I'm sure you will agree that there is a valid need for the representation of critical thought within such areas as synergetic math. I also love to collect little tidbits of belief that I can present to my less-than-skeptical associates upon occasion, such as my beliefs that: *Early in this century, a martian killed an earthling. *The lines on the hand can be predictors of the future. ... and some others that I can't recall this moment. Perhaps our exchange will result in another such item for my list. I have not seen the 2nd book you mention by Critchlow, but have sent him my own book, which is to some extent patterned after ORDER IN SPACE. Haven't yet heard back. I do have some material on sacred geometry, but it is so far somewhat outside of my primary areas of interest. I'll certainly try very hard to keep an open mind to it, and will investigate some of the sources you have mentioned. Do send along the WWW sites you mentioned. I am very busy right now and am not sure how soon this might happen, so bear with me. Also, please feel free to quote from this post, should you so desire. I don't want to convey the wrong impression. And the message that I am always anxious to convey: ** skepticism is NOT dis-belief ** Let's keep in touch, Wink ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 10:14:07 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: ORDER IN TIME In-Reply-To: ; from "geoman" at Apr 18, 95 6:57 am Could you give us some idea what Critchlow's 'Order in Time" is about? Maybe the table of contents or a brief summary. (Your "book report" will be graded on the "pass-fail" method :-) ) -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 12:55:03 -0400 Reply-To: JustWINK Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: JustWINK Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Subject: Re: Egyptian pyramid geometry I have responded privately to Michael concerning my post about egyptian geometry and pyriamids. I must apologize for a post that was not well thought out. I am not prepared to categorically state that those who study these matters reject the inclusion of phi in the proportions of the structure, and the matter concerning pi is strictly anecdotal, the very type of information I am objecting to. My comment about flaming refers to the practice of posting emotional and/or content-free messages to the entire group, when such messages, I believe, should remain private. Better yet, non-existent. My primary desire was simply to separate the issue from the scores of books and such that are simply not based on good information, and these are many. I will follow with some interest any threads relating to how math was utilized in the pyramids and the issue of the golden mean in general. I remain, however, a skeptic regarding many of the issues that surround these matters. I will close with a message that I take every opportunity to convey: *** skepticism is NOT dis-belief *** Thanks and keep up the fascinating posts! Wink ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 10:21:05 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: CRITCHLOW In-Reply-To: ; from "Michael Salmons" at Apr 18, 95 12:31 pm Do you have Mr. Critchlow's mailing address and/or e-mail address? Also, are you aware of what he's doing lately--where he works, what he's working on, etc.? -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 01:41:58 GMT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: geoman Subject: Geometry and Sacred Architecture WWW Pages From: Michael Schneider I've received a number of requests about the Web pages concerning Vedic and Buddhist architecture and their basis in geometry. This URL will connect you with the home page for it. Look for the graphic titled "Scaffold WWW Architecture Project" and click on one of the links (Vedic or Buddhist geometry, as well as that of Vitruvius, Alberti, Martini, Baldo, and others.) http://dolphin.upenn.edu:80/~georgep/ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 19:03:32 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: COSMOS279@AOL.COM Subject: COSMOS LEARNING NETWORK An Idea Whose Time Has Come: I noticed that there are some people on this list who are interested in education either from a professional, parentalor student's point of view. I'm sure you all realize the importance of education and children in R. Buckminster Fuller's philosophy (Read-Education Automation -available from Buckminster Fuller Institute) If anyone is interested in discussing general educational issues join the COSMOS learning network simply by requesting that you be added to the COSMOS mailing list. email -Address < COSMOS279@aol.com> Are you a frustrated educator thinking about leaving the profession. Up until last year, I was becoming more and more frustrated with the teaching profession until I started doing some soul-searching. For this reason and having been inspired with the self education of R. Buckminster Fuller, I founded SOIL, the Society of Independent Learners. I now publish my own magazine- HARVEST - and am the coordinator of a futuristic experiment in education called COSMOS. If you are interested read further. I hope you will join me in this endeavor. I truly believe it is an idea whose time has come. This is a mailing of COSMOS - "The Universe is our campus." Thus will SOIL members be introduced to all new mailings on the internet.With your permission your articles can be posted and received by anyone in the world. //"Home is where the heart is;\\ school is where the mind is; \\work is where the need is."// COSMOS279@aol.com is the Internet Address of the "*College" of Synthallogical Management & Omnicomprehensive Studies - It is an experimental educational system inspired by the educational philosophy of R. Buckminster Fuller who predicted home learning as the wave of the future. "We offer more than "degrees" of learning --we promote an omnicomprehensive understanding of the whole Universe. *By "College" we mean any place (physical, cybernetic, or metaphysical) two or more people gather together and there is an "I - Thou" exchange of authentic knowledge. How do we ".... make the total world's resources which now serve only 43 percent, serve 100 percent of humanity through competent complex design science." (Buckminster Fuller, "Education Automation", 1962) This service is provided by SOIL - The Society of Independent Learners. Our purpose is to provide free or low cost educational opportunities to any world citizens hoping to educate themselves. Periodically members receive bulletins and E- mail from other SOIL members. If you have anything you would like to offer, whether it be an article, invention, anecdote, poem, short story, reseach paper, methematical ideas, news, art, whatever- please send it to this address and we will send a copy to all our members. With your permission some of these may be selected for inclusion in HARVEST Magazine. In turn you will receive responses to your offerings in a stimulating ongoing conversation. If you would like to receive our mailings let us know. Check your E-Mail daily as we expect heavy response to this program. The "College" of Synthallogical Management & Omnicomprehensive Studies is dedicated to promoting a whole systems approach to problem solving. We believe that all areas of knowledge must be coordinated in order to make better decisions. Our educational philosophy was outlined in the first issue of HARVEST Magazine. This year we celebrate 2 very important events, the 25th anniversary of the first Earthday on April 22, and the 100th anniversary of the birth of R. Buckminster Fuller. Long appreciated by those who knew him personally or through his writing, Fuller is only now starting to receive the acclaim of the general public. Hundreds of internet users are flashing messages about this complex geniuses life work at lightning fast speeds to all points of the globe. In the 1950's Fuller predicted that something like the internet would become possible. He also predicted that education as we know it would be completely revolutionized by the end of this century. We as educators must be aware of these changes and become instumental in their development. This is too important a decision to be left up to politicians and bottom line financial experts. The school as a "building" is rapidly becoming an anachronism as television and video tape are bringing lectures and discussions produced by the world's greatest teachers to every isolated corner of the planet. Our role as teachers is not to compete with automation but to embrace it as our greatest tool ever. The "cybernetic" classroom along with television, even though it may now seem an elaborate video game is nearer than some would like to believe. We need to get involved in its development before the seven largest banks in the world own us too. Here is one area where the little guy still has a chance to do something big and important. Your comments please! //"The mind is a thing unto itself;\\ can make a Hell of Heav'n, \\Heav'n out of Hell." John Milton// Jim Bonaparte Teacher Society of Independent Learners- founder- HARVEST Magazine-editor- COSMOS coordinator 279 Summer Street Brockton, MA 02402-4165 COSMOS279@aol.com (508)-584-3752 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 19:43:55 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: geoman Subject: Re: CRITCHLOW In-Reply-To: <199504181830.OAA26380@panix4.panix.com> On Tue, 18 Apr 1995, Joe Moore wrote: > Do you have Mr. Critchlow's mailing address and/or e-mail address? Also, are > you aware of what he's doing lately--where he works, what he's working on, > etc.? > Here is some information I have. Others can add more. Last summer, Dr. Critchlow took part in a two-week course in Crestone, Colorado, a collaboration between his KARIOS Institute and The Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture. Here is what the brochure said about him and his course -- Dr. Keith Critchlow is an internationally known author of many books including "Order In Space", "Time Stands Still" and "Islamic Pattern as a Cosmological Art". He is Director of Research at The Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture, and the Director of The Visual Islamic and Traditional Arts Department, which is now also at The Institute. He is a founder member and Director for Studies for KAIROS, and founder member and president of the Temenos Academy. He was also architect to the Krishnamurti Centre in the UK and The Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medicine, Puttaparti, India. His course -- THE SACRED SCIENCE OF GEOMETRY AND PROPORTION: Taught from a cosmological and an analytical point of view, encompassing many guiding themes which can be identified in all the major traditions of the world, celebrating both inner and outer aspects of creation. A practical and theoretical course in both two and three dimensions. This will be a new programme of Keith's latest research. Other courses during the 2 weeks -- ISLAMIC PATTERN PAINTING with Paul Marchant TRADITIONAL COSMOLOGY AND THE NUMERICAL BASIS OF ANCIENT SCIENCE with John Michell. (Incidentally, John wrote the preface called "Geometry and the Quest for Reality" for my book A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO CONSTRUCTING THE UNIVERSE). AN INTRODUCTION TO ICON PAINTING with Dr. Stephan Rene I don't know if there will be another workshop this summer, but here's the address for KAIROS -- KAIROS Ms. Amanda Critchlow 21 Broomehouse Road London SW6 3QU UNITED KINGDOM I suggest everyone interested in Keith Critchlow's work write KAIROS and ask for back issues of the worksheets available. Very valuable information concerning the Platonic volumes, "sacred" geometry and other related topics you won't find elsewhere. In a recent post, after mentioning Order In Space, I referred to Order In Time. OOPS! I meant Time Stands Still. Mea culpa. Sorry. I also mentioned THE FIBONACCI ASSOCIATION. Here's there address. You will find books with more Fibonacci, Golden Section, and recursive sequences information than can ever be digested by one mortal in one lifetime -- The Fibonacci Association University of Santa Clara Santa Clara, CA 95053 I also mentioned the CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS Catalog, which is intended for math teachers, and contains many geometry-related materials you will find instructive and fun. Call 1-800-624-0822 and ask for their (free) catalog. I don't know the exact address for The Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture. Prince Charles has longtime been a student of geometry and Dr. Critchlow is his personal tutor. The Institute is involved with some very interesting projects. They're located in Kensington Gardens in London. A friend who attended Dr. C's course gave me a copy of her notes -- over 100 pages! Michael Schneider (geoman@panix.com) "Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls." -- Plato "Wisdom should be cherished as a means of traveling from youth to old age, for it is more lasting than any other posession." -- Bias of Priene (c.570 BC, one of the Seven Sages of ancient Greece) ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 08:54:07 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: "David C. Olson" Subject: Re: COSMOS LEARNING NETWORK In-Reply-To: <199504192316.TAA10274@mailbox.syr.edu> Greetings and felicitations, Am an elementary educator in Syracuse NY who has been monitoring the GEODES list for about a month. It gives me pleasure to "tune in " to the conversations (email) on the NET. I am happy to see the recent posting regarding COSMOS LEARNING NETWORK. Grassroots efforts such as Mr. B's are a joy to my mind's eye. Also, the sincere efforts of many of you fine persons to promote operational geometry is also very pleasing. My respects and thought support go out to you all. Thank you for your time and considertion in reading this. Respectfully, dcolson ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 16:20:04 GMT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: World Game Institute Organization: Drexel University Subject: WGI Workshop Schedule WORLD GAME INSTITUTE WORKSHOPS SCHEDULE 1995 Schedule as of April 20, 1995 We invite you to visit an upcoming event. Contact us for more information. World Game Institute Phone: (215) 387-0220 3215 Race Street Fax: (215) 387-3009 Philadelphia, PA 19104-2597 Email: xtm00002@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu World Wide Web: http://www.pacificrim.net/~wginwrep/WorldGame/WGI.html * Environmental Workshop ** Diversity Workshop + Lecture Apr. 20 Morris Hills High School, Rockaway, NJ Apr. 20-22 Iowa Dept. of Education, Des Moines, IA* Apr. 21 Iowa Dept. of Nat'l Resources,Des Moines, IA+ Apr. 24 Meadow Park Middle School, Beaverton, OR Apr. 25 Motorola, Schaumburg, IL Apr. 25 Bainbridge HS, Bainbridge Island, WA Apr. 26 Southern Regional HS, Manahawkin, NJ Apr. 27 Museum of Disc. & Sci., Ft. Lauderdale, FL* Apr. 28 Vernon Township School, Vernon, NJ* May 3 West Morris Central HS, Chester, NJ* May 4 Columbia School, Berkeley Heights, NJ May 4 Scottsdale Leadership, Scottsdale, AZ May 6 Pittsburgh Children's Museum, Pittsburgh, PA May 9 Motorola, Germany May 9 Edmonds Comm. College, Edmonds, WA May 9 Hubbard Middle School, Plainfield, NJ May 10 Maxson Middle School, Plainfield, NJ May 11 Mountlake Terrace HS, Mountlake Terr., WA May 11 John A. Carusi Junior School, Cherry Hill, NJ May 12 West Orange High School, West Orange, NJ** May 16 Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, PA May 16 Plainfield High School, Plainfield, NJ** May 18,19 Roxbury High School, Succasunna, NJ** May 24 Montgomery High School, Skillman, NJ May 24 Lynden High School, Lynden, WA May 25 Edison Intermediate School, Westfield, NJ May 25,26 Paramus HS, Paramus, NJ** June 1 Passaic Co. Votech HS, Wayne, NJ June 8 Columbia School, Berkeley Heights, NJ June 10 Discovery Program, U. of PA, Philadelphia, PA June 13 Motorola, Schaumburg, IL June 27 Youth Envir. Summit, Loveland, CO* July 3 Motorola, Singapore July 10 New Jersey Governor's School, Pomona, NJ* July 10 U of DE Governor's School, Newark, DE July 11 Motorola, Schaumburg, IL July 14-16 GENI, San Diego, CA July 24 U. of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC+ July 27 Junior League of Indianapolis, Indy, IN* Aug. 6 Principals' Center Summer Institute, NJ Aug. 8 Motorola, Latin America Aug. 13-15 Presby. Peacemaking Program, HempsteadNY** Aug. 23 Rockford College, Rockford, IL Aug. 26,27 Explora Science Center, Albuquerque, NM Aug. 26,27 AIESEC Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia Sept. 5 Motorola, Singapore Sept. 12 Motorola, Schaumburg, IL Sept. 19 Cottey College, Nevada, MO+ Sept. 23 Nat'l Lutheran Leader. Conf, Minneapolis, MN Sept. 29 Pittsburgh Children's Museum, Pittsburgh, PA Oct. 10 Motorola, Schaumburg, IL Oct. 13,14 Boonsboro Ruritan Club, Lynchburg, VA Oct. 17 IODA Conference, Eilat, Israel Oct. 18 Anacortes High School, Anacortes, WA Oct. 31 Motorola, Taiwan Nov. 2 Park Middle School, Scotch Plains, NJ Nov. 3 Terrill Middle School, Scotch Plains, NJ Nov. 16 Leadership Kentucky, Elizabethtown, KY ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 14:07:06 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: BUCKMINSTER FULLER ARCHIVES CONTENTS OF R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER ARCHIVES (See pages xv-xvi of 'Inventions') A. CHRONOFILE: 750 VOLUMES 12x10x5" (all letters, sketches, doodles, etc.) B. DRAWINGS & BLUEPRINTS (see 'Artifacts of R.Buckminster Fuller') C. MODELS D. MOVIES AND VIDEO TAPES E. WIRE AND TAPE RECORDINGS OF BUCKY'S PUBLIC LECTURES F. ARTICLES AND BOOKS ABOUT RBF (100,000) G. POSTERS ANNOUNCING BUCKY'S LECTURES H. AWARDS, MEMENTOS, T-SHIRTS, ETC. I. ROUGH DRAFTS OF ALL BOOKS AND ARTICLES BY RBF J. 30,000 PHOTOGRAPHS, 10,000 4x5" NEGATIVES AND 20,000 35mm SLIDES K. BUCKY'S COLLECTION OF RELEVANT BOOKS AND ARTICLES BY OTHERS L. FINANCIAL RECORDS, TAX RETURNS, ETC. M. INDEXES TO ARCHIVE MATERIALS N. DRAFTING TOOLS, TYPEWRITERS, COMPUTERS, FURNITURE, FILE CABINETS, ETC. O. PICTURES, PAINTINGS, DIPLOMAS, CARTOONS, ETC. P. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA (See 'Basic Biography') Q. INVENTORY OF WORLD RESOURCES, HUMAN TRENDS AND NEEDS R. WORLD GAME RECORDS CONTACT THE BUCKMINSTER FULLER INSTITUTE (BFI@AOL.COM) FOR FURTHER INFO -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 17:10:05 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Walt Lockley Subject: Rehab of Carbondale Residence Hello all, I'm planning on driving down to Carbondale on 5/6 to help Kim and Pete Depaoli on Bucky's house,. Anybody joining us? :-) Ideally I'd like to do some re-photography of the three or four photographs of the Bucky house that appeared in Ideas & Integrities, one exterior and a couple interior shots. I remember seeing a few other photos of this house. What's the most thorough doumentation on this house? Is there anybody within the sound of my voice who has scraps of unpublished 'lore' about Bucky's building it and living in it? The Alden Hatch book indicates that Anne Fuller thought it was a long way to get to St. Louis, and when you got there, well, you were in St. Louis. Walt klockley@delphi.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 17:13:22 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Walt Lockley Subject: EPCOT A while ago somebody asked who had designed the EPCOT dome. According to Martin Pawley biography, the alt Disney 'Spaceship Earth' sphere was designed by a former student of Fuller's named Peter Floyd, who had worked on the Ford Rotunda and the Expo 67 dome. Walt klockley@delphi.com ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 14:28:25 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Re: WGI Workshops X-cc: xtm00002@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu In-Reply-To: ; from "World Game Institute" at Apr 21, 95 4:20 pm When are you going to start having Energy workshops (renewable vs nonrenewable)? I notice that in your games you hand out x amount of energy, but you don't distinguish between renewable and nonrenewable. And during the course of the game you don't gradually reduce the amount of nonrenewable energy available, forcing the players to face the issue of developing renewable energy. -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 17:00:42 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: INVENTIONS CONTENTS OF 'INVENTIONS' BY R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER, 1983 INTRODUCTION: GUINEA PIG "B" 1. STOCKADE: BUILDING STRUCTURE 06-28-27 2. STOCKADE: PNEUMATIC FORMING PROCESS 07-05-27 3. 4D HOUSE 04-01-28 4. DYMAXION CAR 12-07-37 5. DYMAXION BATHROOM 11-05-40 6. DYMAXION DEPLOYMENT UNIT (SHEET) 03-07-44 7. DYMAXION DEPLOYMENT UNIT (FRAME) 06-13-44 8. DYMAXION MAP 01-29-46 9. DYMAXION HOUSE (WICHITA) 03-16-46 10. GEODESIC DOME 06-29-54 11. PAPERBOARD DOME 04-14-59 12. PLYDOME 09-22-59 13. CATENARY (GEODESIC TENT) 11-24-59 14. OCTET TRUSS 05-30-61 15. TENSEGRITY 11-13-62 16. SUBMARISLE (UNDERSEA ISLAND) 03-12-63 17. ASPENSION (SUSPENSION BUILDING) 07-07-64 18. MONOHEX (GEODESIC STRUCTURES) 08-03-65 19. LAMINAR DOME 08-31-65 20. OCTA SPINNER 03-17-65 21. STAR TENSEGRITY (OCTAHEDRAL TRUSS) 11-28-67 22. ROWING NEEDLES (WATERCRAFT) 08-18-70 23. GEODESIC HEXA-PENT 05-14-74 24. FLOATABLE BREAKWATER #1 02-04-75 25. NON-SYMMETRICAL TENSEGRITY 02-18-75 26. FLOATING BREAKWATER #2 01-30-79 27. TENSEGRITY TRUSS 06-17-80 28. HANGING STORAGE SHELF UNIT 03-22-83 APPENDIX: HONORARY DOCTORATE CITATIONS (43) 1. N.Carolina State Col of Agri & Eng Raleigh, N.Carolina 06-06-54 2. University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 06-11-55 3. Washington University St.Louis, Missouri 06-12-57 4. Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Illinois 06-17-59 5. Rollins College Winter Park, Florida 02-22-60 6. Clemson College Clemson, S.Carolina 05-30-64 7. University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico 06-05-64 8. University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado 08-22-64 9. Monmouth College Monmouth, Illinois 04-24-65 10. Long Island University Brooklyn, New York 06-07-66 11. San Jose State College San Jose, California 06-10-66 12. California Coll of Arts & Crafts Oakland, California 06-11-66 13. Clarkson College of Technology Potsdam, New York 06-04-67 14. Ripon College Ripon, Wisconsin 05-19-68 15. Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire 06-16-68 16. New England College Henniker, New Hampshire 10-10-68 17. University of Rhode Island Kingston, Rhode Island 10-14-68 18. University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Wisconsin 01-26-69 19. Boston College Boston, Massachusetts 06-02-69 20. Bates College Lewiston, Maine 07-04-69 21. Minneapolis Coll of Art & Design Minneapolis, Minnesota 05-08-70 22. Park College Parkville, Missouri 05-24-70 23. Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts 06-06-70 24. Colombia College Chicago, Illinois 06-12-70 25. Wilberforce University Wilberforce, Ohio 09-28-70 26. Southeastern Massachusetts Univ N.Dartmouth, Massachusetts 06-13-71 27. Grinnell College Grinnell, Iowa 05-24-72 28. Emerson College Boston, Massachusetts 06-04-72 29. University of Maine Orono, Maine 06-05-72 30. Nasson College Springvale, Maine 05-20-73 31. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York 05-25-73 32. Beaver College Glenside, Pennsylvania 05-27-73 33. University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana 04-27-74 34. Saint Joseph's College Philadelphia,Pennsylvania 05-13-74 35. University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia,Pennsylvania 05-20-74 36. Pratt Institute Brooklyn, New York 05-31-74 37. McGill University Montreal, Canada 06-05-74 38. Hobart & William Smith Colleges Geneva, New York 06-01-75 39. Hahnemann Medical Col & Hosp of PA Philadelphia,Pennsylvania 09-26-78 40. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville,Illinois 06-08-79 41. Alaska Pacific University Anchorage, Alaska 12-07-79 42. Roosevelt University Chicago, Illinois 01-03-80 43. Georgian Court College Lakewood, New Jersey 05-17-80 (NO INDEX) -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 18:19:39 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Re: Rehab of Carbondale Residence In-Reply-To: ; from "Walt Lockley" at Apr 21, 95 5:10 pm Walt Lockley writes: > > Hello all, > > I'm planning on driving down to Carbondale on 5/6 to help Kim and > Pete Depaoli on Bucky's house,. Anybody joining us? :-) > > Ideally I'd like to do some re-photography of the three or four > photographs of the Bucky house that appeared in Ideas & Integrities, > one exterior and a couple interior shots. I remember seeing a few > other photos of this house. > > What's the most thorough doumentation on this house? Is there > anybody within the sound of my voice who has scraps of unpublished > 'lore' about Bucky's building it and living in it? The Alden > Hatch book indicates that Anne Fuller thought it was a long way to > get to St. Louis, and when you got there, well, you were in St. Louis. > > Walt > klockley@delphi.com > .- > See 'World Design Science Decade 65-75 Document 2', page 88 and 'Artifacts of RBF Volume 4', pages 32-5. -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 23:55:25 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Kim Depaoli Subject: Re: Rehab of Carbondale Resid... Walt, Thanks for mentioning the project again, I planned on writing to all myself also as some help is needed. The work that will go on the weekend of May 5/6 is the fence and installation of gates. Not a small project. There is also some leak damage on the inside, we will probably not get to that until the following weekend. The city is most concerned with the fence issue first, so that is what is going to go on first. We are going to make that dome our home, and live in it keeping the dream alive, while maintaining the feeling of a home. It may someday be strictly an historical place, but until then we have taken up the cause and are grateful for the opportunity to live in such a place. We will make the dome available for lots of visiting in a controlled manner. It's like owning the Mona Lisa and hiding it in the basement. NO! We are very excited about the whole thing and welcome any assistance that may become available. All domesters are invited to the housewarming sometime in June. Thanks to all and write us for more info if desired at Althea58@aol.com. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 07:41:36 -0400 Reply-To: AMKALENAK Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: AMKALENAK Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Subject: building domes geodesically I have been working on geodesemetry for about 15 years. In my reseaches, I have attempted to canvas the current state of dome technology. Most of what I found, to borrow a phrase, was "way over-built" or used conventional building trades technology. In much of his writing and efforts Fuller worked toward ephemerization, doing more with less. However the spirit of this quest seems to evade most dome builders . Where are the environmental valves; the city enclosing weatherbreaks of his dreams? This is where I'm headed. Fuller gave us the geometry but he left out details as to enlosing these magnificent structures, simply and elegantly. This is what I see as the obstacle to the proliferation of domes. Remember Ephemerization. ps. What ever became of the Buckminster Fuller Institute ? ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 12:09:13 -0500 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Chuck Stoffregen Subject: Re: GNU DOME 3.50 Available for FTP >Version 3.50 of the GNU DOME program is now available for FTP. The program >can be downloaded via FTP.teleport.com in the /pub/users/pdx4d/bin directory >and is called dome350.zip. Users having Web access can find it by going to >page: > >http://www.teleport.com/~pdx4d/rb_gall.html >Rick "Think Geodesically" Bono Rick, Was this supposed to be opened with a Macintosh? I seem to need help in "unzipping" the file. Thanks Chuck Stoffregen Computer Teacher Madison Area Technical College cas1276@madison.tec.wi.us Synergy - Behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken seperately. R.B. Fuller ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 15:19:43 -0700 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Karl Erickson Subject: IRC @ #geodesic X-To: synergetics-l@teleport.com gerald de jong and i have discussed a change in the weekly bucky conference time. because of the time difference between nl and us, and because others have expressed an interest in an earlier time, and because those who originally chose the 7pm pst timeslot haven't shown up in a while, i would like to propose the new timeslot thus: Sundays, 8am pst/11am est/5pm (nl time) at: #geodesic this message may not get to everyone in time for tomorrow (4/23), but anyone who wants to try it may find some of us there. the 7pm pst/10pm est timeslot is still on for tomorrow, for whoever prefers that time, and we can decide on a more definitive timeslot that tries to accomodate those interested. -k. erixon - setebos@netcom.com ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 08:28:23 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Nick Pine Organization: Villanova University Subject: Re: building domes geodesically AMKALENAK [?] wrote: >In my reseaches, I have attempted to canvas the current state of dome >technology. Most of what I found, to borrow a phrase, was >"way over-built" or used conventional building trades technology. >Remember Ephemerization. I'd say that the Monolithic (foam/concrete) Domes are "way over-built..." And they do use conventional building trades technology, eg air-inflated structures, similar to tennis courts, polyurethane spray foam inside that, rebar inside that and shotcrete inside that. I'd like to see thinner concrete walls inside, 1/4" over steel mesh, and less urethane foam, 1" vs 3", and no rebar. One of the obstacles is the building codes, eg the American Concrete Institute, many of whose members doubtless sell concrete and rebar... The Monolithic dome is fairly efficient in labor, except for all that rebar attachment, but not so efficient in materials. It seems to me that putting up a light (2x4?) geodesic frame, and putting some poly film outside that, and pulling a slight vacuum inside, then spraying an inch of urethane onto the plastic film from the inside, and stapling on wire mesh to the planar triangular surfaces, then troweling (or spraying?) on 1/4" of cement, would be more materials-efficient, but less labor-efficient. Or it might even be more labor-efficient... I wonder how to prefab this, and how does one make a weatherproof skin? Perhaps the outside should be covered with light galvanized metal (which would provide some tensile strength), with some sort of weatherstripping gasket where triangles meet. The foam inside this, and the wire mesh and concrete inside that, might be made at the factory, and the panels might be bolted together from the inside, thru two holes in each strut, left open in the concrete/foam pattern. Some of the panels would have Tedlar or polycarbonate skins, and some greenhouse shadecloth with air gaps, over the foam and concrete inside, with some holes and plastic flap dampers, to make passive air heaters. Some of the panels might be windows, with several layers of clear plastic film, the inner one being a heat mirror film. Nick ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 04:31:07 GMT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Chris Fearnley Organization: Philadelphia's Complete Internet Provider Subject: High-Frequency Geodesic Dome (actually sphere) JPEG's (using POV-Ray) Rick Bono, author of dome (ftp://ftp.teleport.com:/pub/users/pdx4d/bin), asked me to check out high-frequency domes. If you want to see a 5-v and a 25-v geodesic sphere check out my web page: http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf/jpegs.html. Warning they are both big 640x480 jpegs. Now I must warn you that to calculate and render these at home, you will need lots of memory. Here's my report on how resource intensive this stuff is. It seems I can generate high-frequency dome information easily under Linux (with a 486-33 and 16M of on-board RAM and 9M of swap). Here is some timing information for calculating 5-50 frequency domes and the size of the POV scripts generated. Due to lack of disk space I had to delete the scripts. Unfortunately I could not render the 50-v dome. POV-Ray used up all my memory (even after adding an additional 16M of swap) and it only got about half-way through (45,000 lines). But I did get the 25-v dome rendered. It too used a lot of RAM: $ ps -am | head -1; ps -am | grep povray PID TTY MAJFLT MINFLT TRS DRS SIZE SWAP RSS SHRD LIB DT COMMAND 522 v03 42318 20581 80 11436 25184 13396 11788 364 272 682 povray -i i25.pov Yup, you read that right 13M swap + 12M RAM and lots of thrashing in the parsing and preprocessing stages. But it worked! Anyway it would seem you need a workstation (like Linux on a 486) to do this sort of thing. If anyone needs data on large high-frequency domes, let me know and I can e-mail you results of running dome at any frequency. But it took a long time to render the 25-v dome (at 640x480 resolution) -- a bit over 4 hours. Now for the timing results for the dome program (as you can see it only took a tad over 1 minute for dome to create the 10M 50-v POV script): $ time dome -s -f5 i5.pov Dome 3.50, Copyright (C) 1995, Richard J. Bono Dome comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See GNU General Public License for more details. Execution Complete! 0.86user 0.09system 0:01.10elapsed 86%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps -rw-r--r-- 1 cjf users 124579 Apr 23 01:24 i5.pov $ time dome -s -f10 i10.pov Dome 3.50, Copyright (C) 1995, Richard J. Bono Dome comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See GNU General Public License for more details. Execution Complete! 2.89user 0.30system 0:03.19elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps -rw-r--r-- 1 cjf users 439741 Apr 23 01:24 i10.pov $ time dome -s -f15 i15.pov Dome 3.50, Copyright (C) 1995, Richard J. Bono Dome comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See GNU General Public License for more details. Execution Complete! 6.60user 0.56system 0:07.56elapsed 94%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps -rw-r--r-- 1 cjf users 948059 Apr 23 01:25 i15.pov $ time dome -s -f20 i20.pov Dome 3.50, Copyright (C) 1995, Richard J. Bono Dome comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See GNU General Public License for more details. Execution Complete! 11.45user 1.08system 0:13.22elapsed 94%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps -rw-r--r-- 1 cjf users 1648546 Apr 23 01:25 i20.pov $ time dome -s -f25 i25.pov Dome 3.50, Copyright (C) 1995, Richard J. Bono Dome comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See GNU General Public License for more details. Execution Complete! 17.17user 1.67system 0:20.37elapsed 92%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps -rw-r--r-- 1 cjf users 2542537 Apr 23 01:25 i25.pov $ time dome -s -f30 i30.pov Dome 3.50, Copyright (C) 1995, Richard J. Bono Dome comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See GNU General Public License for more details. Execution Complete! 24.19user 3.33system 0:28.87elapsed 95%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps -rw-r--r-- 1 cjf users 3628351 Apr 23 01:26 i30.pov $ time dome -s -f40 i40.pov Dome 3.50, Copyright (C) 1995, Richard J. Bono Dome comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See GNU General Public License for more details. Execution Complete! 43.35user 6.00system 0:50.88elapsed 96%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps -rw-r--r-- 1 cjf users 6379156 Apr 23 01:26 i40.pov $ time dome -s -f50 i50.pov Dome 3.50, Copyright (C) 1995, Richard J. Bono Dome comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See GNU General Public License for more details. Execution Complete! 67.32user 8.77system 1:19.06elapsed 96%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps -rw-r--r-- 1 cjf users 9900961 Apr 23 01:28 i50.pov -- Christopher J. Fearnley | UNIX SIG Leader at PACS cjf@netaxs.com (finger me!) | (Philadelphia Area Computer Society) cfearnl@pacs.pha.pa.us | Design Science Revolutionary http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf | Explorer in Universe "Dare to be Naive" -- Bucky Fuller | Linux Advocate ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 09:16:42 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Nick Pine Organization: Villanova University Subject: Passive Solar House Heating Lectures in the Philadelphia Area High-Performance, Cost-Effective, Passive Solar House Heating Wednesday, April 26, at 7:30 PM at the Academy of Natural Sciences, and Thursday, April 27, at noon at Ursinus College, Pfhaler Hall room 114 Local engineer Nick Pine will describe a *new*, simple, passive solar heating technique for houses, offices, schools, greenhouses and other structures. The technique may be used for new houses as well as for retrofits to existing houses: a low-thermal-mass sunspace heats the house in average solar weather, and a higher-temperature, high-thermal-mass "solar closet"/sauna inside the sunspace, heats the house during cloudy weather. Nick believes that this inexpensive technique can provide close to 100% of the year-round space heating and water heating requirements of a house in Pennsylvania. A number of 100%-solar, inexpensive houses with long track records have been designed by Professional Engineer Norman Saunders, using similar techniques. These houses are mostly in the New England area, and some of them have no backup heating systems at all. The lecture will include a paper handout, a tutorial on the simple mathematics of heatflow, and some examples of useful solar materials and tools, including computer simulations. There will be a slide show with pictures of many local buildings, with some specific suggestions for solar improvements for each, including estimated costs of materials and numerical benefits. There will also be some specific suggestions for further practical solar research. Sponsors include the Philadelphia Solar Energy Society and the Ursinus College Sigma Xi scientific society. There is no admission fee. All are invited. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 22:40:00 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: BLAKEJJ3@AOL.COM Subject: any articles I am writing a small report on Buckminster fuller and wanted some info. I'm a first time user so bear with me. thanks ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 20:02:47 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: WORLD GAME ON CD Last Sunday morning (4-24-95) I talked with the World Game Institute's West Coast Representative, Chuck Dingee, by way of the Internet Relay Chat (IRC). He indicated that the WGI has contracted with Microsoft to produce and market the World Game on a CD. He can be reached at: P.O.Box 2681, Bellingham, WA 98227; 206-647-5106 and: http://www.pacificrim.net/~wginwrep/WorldGame/WGI.html The World Game Institute is at: xtm00002@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 11:15:58 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: UTOPIA OR OBLIVION (REVISED) CONTENTS OF 'UTOPIA OR OBLIVION' BY R.BUCKMINSTER FULLER, 1969 (Revised Version 4-25-95: Chapters 11 and 12 Expanded) INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT W. MARKS 1. A CITIZEN OF THE 21ST CENTURY LOOKS BACK ("Man with a Chronofile") 2. THE MUSIC OF THE NEW LIFE (64 Keynote to US Off Ed & Music Eds Natl Conf) a. Thoughts on Creativity, Sensorial Reality, and Comprehensiveness b. 12 Figures and Charts 3. PREVAILING CONDITIONS IN THE ARTS (NY U Seminar on Elem & Sec School Ed) a. Introduction (Synergetics) b. 20 Figures and Charts 4. KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT VISION 65 (S Ill U & Intl Center for Typographic Arts) 5. SUMMARY ADDRESS AT VISION 65 6. THE WORLD GAME--HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WORK 7. GEOSOCIAL REVOLUTION a. Introduction b. Geosocial Revolution 8. HOW TO MAINTAIN MAN AS A SUCCESS IN UNIVERSE (Brookings, US Dept Labor) 9. UTOPIA OR OBLIVION 10. CURRICULA AND THE DESIGN INITIATIVE (Amer Assoc University Women Staff) a. Changes in Curriculum Intended to Prepare the Individual b. Three Suggested Studies 11. DESIGN STRATEGY (To Leading Figure in Building Industry) a. Introduction b. Strategic Questions (40) 1) What Do We Mean by Universe? 2) Has Man a Function in Universe? 3) What is Thinking? 4) What are Experiences? 5) What are Experiments? 6) What is Subjective? 7) What is Objective? 8) What is Apprehension? 9) What is Comprehension? 10) What is Positive? Why? 11) What is Negative? Why? 12) What is Physical? 13) What is Metaphysical? 14) What is Synergy? 15) What is Energy? 16) What is Brain? 17) What is Intellect? 18) What is Science? 19) What is a System? 20) What is Consciousness? 21) What is Subconsciousness? 22) What is Teleology? 23) What is Automation? 24) What is a Tool? 25) What is Industry? 26) What is Animate? 27) What is Inanimate? 28) What are Metabolics? 29) What is Wealth? 30) What is Intuition? 31) What are Esthetics? 32) What is Harmonic? 33) What is Prosaic? 34) What are the Senses? 35) What are Mathematics? 36) What is Structure? 37) What is Differentiation? 38) What is Integration? 39) What is Integrity? 40) What is Truth? c. Dominant Concepts (14) 1) Universe 2) Humanity 3) Children 4) Teleology 5) Reform the Environment 6) General Systems Theory 7) Industrialization 8) Design Science 9) World Service Industries 10) Ephemeralization and Invisible Commonwealth 11) Prime Design Initiative 12) Self-Disciplines 13) Comprehensive Coordination 14) World Community and Subcommunities of World Man 12. EPILOGUE a. Introduction b. Suggested Projects 1) Two-Mile-High Tower 2) One-Million-Passenger Two-Mile-High Floating Tetrahedronal City 3) 1000-Passenger Vertical Takeoff and Landing Airplanes 4) Air-Delivered, Mass-Produced Skyscrapers 5) Helicopter-Delivered 1,000' Diameter Geodesic Domes 6) Dome-Enclosed Cities for Deserts, Arctic, etc. 7) 500 Pound Black Box Enabling Any Dwelling to be Self-Contained 8) Portable, Self-Contained Scientifically Designed Geodesic Dome Home 9) Sky-Floating One-Mile Diameter Geodesic Tensegrity Domes 13. BIBLIOGRAPHY (NO INDEX) -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 17:23:31 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: WORLD GAME DOC 1 X-cc: Mission Earth CONTENTS 'WORLD GAME:INTEGRATIVE RESOURCE UTILIZATION PLANNING TOOL' BY BF,'71 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OTHER VOLUMES IN THE WORLD RESOURCES INVENTORY (WORLD DESIGN SCIENCE DECADE) 1. 'Inventory of World Resources,Human Trends & Needs'by BF & McHale, '63 2. 'The Design Initiative' by R.B. Fuller, '64 3. 'Comprehensive Thinking' by R.B. Fuller, '65 4. 'The Ten Year Program' by BF & McHale, '65 5. 'Comprehensive Design Strategy' by R.B. Fuller, '67 6. 'The Ecological Context, Energy and Materials' by John McHale, '67 LIST OF CHARTS, TABLES AND MAPS (33) PREFACE BY THOMAS B. TURNER A. WORLD GAME SCENARIO 1. Preamble and Memorandum to Those Interested in Playing the World Game 2. R.B.F.'s Presentation to U.S.Congressional Sub-Committee on World Game 3. Fortune Magazine Resource Inventory of 1940 & Data Sources 4. The Fuller Dymaxion Sky/Ocean World Projection: World 1/World 2 5. Telegram to Senator Edmund Muskie B. WORLD GAME PACKET 1. Fuller Statement on the World Game by R.Buckminster Fuller 2. Design Science by R.Buckminster Fuller 3. How and Where to Begin by Medard Gabel 4. World Game "World View"/Frames of Reference by Medard Gabel 5. World Game Format Outline for Scenarios by Medard Gabel 6. World Game Pre-Scenario Integration Outlines by Medard Gabel C. INFORMATION TO BEGIN STUDYING THE WORLD GAME 1. BF Research Techniques for Compiling/Displaying Data by M.Paterra 2. Examples of Data Handling Techniques by O'Regan & Gabel 3. Published Data Sources on World Resources (7) 4. Data Centers with Additional World Resources Data Availability (9) 5. World Resources Inventory via Satellite D. READINGS 1. Universal Requirement for a Dwelling Advantage by R.B.Fuller 2. Conning Tower, Geoscope/Miniearth by R.B.Fuller 3. Population Control Dynamism of Universe/No Race,No Class by R.B.Fuller 4. World Game Systems Theory by BF & Turner 5. "Prospects for Humanity" (Saturday Review magazine) by R.B.Fuller APPENDIX: ORGANIZING A WORLD GAME OPERATION/VARIOUS OPTIONS 1. World Game Program Kit (Minimum Packet) 2. World Game Program Kit (Maximum Packet) 3. List of Items Needed to Set Up Full-Scale Facility (NO INDEX) -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 21:16:34 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: DWELLING REQUIREMENTS UNIVERSAL DESIGN REQUIREMENTS OF A SCIENTIFIC DWELLING FACILITY I. RANDOM AND SUBJECTIVE PHENOMENA A. Exterior Variables 1. Protect Against 2. Use B. Interior Variables 1. Ignorance 2. Bacteria 3. Physical Fatigue 4. Psychological Fatigue 5. Emotional Fatigue 6. Harmonic Phenomenon C. Exterior Constants 1. Environmental Constant 2. Environmental Seasonal 3. Chemical 4. Biological 5. Environmental Emergencies II. INTERNAL ROUTINE AND SUBJECTIVE PHENOMENA A.External Organic Processes 1. Fueling 2. Realignment 3. Refuse B.Internal Organic Processes 1. Fueling 2. Sleep 3. Refuse C.Interior Constants 1. Storage 2. Travel 3. Reduction III. INTERNAL RANDOM AND OBJECTIVE PHENOMENA A. Investment 1. Conning 2. Articulation 3. Recreation 4. Procreation B. Feedback 1. Sub-Visible 2. Geo-Visible 3. Astro-Visible 4. Supra-Visible IV. EXTERNAL INCISIVE AND ROUTINE OBJECTIVE PHENOMENA A. Investment 1. Study 2. Listing 3. Labs 4. Assumptions 5. Flowsheets 6. Specs and Drawings 7. Report B. Feedback 1. Survey 2. Assumptions 3. Curves 4. Tensioning 5. Compressioning 6. Production Forms 7. Hierarchies 8. Budgeting 9. Field Practices 10. Longevity of Design 11. Recycling 12. Performance Requirements 13. Logistics 14. Tools 15. Materials 16. Ratios 17. Elimination of Special Forming 18. Elimination of Special Designing 19. Quantities 20. Operations 21. Tool Types 22. Schedules 23. Man Hours 24. One-Man-Ability 25. Routines 26. Drawings 27. Parts 28. Standards 29. Numbering System 30. Purchasing C. Public Relations 1. Education For more details see: 'No More Secondhand God' by R.Buckminster Fuller, 1963, pages 45-64. 'World Game:Integrative Resource Utilization Planning Tool' by BF,'71,pp145-8 'World Design Science Decade Document 2' by R.B.Fuller, 1963, pages 142-56 -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 09:05:58 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: INVENTORY OF RESOURCES CONTENTS OF 'INVENTORY OF WORLD RESOURCES, HUMAN TRENDS & NEEDS' BY RBF, 1963 1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 2. PREFACE BY JOHN MCHALE 3. PROPOSAL TO THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ARCHITECTS BY R.B.FULLER 4. MAN IN UNIVERSE A. Introduction B. Man on Earth (9 Figures) 5. INDUSTRIALIZATION (5 Figures) 6. WORLD ENERGY (4 Figures) 7. WORLD RESOURCES, HUMAN TRENDS AND NEEDS A. World Production of Major Minerals & Metals by Country (10 Figures) B. Population and Food C. Education and Communication (2 Figures) D. Continuous Man (6 Figures) 8. APPENDIX I: LETTER TO WORLD ARCHITECTURAL STUDENTS BY R.B.FULLER 9. APPENDIX II: FORWARD PROCEDURE A. Introduction B. Data Conversion and Per Capitizing Program Report C. Manual Conversion Table D. Glossary of Terms 10. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY A. General B. Data Sources C. References and Atlases (NO INDEX) -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 11:33:25 -0700 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: ll Subject: BUCKMISTER FULLER CENTENNIAL SYMPOSIUM AND CELEBRATION FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION ON THE "BUCKY EVENT" AND GENI SEE: http://www.cerf.net/geni BUCKMINSTER FULLER'S CENTENNIAL SYMPOSIUM AND CELEBRATION "Rediscovering the GENIus in us all" July 14-16, 1995 San Diego, California A World that Works for Everyone! Is it Possible? Buckminster Fuller, the ,"Leonardo deVinci of our time" conceived it. Come Celebrate this unique visionary's 100th Birthday Celebration See and experience what he did. July 14- 16, 1995 San Diego, California ABOUT BUCKMINSTER FULLER As a pioneer in whole systems thinking and design, Fuller referred to himself as a Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Scientist for "Spaceship Earth". He devoted his life to developing solutions to global problems which did "more with less" based upon the design principles of nature. Among the results were Synergetic Geometry, the geodesic dome, The Dymaxion Map, Car, House and World Game. A prolific author of 20 books and thousands of articles, Fuller received 47 Honorary Doctorates and numberous awards including the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects and the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award given by the government of the United States. "For the first time in the history of humanity, it is evident that there is enough of the fundamental metabolic and mechanical energy sustenance for everybody to survive at high living standards" Buckminster Fuller Discover, experience and participate in: WORLD GAME --Play on the world's largest and most accurate map -- the Dymaxion Map scaled to 70' by 35'. Stride a gymnasium-size map full of global citizens, developing strategies and working together to solve the world's problems. FILM FESTIVAL -- Attend screenings of Buckminster Fuller films -- hear Bucky speak and relive his life's work so you can use his teachings in your own life. "BUCKY FOR KID'S" -- Build Tensegrity Structures (nature's own building blocks) and Dymaxion Domes -- Learn the basics of "Synergetics" and Buckyballs. Introduce tommorow's leaders to the ideas that are shaping their future. BOOKSTORE -- View Bucky's artifacts, exhibits and books -- the gifts Bucky left for all of us. CONCERT -- Enjoy an evening of musical greats who share Bucky's vision for the world. DYMAXION CAR -- View this lightweight, fuel efficient automobile, built in 1933. Next to the model T's of the time, this car design will amaze you. EXPERT PANELS -- Hear personal stories and lifelong lessons from people who carry on Bucky's work today. This event will engage you in the question that Bucky lived by: "If the success or failure of this planet, and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do; How would I be? What would I do?" For further information -- or to register for this once in a lifetime historic event: Name _________________________________________________________ Address_______________________________________________________ City_______________________ State______Zip_____ Country___________ Tel _________________ Fax _________________ E-mail_______________ Full registration for all Symposium/Centennial Events is $150. ($50 deposit requested) Elementary through College students, half price on all events except concert. E-Mail, FAX or send check or credit card information to: GENI (Global Energy Network International) 425 West "B" Street, Suite B-11 San Diego, CA 92101 USA Tel: (619)595-0139 Fax: (619)595-0403 E-mail:geni@cerf.net (GENI is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation) ********************************************************************** DESCRIPTION A three day event to celebrate the 100th Birthday of R. Buckminster Fuller, the "Leonardo Da Vinci of our time." Events to include: Opening Ceremony and Reception, several World Game presentations, Benefit Concert, Film Festival, Bucky for Kids children's festival, Exhibits, Seminars and Panel Discussions. Confirmed Sponsors Auto Trader Magazines Critical Path Project Global Energy Network International HPCwire KNSD TV Channel 39 The Light Connection National University Peace Resource Center of San Diego Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater San Diego AIA (Architects) San Diego Earth Times San Diego Natural History Museum SDSU Environmental Design Dept Shapery Enterprises Society for Computer Simulation SuperCamp/Learning Forum UCSD Extended Studies and Public Service Union Bank Windstar World Affairs Council In cooperation with the Buckminster Fuller Institute BACKGROUND R. Buckminster Fuller, Jr. was born in Milton, Massachusetts, on July 12, 1895. He is best known for inventing the Geodesic dome, the most famous example of which was the United States Pavilion at the Montreal World's Fair, Expo '67. Throughout his lifetime, Fuller introduced ground-breaking ideas in the fields of architecture, design, art, engineering, education, cartography and mathematics. Fuller called himself a "Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Scientist" -- and committed his life to finding the global strategies to make humankind "a success in the universe." Fuller believed that human evolution could best be promoted by reforming the living environment through design on all levels rather than by reforming people through economics and/or politics. His Design Science also addressed energy harvesting, transporting and food gathering, all informed by his concept of dymaxion: ever- increasing performance using ever less investment of materials. By 1983, at the end of his eighty-seven years, Fuller had written more than twenty books, held twenty-seven patents for his inventions and had received forty-seven honorary doctorate degrees and numerous awards, including the United States Medal of Freedom and the American Institute of Architects' prestigious Gold Medal Award. Core Components of the Symposium - Celebration: OPENING PANEL, BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION & CELEBRITY RECEPTION Friday evening July 14 Venue and Sponsor: UCSD Mandeville Auditorium Format: Presentation on stage to theater audience. Several VIP guests discuss and recall Bucky's influence on their personal lives, in the world and his relevance today and into the future. * Entertainment to include: - Brief video excerpts of Bucky and his ideas shown throughout the evening - Music videos: "What One Man Can Do" (John Denver) & "Fool on the Hill" (Beatles) - Theater/Dance: Rick Perkins, dramatic presentation of Bucky and "World Game" dance piece with Dymaxion Map - Readings: co-authors Peter Wagschal, Anwar Dil, and others * Jaime (Bucky's grandson) and Allegra Snyder (Bucky's daughter) have a special tribute -- this would include personal stories from family and close friends. On film, Bucky could sing "Home, Home on a Dome" -- and everyone could then sing Happy Birthday. A toast is delivered, thanking Bucky for his vision and integrity. * A Dymaxion Birthday Cake is presented and pieces cut for all Confirmed presenters: Amy Edmondson, author "A Fuller Explanation" (of Synergetics) Kiyoshi Kuromiya, adjuvant "Critical Path" and "Cosmography" Peter Meisen, President, Global Energy Network International Eugene Ray, Chairman Environmental Design Department, SDSU Don Richter, Temcor (retired) built 5000 domes around the world Allegra Snyder, daughter of Buckminster Fuller Harold Kroto, co-founder, Buckminsterfullerene Peter Wagschal, Vice President, National University, editor with Bucky The WORLD GAMES Thursday July 13 (Children and Students) Venue: UCSD Mandeville Auditorium Sponsor: UCSD Extended Studies and Public Service Saturday July 15 (Adult and Student) Venue: SDSU Peterson Gym Sunday July 16 (VIP - local leaders) Venue: SDSU Peterson Gym Sponsor: SDSU Environmental Design Dept. The World Game is a multi-media event. The participants become the world's leaders, regional citizens, news reporters, business moguls and representatives of international organizations such as the World Bank and United Nations. Armed with the latest data, equipped with food, natural resources, money, energy, technology and military expenditures as they are distributed in the world today, players stand on the most accurate map of the world, the Bucky Dymaxion Map scaled out to 70' x 35' (the size of a basketball court). Left to negotiate with neighboring and far away nations to find global solutions for local problems, participants are quickly engaged in a fast-moving interactive simulation where global problems are identified, addressed and solved, leaving participants with a new understanding of world issues. Since they began with Buckminster Fuller over twenty years ago the World Game Institute has continued to hold this game in more than 30 countries around the world. SPECIAL GUEST SEMINARS Saturday and Sunday, July 15 - 16 Venue and Sponsor: National University * Amy Edmondson on "Fundamental Structure and Synergetics" * Kiyoshi Kuromiya and Graeme Edwards discussing "Critical Path" * Don Richter, Michael Jantzen, Eugene Ray, Peter Pearce, Jay Baldwin and others from the Architectural community on "Buildings, Domes and Environmental Design" * Harold Kroto on Buckminsterfullerenes i.e. "Buckyballs" -- the molecular breakthrough of the decade. * Peter Meisen on the "Global Electric Energy Grid" -- Bucky's number one priority for the planet from the World Game. * Wayne Morgan and Blair Singer on "Generalized Principals of Universe Applied to Business" * Barbara Marx Hubbard on the "Spiritual, Social, and Scientific Fulfilment of Buckminster Fuller's Vision through Conscious Evolution" * Video excerpts from "The Future of Business", and discussion with Randy Craft (Dr. Fuller called this video library "the most concise recapitulation of my entire life's activities ever delivered before humans to date.") Each of the above workshop/presentations are expected to be half day sessions. Given the anticipated interest, some sessions may be repeated a second time. "BUCKY FOR KIDS" -- a Children's Festival and Bookstore/Exhibit Saturday and Sunday July 15 - 16 Venue and Sponsor: San Diego Natural History Museum Two Components: 1. An Exhibit of Buckminster Fuller's Artifacts and Bookstore outside the San Diego Natural History Museum * Models, Artifacts from the Buckminster Fuller Institute * Dome and structural modellers to bring their artifacts * Fuller's books, Dymaxion Maps, etc. sold in bookstore * Display of Windstar environmental technologies * Computer Animation of the Global Energy Grid 2. A Children's festival surrounding the big tree outside the Museum to include: * Building dymaxion models and geodesic domes * Making dymaxion map puzzles and playing games with their maps * Short version of Andrew Long's "Nine Chains to the Moon" dance/theater * Children's mural * Balloon makers creating tensegrity structures for children's hats, etc. * Face painting with dymaxion designs FILM FESTIVAL Saturday and Sunday July 15 - 16 Venue and Sponsor: Reuben H Fleet Space Theater Honorary Chair: Tony Houston, film maker Continuous screenings of: * "Buckminster Fuller and Spaceship Earth," a 60 minute tour d'force documentary on the thinking of Buckminster Fuller, produced by award winning film-maker Robert Snyder * "Ecological Design - Inventing the Future," 18 designer/architects including Dr. Fuller present ideas, prototypes and models of appropriate technology and ecological design. Produced by Chris Zelov. EVENT SYMPOSIUM/CELEBRATION PARTICIPANT COST * Registration of $150 for a three day event includes: Opening Celebration World Game Benefit Concert Film Festival Children's Festival Guest Seminars * Students pay half price * Events will also be listed and priced separately * All registrants to pay for own travel and lodging GLOBAL ENERGY NETWORK INTERNATIONAL Peter Meisen P.O.Box 81565 San Diego, CA 92138 (619) 595-0139 FAX: (619) 595-0403 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 15:58:47 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: DESIGN INITIATIVE CONTENTS OF 'THE DESIGN INITIATIVE' BY R.BUCKMINSTER FULLER, 1963 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PREFACE BY JOHN MCHALE 1. WORLD DESIGN INITIATIVE (69 PICS, 12 FIGURES) 2. THE 5 TWO-YEAR INCREMENT PHASES OF THE 10-YEAR WORLD FACILITIES REDESIGN A. Phase 1: World Literacy re. World Problems B. Phase 2: Prime Movers and Prime Metals C. Phase 3: Tool Evolution D. Phase 4: The Service Industries E. Phase 5: The Evolving Contact Products 3. HISTORICAL BLAST OFF INTO THE SPACE AGE OF MAN A. The 160 Year Industrial Revolution as Articulated in the US (5 Charts) B. Automation Permits General Distribution of Wealth (1 Chart) C. Velocity of Families' Acquisition of Mechanical Extensions (1 Chart) D. Copper: The Energy Highway of Industrialization (2 Charts) E. World & US Production & Consumption of Copper Correlated to Population 4. THE CUMULATIVE NATURE OF WEALTH (1 Chart) 5. UNIVERSAL REQUIREMENTS CHECKLIST A. Essentially Random & Subjective Phenomena B. Essentially Routine & Subjective Phenomena-Internal to Dwelling C. Essentially Random & Objective Phenomena-Internal to Dwelling D. Essentially Incisive & Routine Objective Phenomena-External to Dwelling LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (NO INDEX) -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 19:25:44 EDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: World Game Institute Subject: Re: WGI Workshops X-To: Joe Moore Dear Joe, The Environmental World Game does attempt to deal with the issue(s) of renewable energy and with the whole notion of sustainability (sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, renewable resources, recycling, increasing efficiency of all technology, etc.). In this simulation, there is "Green Technology" that participants can obtain that will convert their technological systems from non-sustainable to sustainable. We also have a design for a World Energy Game where all the issues of energy are dealt with in much more depth. In order to pull this one off we need a grant and/or a market where we can deliver this product and re-coup the development costs. Two years ago we tried to get a grant to do the World Energy Game at a wide variety of sites and for a wide variety of different organizations (environmental, government, community, industry, etc.) and to use the game as a serious policy exploration and development tool. We didn't get the grant. If you know any other ways of realizing this tool, please let me know.... In the meantime, we will continue to try and find a way of making the World Energy Game real. (We would also like to do a World Food Game, a World Health Care Game, etc.) Regards, Medard Gabel ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 18:05:51 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: COMPREHENSIVE THINKING CONTENTS OF 'COMPREHENSIVE THINKING' BY R.BUCKMINSTER FULLER, 1965 FOREWORD BY JOHN MCHALE (1 Figure) 1. INTRODUCTION TO HALO (1 Figure) 2. OMNI-DIRECTIONAL HALO (1 Pic, 9 Figures) 3. PROFILE OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (1 Figure) 4. VENUS PROXIMITY DAY 5. WAVE TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE CITY 6. PROSPECTS FOR HUMANITY (9 TRENDS) A. Introduction B. Continuous or Deathless Man C. Students Becoming Aware of the Design Science Revolution D. Increasing Specialization E. Overspecialization Leads to Extinction F. Computer Making Man Obsolete as a Specialist G. Man Being Forced to Become a Comprehensivist H. Gradual Global Disarmament I. Science Reorienting Toward Livingry J. Evolving Toward Invisible Architecture 7. GEOSOCIAL REVOLUTION A. Synopsis B. Introduction C. Geosocial Revolution APPENDIX: RESOLUTION ON THEME OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION BIBLIOGRAPHY (NO INDEX) -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 19:32:47 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: THE 10 YEAR PROGRAM CONTENTS OF 'THE TEN YEAR PROGRAM' BY JOHN MCHALE, 1965 PREFACE BY JOHN MCHALE 1. WORLD LITERACY RE WORLD PROBLEMS A. Phase I 1) Introduction 2) Step 1 3) Step 2 4) How May We Prepare Comprehensive Statements of the World Problems? 5) How May We go Forward to Prepare Plans and Solutions? 6) Food (4 Figures) 7) Water (1 Figure) 8) Health (2 Figures) 9) Education (1 Figure) 10) Housing 11) The Ecological Context B. Readings List C. Appendix A: The Geoscope Concept 1) Geoscope Development (4 Pics) 2) The Nottingham Geoscope 3) The Colorado Geoscope (4 Pics, 1 Figure) D. Appendix B: The Big Alphabets 1) Elementary and Fundamental a. The Letters b. Ordinal Numbers c. Calendars d. Terrestrial and Star Maps 2) The Four Major Summaries a. Energy: The Electro Magnetic Spectrum (2 Charts) b. Matter: The Periodic Table of Elements (1 Chart) c. Time: The Geological Timetable of the Earth (2 Charts) d. Space: The Series of 'Material' Organizations (1 Chart) 2. PRIME MOVERS AND PRIME METALS A. Phase II 1) Energy (4 Figures) 2) Metals (1 Figure) B. Readings List 3. TOOL EVOLUTION A. Phase III (6 Figures) B. Readings List 4. THE SERVICE INDUSTRIES A. Phase IV 1) Communication (5 Figures) 2) Single Family Dwelling 3) Community Facilities 4) Dynamics of Urbanism (1 Figure) 5) Educational Service Networks 6) World Service (1 Figure) B. Readings List C. Appendix C: Towards a World University 1) International Cooperation 2) The World University (2 Figures) 3) An International Scientific City 4) An International Territory of Science (Antarctica) 5. THE EVOLUTING CONTACT PRODUCTS A. Phase V (2 Figures) B. Readings List (NO INDEX) -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 00:55:02 -0400 Reply-To: AMKALENAK Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: AMKALENAK Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Subject: Re: building domes geodesically Nick My efforts in dome construction are currently toward a tensed fabric on a tubular frame. My design criteria are modularity, standardized componants, using readily available materials and ease of erection. Currently my major design challenge is an effective closure between overlapping fabric panels. We've had 70 mph winds, which were successfully endured. However, during these wind the panels lifted at the edges causing increased wear of the of the panels and associated tensioning elements. Also they just don't look right. I want a smooth, continuous surface (excepting minor seams). As regards Monolithic domes, I've considered using my bolted tubular domes as a framework for a cement on "chicken wire" in much the same manner as common "play-ground" constructions . I haven't pursued this avenue, but it seems that it could potentially provide a long lasting, durable structure. If this could be mechanized, prefabing might not be very important. Troweling cement onto said structure could be tricky . Currently, Ive constructed a 4 Frequency 32' dia. tubular dome. and am working on a 5 frequency 40' dia dome with the basic system being modularly expandable. I would be interested in looking into using these frames for a monolitic dome. Tony ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 11:12:05 GMT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: "Woodrow W. Baker" Organization: Real/Time Communications - Bob Gustwick and Associates Subject: Re: Passive Solar House Heating Lectures in the Philadelphia Area Nick Pine (nick@vu-vlsi.ee.vill.edu) wrote: : High-Performance, Cost-Effective, Passive Solar House Heating : The lecture will include a paper handout, a tutorial on the simple mathematics : of heatflow, and some examples of useful solar materials and tools, including : computer simulations. There will be a slide show with pictures of many local Hope you can post the paper handout here. Cheers Woody ---- Woody Baker Postscript consultant/ hired software gun /flintknapper knapper@bga.com woody@knapper.cactus.org "If you ain't bleedin' you ain't knappin'" -->go ahead, ask me! ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 09:17:10 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Nick Pine Organization: Villanova University Subject: Re: Passive Solar House Heating Lectures in the Philadelphia Area Woodrow W. Baker wrote: >Nick Pine (nick@vu-vlsi.ee.vill.edu) wrote: >: High-Performance, Cost-Effective, Passive Solar House Heating > >: The lecture will include a paper handout... > >Hope you can post the paper handout here. Sure, if you like. I'll be handing out these updated postings... Article: 2080 of alt.architecture.alternative From: nick@vu-vlsi.ee.vill.edu (Nick Pine) Subject: One way to build a high-performance passive solar house Date: 9 Feb 1995 08:56:54 -0500 [updated 4/25/95] Organization: Villanova University Step 1. Look up the average outdoor temperature in December, where you live. The nice new, free book, _Solar Radiation Data Manual for Flat-Plate and Concentrating Collectors_, from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory at (303) 275-4099, has this information, as well as some solar information, for many places in the United States. (They also have a CD, with *hourly* solar weather data for 247 US cities over the last 30 years, that might be used for passive solar house simulations.) For example, where I live, in the northeast, the average December temperature is about 32 degrees F, and the average amount of sun falling on a south wall is about 1,100 Btu per square foot per day. Step 2. Estimate how many Btu/day you need to heat your house at that average outdoor temperature. For example, if you have a 30' x 30' 2-story house, you have about 3,000 square feet of walls and roof. If the R-value of that surface is, say, 30, it takes about 3,000/30 = 100 Btu per hour to heat the house to 68 degrees, if it is 67 degrees outside. Subtract the average outdoor temperature from the indoor temperature and multiply by 24 hours, then multiply this by the sum of each surface area divided by its R-value. Our example house takes (68-32) x 24 x 100 = 86,000 Btu per day to heat. Call it a hundred thousand, a nice round number that is about the same amount of heat as a gallon of oil burned in an old oil burner. Step 3. Calculate how much south-facing glazing you need on your low-thermal-mass sunspace, to supply that amount of solar heat, on an average day. Where I live, each square foot of south facing wall receives about 1,000 Btu/day, another nice round number. If the low-thermal-mass sunspace has an insulated low-thermal-mass wall between it and the house, with a big window fan in one window, to suck most of the warm air into the house during the day, and you let the sunspace get icy cold at night, the sunspace will be about 68 F during the day, as a first approximation. So the heat lost from each square foot of glazing in the sunspace to the outside, during the day, in our example house, will be about (68-32) x 5 hours, or 180 Btu, if the sun shines for 5 hours on a winter day. So each square foot of sunspace glass provides about 800 Btu/day to the house, net, on an average winter day. Another way to figure this is that each square foot of south-facing glazing collects the heat-equivalent of 1-2 gallons of oil per year. If your present oil bill indicates that you need a thousand square feet of glazing or more, perhaps more house insulation and caulking are needed before solar heating, or you could just use the sunspace to reduce the oil heat, with no thermal store. Our example house would need about 100,000/800 = 125 square feet of glazing in the low-thermal-mass sunspace glass to keep it warm on an average day. Say, an 8' high x 16' wide window, with an insulated wall between that window and the rest of the house. The sunspace might be quite shallow, eg some cost-effective "solar siding," instead of, say, vinyl siding, as in the solar closet wall below. Or it might be a bit deeper, extending out from the house 8', and used for growing ripe, red tomatoes and basil in December, perhaps with a couple of extra hours of 90% high-pressure sodium and 10% mercury vapor light, and a little heat leaked from the house on freezing nights. Step 4. Take a guess at how many cloudy days there are in a row in December, where you live, and what the outdoor temperature is during those days. In many places, cloudy days are warmer than sunny days in December. (If you wanted to be more precise, the weather bureau, or perhaps NREL or NOAA could help. Or you could calculate Gaussian statistics using the CD data.) Let's say that our example house is in a climate with 5 cloudy days in a row, in December, and that the average temperature during those days is 32 F. Step 5. Calculate how many 55 gallon drums full of water you need to keep the house warm for that cloudy day period. In our example house, this would be 5 x 100,000 = 500,000 Btu, about the same as 5 gallons of oil. If the water in the drums is hot, say 130 F, and the drums can keep the house warm until the water cools to, say, 80 F, then each drum stores about 25,000 Btu, about the same as a quart of oil. So 5 gallons divided by one quart is 20 drums (talk about apples and oranges :-) How do you keep the drums that hot? You build an insulated solar closet behind the sunspace, in the house, with an air heater as part of the insulated wall between the sunspace and the house, with a transparent vertical cover of glass or transparent "solar siding," eg Dynaglas or Replex ((800) 726-5151) polycarbonate plastic, which costs about a dollar a square foot, and comes in long sheets, about 4' wide. Behind that siding, you staple some 80% greenhouse shadecloth, which costs about 14 cents per square foot, leaving a 1" air gap between the siding and the shadecloth, and you leave another 1" air gap between the shadecloth and the 3 1/2" of fiberglass insulation in the 6" wall, and you put small vents (about 1% of the overall area, eg 1 square foot in our example house) at the top and bottom of this air heater, to allow warm air from the solar closet to flow into the outside air gap through the vent hole at the bottom of the air heater, _through_ the shadecloth, and back through the upper vent hole into the insulated solar closet. The vent holes should have plastic-film backdraft dampers to keep the air from flowing when the sun is not shining. These might be made from chicken wire and a thin (1 mil) plastic film like that used for dry cleaner bags. The inside wall of the closet could be the foil face of the fiberglass insulation. The floor might be dirt, covered with a layer of plastic. There should be an air space between the drums and the walls of the solar closet, to allow air to circulate around the drums. There should also be a vent to the house, to be slightly opened on cloudy days. This could be an electric air damper controlled by a thermostat. (Another approach might be to put the 55 gallon drums on a strong attic floor as an overhead "warmstore," a la Norman Saunders, for new construction.) In our example house, if the 2' diameter x 3' long drums were stacked up horizontally, 4 high, the solar closet would be 8' high x 10' long x 4' deep. I would make it 6' longer, and use the non-drum space for a sauna. The solar closet should also have 3 1/2" of fiberglass insulation in its ceiling, ie the second floor of the house, and in its back (north) wall, inside the house. Note that most of the "waste heat" from this solar closet ends up in the house via the sunspace from the front glazing, when it is collecting heat, and via most of the insulated surface the rest of the time. Note that the solar closet does not usually provide heat for the house, except during cloudy day periods, so it stays hot like a stagnant solar collector. The sauna might have a very small woodstove, for burning newspapers, junk mail, old paper towels, college committee recommendations, letters from congressmen, and press releases announcing amazing new price breakthroughs in photovoltaic technology. Nick Article: 2127 of alt.architecture.alternative From: nick@vu-vlsi.ee.vill.edu (Nick Pine) Subject: Passive solar house evolution Date: 13 Feb 1995 09:49:42 -0500 Organization: Villanova University Question 1: If you put a 55 gallon drum full of water in a 2' square x 4' tall uninsulated box in the shade in Philadelphia, in January, what would the average temperature of the drum be? Answer 1: According to the NREL _Solar Radiation Data Manual_, the average January temperature in Philadelphia is -0.9 degrees C, or about 30 degrees F. Q2: What would the average box temperature be if it were in the sun, in Philadelphia, in January, and if it were painted white? According to the 1993 ASHRAE Handbook of Fundamentals, the "sol-air temperature," or equivalent air temperature, Te, of a vertical surface in the sun, is the outdoor temperature + 0.15 x U, IF the surface is painted a light color, and the amount of sun falling on the surface is U Btu/hour. According to the NREL book, a south-facing wall in Phila in January receives about 3.3 kWh/m^2/day, ie 3300 x 3.41 Btu/10.76 ft^2/m^2 = 1000 Btu/ft^2/day of sun. This is an average daily insolation of about 40 Btu/ft^2/hour. So assuming the sun only shines on the south side of the box, if it were painted white, the average temperature of the south side would be 30 + 0.15 x 40 = 36 degrees. The interior temperature should be the average temp. of all of the outside surfaces, I think. Each face of the box has a surface area of 8 ft^2, and the top and bottom have areas of 4 ft^2, so the average drum temperature should be about (8x36+3x8x30+2x4x30)/(8+3x8+4+4) = 1248 / 40 = 31.2 F, 1.2 degrees warmer than the drum in the shade. Q3. What would the drum temperature be if the box were painted black? The ASHRAE HOF says that the sol-air temperature of a DARK vertical surface is the outdoor temperature + 0.3 * U, so if the black box were receiving the same amount of sun as the white box, the average temperature of the south wall would be 30 + 0.3 x 40 = 42 F. So you can raise the effective average outdoor temperature of a white south-facing wall in Philadelphia by an average of 6 degrees, in January, just by painting it darker. Not bad... In the above case, the average temperature of the drum/box would be (8x42+3x8x30+2x4x30)/40 = 32.4 F, just above freezing. Q4. Suppose the box had a single-pane glass south wall, with no insulation? In this case, the solar energy, Ein, that goes into the box would be about Ein = 2 x 4 ft^2 x 1,000 Btu/ft^2/day = 8,000 Btu/day, assuming the glass transmits 100% of the solar energy. If the drumwater has an average temperature of Tw, and the walls and glass front of the box have an R-value of 1, the energy that goes out of the box in one day is Eout = (Tw-30) x 24 hours x 40 ft^2/R1. If energy is conserved, ie Ein = Eout, then Tw = 30 + 8,000/(24x40) = 38.3 degrees F. An improvement. Six degrees warmer than the unglazed box... Q5. How about if we add R-14 insulation to the other three sides and the top and the bottom? In this case, the solar energy that goes into the box is the same, but the solar energy that goes out of the box, into the outside air, is Eout = (Tw-30) x 24 hours x (8 ft^2/R1 + 32ft^2/R14) = (Tw-30) x 247, so if Eout = Ein, then Tw = 30 + 8,000/247 = 62 degrees F, a livable temperature, when the sun is shining, which begins to decrease when the sun stops shining. This is often as far as passive solar house designs go, with the house getting colder and colder on cloudy days, as a lot of heat leaks out of the south- facing windows. One of the problems with this design is that you have to *live* inside the "heat battery," so you can't make it too warm. Q6. But then suppose we make the glazed side an ideal air heater, so it collects the sun's heat during the day, but the drum is insulated at night? Now Eout = Es + Eother, where Es is the heat lost through the ideal south wall air heater. Say the sun shines for 6 hours a day in January... Then Es = (Tw-30) x 6 hours x 8 ft^2/R1 + (Tw-30) x 18 hours x 8 ft^2/R14. Eother is the heat lost through the east, north and west walls of the box, as well as the top and bottom. Eother = (Tw-30) x 24 hours x 32 ft^2/R14. So, if the energy into the box equals the energy out of the box, then (Tw-30)(48+10+55) = 8,000, so Tw = 30 + 8,000/113 = 103 degrees F. But wait! This is no good... This passive solar house has too much south-facing glass! It overheats! At this point, the thing to do is open the windows in January, or (better) move out of the little box with the drum in it, and build a house behind it, using the hot water in the drum as a heat battery for cloudy days. If the drum and its air heater are inside a sunspace, and the air from the sunspace heats the house during sunny-day periods, the heat lost from the south side of the air heater will help heat the house during sunny day periods. If the house is built around an insulating solar closet containing the warm drum, the heat lost from the drum will help heat the house too... So the heat that leaks out of the heat battery during sunny-day periods is not wasted. Q7. Now suppose we make the box 8' tall instead of 4' tall, so that the air heater collecting area is 16 ft^2, and the drum on top still gets all the collected heat, but none of the collected heat goes out through the lower half of the box or the uninsulated glass at night? g: glass giii Ein = 16 ft^2 x 1,000 Btu/day = 16,000 Btu/day. D: drum giDi i: insulation giii Eout = Es + Eother giii Es = (Tw-30)x6x16ft^2/R1 + (Tw-30)x18x8ft^2/R14 = (Tw-30)(96+10). Eother = (Tw-30)x24x32/R14 = (Tw-30)x55, as before. So Ein = Eout ==> Tw = 30 + 16,000/(96+10+55) = 131 degrees. This is getting interesting... We could not possibly live inside this solar closet, except for a few minutes at a time, as a sauna, but it is good to have a heat battery like this sitting around, charged up to a high temperature, because that will make the useful heat that we can get out of it last for a long time, during periods of cloudy days. Along with a bit more glazing, one might also put an electric water heater inside this closet, and preheat its cold water input with about 20' of 1 1/4" copper pipe running along the ceiling of the closet, to heat water for taking showers, etc... If the input water is preheated, and the water heater is in a 130F room, the electric heating element should rarely turn on. Q8. Suppose we used two layers of glazing instead of one, above? Ein would be the same, in this simple model. Es would be about (Tw-30)(48+10), and Eother would be the same. So Tw = 30 + 16,000/(48+10+55) = 174 degrees F. Q9. Then suppose we add a reflecting pool or shutter in front, which increases the solar input by 50%? Tw = 30 + 16,000x1.5/(48+10+55) = 242 F. (Which of course, would make the water steam. Maybe these drums should be full of sand. But then you would need about 3 times more of them, since masonry has about a third the heat capacity of water, and a higher thermal resistance.) Q10. But wait, we were going to put the solar closet inside the sunspace, right? So during the day, when the solar air heater is working, the south side of the air heater will be exposed to, say, 68 F house air, not 30 F air, and the other walls of the solar closet will also be exposed to 68 F air, not 30 F outside air. So what would the "water temperature" be in this case? It's roughly the same little calculation, using 68 F instead of 30 F: Tw = 68 + 16,000x1.5(48+10+55) = 280 F. Q11. Then suppose we lay the drum/box down horizontally, and put the air heater side at the focus, under an ideal 4:1 reflective linear parabolic concentrator? Or use an R-14 movable reflective shutter to cover the glass over the drum when the sun is not shining? Ein = 16,000 x 4 = 64,000 Btu/day. Eout does not change. So Tw = 68 + 64,000/(48+10+55) = 634 degrees F. ... So, it seems to me that it isn't too hard to arrange for a passive solar house to have a "solar closet" with a few high temperature 55 gallon drums full of water, a "heat battery" that can be discharged in a controlled way, to provide heat for a house during cloudy days... Nick ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 14:40:20 -0400 Reply-To: Tiquirris Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Tiquirris Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Subject: Re: building domes geodesically The Bucky Fuller is now in Santa Barbara, Cal. Its been there for approximately one year. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 17:43:39 -0400 Reply-To: Dr tee Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Dr tee Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Subject: American Ingenuity Domes???? I am currently considering building a dome supplied by American Ingenuity. Its 7 inches of foam covered with a concrete, mesh, and high-tech fibre. There is supposed to be a R-28 in the exterior. Anyone have comments or news about this company or their products. I plan to build in the fall, but would like to know if theres a chance that I will be stuck like those who bought from Monterey Domes. Thanks in advance. Wm. W. Thompson La Feria, TX wwt6b75@panam.edu or dr tee@aol.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 00:07:11 LOCAL Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: George Hart Organization: LI Net (Long Island Network) Subject: Re: High-Frequency Geodesic Dome (actually sphere) JPEG's (using POV-Ray) In article <3nf9ib$ed7@netaxs.com> cjf@netaxs.com (Chris Fearnley) writes: >... If you want to see a 5-v >and a 25-v geodesic sphere check out my web page... I have also been experimenting with geodesic constructions, but with different goals and my own software. If you are interested, check out my www page, where I have put up a few preliminary images: http://www.li.net/~george/pavilion.html As I am brand new to raytracing, your comments are very welcome. George Hart ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 08:58:00 -0300 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Rodrigo de Almeida Siqueira Subject: Someone with Tensegrity info. Hello! I recieved the following email of someone who can colaborate with Tensegrity information to be put in some WWW page. You may be interested also and contact him to get the material: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 04:53:48 GMT From: WWW Mail Gateway To: Rodrigo de Almeida Siqueira Subject: commentwww id: Charles E. Peck - wink@southwind.net comments: A very interesting set of pages! As to the tensegrity mast in Washington D.C. - It is a piece by Kenneth Snelson. Many attribute the concept of tensegrity to him, and there are still bad feelings about how Bucky treated him. In many biographies you will find him listed as the creator of the first tensegrity structures while at Black Mountain College. He does mostly computer graphics stuff now and his little to say about Bucky. I can provide some more source material if you are interested. Wink CHarles E. Peck ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 09:35:38 -0300 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Kiyoshi Kuromiya Subject: Re: WGI Workshops Hi, Meddie-- We missed you at the MIT Bucky 100 event in Cambridge. It was followed by a two-day Campuan meeting hosted by Lim Chong Keat, with the help of Shirley Sharkey and Arthur Loeb. It was nice seeing some old faces: Francois DeChadenedes, Suzanne, Neva, Don Ricter, Shoji, Thomas Zung, Ed Applewhite, Amy and others. Critical Path project is testing out its new Web server this month and our Critical Path AIDS Project Web Page will go on line in a couple of weeks. Our Fuller Information Web page will follow shortly after that. We currently operate 8 phone lines (all with US Robotics Courier 28.8 kbps V.everything modems), but will increase to 16 phone lines sometime this summer as traffic increases. We are providing free Internet access to persons in the Philadelphia area and would offer World Game every courtesy. To reach our BBS and apply for a shell account, call on your modem: (215) 463-7160 and request a shell account into our Unix system--registration is online and free. We will shortly be issuing free software for accessing Internet services: Netscape, Free Agent (for Usenet newsgroups), Eudora (for email), FTP, Gopher, Telnet, Archie ... in other words, the full suite of Internet services. Our web site which will open in early May: http://www.critpath.org --Kiyoshi >Dear Joe, > >The Environmental World Game does attempt to deal with the issue(s) of renewable >energy and with the whole notion of sustainability (sustainable agriculture, >renewable energy, renewable resources, recycling, increasing efficiency of all >technology, etc.). In this simulation, there is "Green Technology" that >participants can obtain that will convert their technological systems from >non-sustainable to sustainable. > >We also have a design for a World Energy Game where all the issues of energy are >dealt with in much more depth. In order to pull this one off we need a grant >and/or a market where we can deliver this product and re-coup the development >costs. Two years ago we tried to get a grant to do the World Energy Game at a >wide variety of sites and for a wide variety of different organizations >(environmental, government, community, industry, etc.) and to use the game as a >serious policy exploration and development tool. We didn't get the grant. If >you know any other ways of realizing this tool, please let me know.... > >In the meantime, we will continue to try and find a way of making the World >Energy Game real. (We would also like to do a World Food Game, a World Health >Care Game, etc.) > >Regards, >Medard Gabel > _____________________________________________________________ Kiyoshi Kuromiya, Project Director Critical Path Project Email: kiyoshi@critpath.org Hotline: (215) 545-2212 (24-hr) Fax: (215) 735-2762 Internet: (215) 463-7160 Web Home Page: (under construction) Beeper: (800) 973-8084 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 09:51:46 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Re: High-Frequency Geodesic Dome (actually sphere) JPEG' In-Reply-To: ; from "George Hart" at Apr 25, 95 12:07 am George Hart writes: > > In article <3nf9ib$ed7@netaxs.com> cjf@netaxs.com (Chris Fearnley) writes: > >... If you want to see a 5-v > >and a 25-v geodesic sphere check out my web page... > > I have also been experimenting with geodesic constructions, but with > different goals and my own software. If you are interested, check out > my www page, where I have put up a few preliminary images: > > http://www.li.net/~george/pavilion.html > > As I am brand new to raytracing, your comments are very welcome. > > George Hart > .- > George, How about posting your program so that others could try it out and possibly make suggestions for additions and improvements? -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 09:53:39 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN STRATEGY CONTENTS OF 'COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN STRATEGY' BY R.BUCKMINSTER FULLER, 1967 1. MAN WITH A CHRONOFILE (Saturday Review, 4-1-67) (1 Pic) 2. CURRICULUM CHANGES INTENDED TO PREPARE INDIVIDUAL TO TAKE DESIGN INITIATIVE A. Take Initiative B. Study Whole Industry C. Each University Study Different Industry 3. DESIGN STRATEGY A. Introduction B. Strategic Questions (40) C. Dominant Concepts (14) 4. FORM OF ANSWERING INVITATIONS TO UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES A. Introduction B. Terms and Conditions C. Costs 5. VISION '65 KEYNOTE ADDRESS (Southern Illinois Univ, 10-21-65) (1 Pic) 6. VISION '65 SUMMARY ADDRESS (Southern Illinois Univ, 10-23-65) 7. WORLD GAME--HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WORK 8. APPENDICES A. Three Student Project Documentation Briefs with Photos & Illustrations 1) McGill University School of Architecture, 9-57 ( 1 Fig, 5 Pics) 2) Washington Univ School of Architecture, 12-54 (10 Figs, 1 Pic) 3) Tulane University Architecture Class, 2-54 (13 Figs, 1 Pic) B. R.Buckminster Booklist 1) Books about Fuller 2) Books by Fuller, already Published 3) Books by Fuller, to be Published 4) Books by Fuller, Out of Print 5) Lectures by Fuller (NO INDEX) -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 06:14:48 GMT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: 127 House Organization: 127 House Subject: Geodisnic Sphere? Eh? Friends: In all my readings of R. Buckminster Fuller, and all my discussions with Dr. Ignatz Topo of the World Institute of Ride Theory and Journal, I have never seen a reference by Fuller of the EPCOT Geosphere nor by Disny (& co.) on Fuller, yet obviously... OBVIOUSLY... there was some 'influence' one upon the other. This is significant because, to the best of my knowledge, this was the only full geodesic sphere (others were half or 3/4 spheres -- domes, you might call them). And what are we to make of the six foot difference between the Geosphere and the 1939 World's Fair of NYC Perisphere? Eh? I thank you. O N E T W E N T Y S E V E N H O U S E 127 House | h o u s e 1 2 7 @ t e l e p o r t . c o m P. O . Box 2321 | http://www.teleport.com/~house127/index.html Portland OR 97208 USA | ftp : ftp . teleport . com /users /house127 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 09:31:28 GMT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Pekka Koski Organization: University of Oulu Subject: Re: Passive Solar House Heating Lectures in the Philadelphia Area In-Reply-To: nick@vu-vlsi.ee.vill.edu's message of 25 Apr 1995 09:17:10 -0400 The unit "Btu" used in this article was not at all familiar to me. Could someone please explain it? -- ...................................................................... Pekka Koski = koski@rieska.oulu.fi - CRIS #2351 ThreadNeck -=FAF=- home(+int)358-81-347892 data/fax358-81-5542604 cellular358-400-586946 ...................................................................... Windws is ine for bckgroun comunicaions - Bll Gats, 192 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 09:26:04 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Nick Pine Organization: Villanova University Subject: radiant heating I'm not sure how many bitnet people read alt.architecture.alternative, but perhaps some don't, might find this interesting... Article: 3342 of alt.architecture.alternative From: nick@vu-vlsi.ee.vill.edu (Nick Pine) Subject: Re: radiant heating questions Date: 27 Apr 1995 09:16:30 -0400 Organization: Villanova University Scott Ehrenberg wrote: > 2) There are some instances where the pipes go into the walls but >they are rare, and never the ceiling that I know of ( heat rises ). Norman Saunders' Experimental Manor has radiant heat in the ceiling. In his _Solar Heating Basics_, self-published, 4th edition, 1976 book, he mentions another unusual system: Dr. Clarence A. Mills was a professor of Experimental Medicine at the University of Cincinnati for 32 years... In 1950 he moved into what could be called an unheated house which he named Reflection Point Research Residence... As he said "I was trying to design the ideal human indoor environment and mix in the lowest cost." The heating system Dr. Mills used in his home was a combination heating trough heat reflective surface system. The walls of his rooms were covered with a heat reflective material which looked like ordinary wallpaper. (It was aluminum foil with a special dyed lacquer overprint.) Along the edge where the wall meets the ceiling he hung C-shaped troughs open to the whole ceiling. Inside the troughs he laid heating and cooling pipes. Dr. Mills showed that radiant heat could warm a person at low room temperatures and therefore saved energy that would ordinarily have gone into bringing the room air to a higher temperature than necessary. Heat from the pipes was reflected by the ceiling to the walls where in turn the heat was again reflected until it struck a person or the furniture. What Dr. Mills thought was that high radiant heat and a low room air temperature was the healthiest indoor environment a person could have. References: For color pictures of wallpaper see Mills, Reflective Radiant Conditioning, House Beautiful, 1950 Oct. p 179-- For claims see Mills, Reflective Radiant Conditioning, Reflectotherm, Inc, 1955, Cincinnati, Ohio For performance see Mills, More Comfort at Less Cost, Refrigeration Engineering, 1955, January Also see Mills, Recent Advances in Reflective Radiant Cooling, Ind. Heating Eng. 1956 Mr. Saunders adds: Feb. V16 N35 has the amazing statements: that living processes liberate energy in radiant form at 100 - 400 micrometer wavelengths to which the body tissues are largely transparent, so that the mean radiant temperature is around 35 C. It would seem the full implications of this are as yet to be realized. I wonder what he meant by that... The book goes on: Mr. Saunders in 1959 estimated the heat load that would be imposed upon Dr. Mills' troughs if used in Experimental Manor under quite extreme conditions. To maximize comfort with no air movement an effective temperature of 19 C is required. Ignoring humidity the following were calculated: For -25 C outside at night; single glazed double glazed Power input to trough 3840 2560 watts Air temperature 15 16 C Ceiling temperature 13.5 15 C Floor 22 21 C Interior walls 18 18 C Block walls 14 13 C Inner surface of glass -14 1 C Power input were air heating used 4275 2660 watts So the troughs alone without reflective room surfaces seemed uneconomic. Other calculations showed that radiant reflective inner surfaces on the outside walls alone might save 13% of the heat lost under the above conditions. Ten per cent would be saved because of the greater thermal resistance imparted to the walls and three percent more because of the permissable reduction in room temperature. Mills' teaching was used in Experimental Manor only in that the major heat source was the ceiling panels. Overhead radiant heat is expected to be the principle heat source in future buildings. Nick ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 13:03:50 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: THE ECOLOGICAL CONTEXT CONTENTS OF 'THE ECOLOGICAL CONTEXT: ENERGY & MATERIALS' BY JOHN MCHALE, 1967 LIST OF CHARTS AND TABLES PREFACE BY JOHN MCHALE 1. AN OVERVIEW A. Introduction B. Negative and Positive Aspects (6 Charts) C. Readings List 2. MAN AND THE BIOSPHERE A. Man and the Biosphere 1) Introduction (3 Charts) 2) Readings List B. Environ Systems 1) Atmosphere (3 Charts) 2) Terrestrial (1 Chart) 3) Marine (1 Chart) 4) The Major Cycles (1 Chart) 5) Readings List C. Human Systems 1) Biophysical (4 Charts) 2) Psychosocial 3) Technological (5 Charts) 4) Readings List 3. ENERGY A. Introduction (4 Charts) B. Major Energy Sources (1 Chart) C. Present Energy Use Distributions (1 Chart) D. Resource and Use Diversification (3 Charts) E. Energy Conversion Efficiency (2 Charts) F. Readings List 4. MATERIALS A. Introduction (3 Charts) B. Key Metals (2 Charts) C. Other Key Metals D. Metal Reserves and Future Uses E. The Synthesis of Materials (9 Charts) F. Readings List 5. TOWARDS THE FUTURE A. Introduction B. A New Symbiosis C. Social Design 6. APPENDIX: THE WORLD DESIGN SCIENCE DECADE (NO INDEX) -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 09:39:04 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: BUCKY ORGS ORGANIZATIONS PROMOTING R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER'S IDEAS Updated by Joe S. Moore 4-28-95 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUCKMINSTER FULLER INSTITUTE 2040 Alameda Padre Serra, Suite 224 Santa Barbara, CA 93103 USA Tony DeVarco, Executive Director E-MAIL: BFI@AOL.COM TEL: 805-962-0022 FAX: 805-962-4440 NEWSLETTER: "TRIMTAB" PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS CATALOG: "DYMAXION ARTIFACTS": BOOKS, AUDIO & VIDEOTAPES, MODELS, MAPS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GLOBAL ENERGY NETWORK INTERNATIONAL (GENI) P.O. Box 81565 San Diego, CA 92138 USA Peter Meisen, Executive Director E-MAIL: GENI@CERF.NET TEL: 619-595-0139 FAX: 619-595-0403 NEWSLETTER: "GENI" PRESENTATIONS, CONFERENCES CATALOG: VIDEO TAPES, DOCUMENTS, BROCHURES, REPORTS, MAPS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORLD GAME INSTITUTE 3215 Race Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA Medard Gabel, Executive Director E-MAIL: XTM00002@DUVM.OCS.DREXEL.EDU TEL: 215-387-0220 FAX: 215-387-3009 NEWSLETTER: "REPORT" VARIOUS WORKSHOPS CATALOG: BOOKS, VIDEOTAPES, COMPUTER SOFTWARE, MAPS, DATA SHEETS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CRITICAL PATH PROJECT, INC. 2062 Lombard Street Philadelphia, PA 19146 USA Kiyoshi Kuromiya, Project Director E-MAIL: KIYOSHI@CRITPATH.ORG TEL: 215-545-2212 FAX: 215-735-2762 COMPUTER BULLETIN BOARD: "FULLER INFORMATION EXCHANGE" (FIX): 215-463-7160 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SYNERGETICS INSTITUTE 5-4 Nakajima-cho, Naka-ku Hiroshima 730 JAPAN Yoshiaki Araki E-MAIL:T93827YA@SFC.KEIO.AC.JP TEL: +81-46-543-3454 FAX: +81-46-543-3103 COMPUTER SOFTWARE (GEOMETRY) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 02:07:43 -0400 Reply-To: WorldGamer Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: WorldGamer Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Subject: Re: WORLD GAME ON CD Actually, the CD is a Microsoft CD Atlas, and WGI is doing research for it... ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 09:26:11 -0500 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Andy Lewis Subject: subscribe Andy Lewis ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 13:06:45 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Walt Lockley Subject: Shoji Sadao Can anyone give me an idea of what Shoji Sadao is doing these days, and a phone number or Email address for him? Is his still in Raleigh? Thanks! Walt klockley@delphi.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 21:17:18 -0400 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: David Heeney IndEco Strategic Consulting Inc Subject: Re: WORLD GAME ON CD X-To: WorldGamer >Actually, the CD is a Microsoft CD Atlas, and WGI is doing research for >it... Will the CD atlas use the dymaxion projection? ----------------------------------------------------------- David Heeney IndEco Strategic Consulting Inc Surfing the Web? try http:// www.io.org/~heeney ----------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 23:16:35 -0300 Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Kiyoshi Kuromiya Subject: Re: Shoji Sadao Walt-- Shoji Sadao is the Executive Director of the Isamu Noguchi Museum and Foundation in Long Island City, NY. --Kiyoshi Kuromiya >Can anyone give me an idea of what Shoji Sadao is doing these days, >and a phone number or Email address for him? Is his still in Raleigh? > >Thanks! >Walt >klockley@delphi.com > _____________________________________________________________ Kiyoshi Kuromiya, Project Director Critical Path Project Email: kiyoshi@critpath.org Hotline: (215) 545-2212 (24-hr) Fax: (215) 735-2762 Internet: (215) 463-7160 Web Home Page: (under construction) Beeper: (800) 973-8084 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 13:22:48 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: Re: Enjoy the newsgroup X-To: AMKALENAK@aol.com In-Reply-To: <950429231652_101211181@aol.com>; from "AMKALENAK@aol.com" at Apr 29, 95 11:16 pm AMKALENAK@aol.com writes: > > I see your name on alot of the postings in bit.listserv.geodesic. > Thanks for the information . I found several publications I wasn't aware of. > > Could you give me a short description of the original purpose of > bit.listserv.geodesic. > > Thanks again. > > Tony > .- > It's all about the ideas and work of the inventor R.Buckminster Fuller. His most famous invention was the geodesic dome, but his most important achievement was the discovery of the geometry that Nature uses to build everything, which he called Synergetics. Joe -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 13:29:17 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: GEOSCOPE Richard Henderson writes: > From netcom5.netcom.com!netcom.com!ffunch Sun Apr 30 01:12:32 1995 > Message-Id: <199504300718.AAA22542@netcom5.netcom.com> > X-Sender: ffunch@netcom.com > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 00:21:37 -0700 > To: wholeinfo-l-outgoing@netcom.com > From: Richard Henderson > Subject: Re: Ask, and ye shall...(world mirror!) > > apologies to anyone who's seen this before, but I thought it might > interest a few people in light of the Geosphere Visual Library > thread. The following article appeared in the Sunday Times newspaper > here in Britain about a month ago: > > SEE EARTH THROUGH EYES OF ASTRONAUTS > Christopher Lloyd > > A British company has designed what it claims is the world's first > computer screen in the shape of a globe. It will be used to create a > model of what the Earth looks like from outer space. > > The Live Earth, as it is called, is the brainchild of Ecodome, a > company based in Fulham, London. It will form one of the main > attractions at a UKP240m environmental theme park to be built next > year on a 350-acre site near Chesterfield, Derbyshire. > > Visitors to the park will be shown a view of the world previously > reserved for astronauts. A 12.5-metre globe - one millionth the size > of the Earth - will revolve within a 90-metre 'ecosphere', a dome in > which visitors will walk down a spiralling walkway and be able to > view the earth as if they were astronauts in space. > > Rupert Carr, managing director of Ecodome, says the high-tech globe > has been made possible by sophisticated new optics and electronics > that allow computerised images to be projected from within a sphere. > > The projection system, pioneered by a Guilford company called Knight > Optical Technologies, uses a cluster of 350 projectors that form the > nucleus of the globe. These throw computer images on to the surface > of the globe as it rotates. > > Layers of different images can be projected so that information from > other databases can be superimposed on the globe's surface. These > include details about the weather, geology, ozone layer and rising > sea levels taken from the Meteorological Office database and the > British Antarctic Survey. > > "For the first time people will have the chance to see the Earth as > it is from space," says Carr. "And because we will be connecting the > projection system with data feeds from all over the world the > experience will be different each time a person walks around the > globe. We are calling it The Live Earth for that reason." > > The information that can be illustrated on the globe includes: the > effect of magnetic fields on the Earth's surface and solar wind; > details about the atmosphere and the tides; volcanic activity, > vegetation types, the migration of animals, birds and people; > population densities and pollution. > > "We will also have news feeds from the BBC and CNN and an on-site > editorial team to zoom in on hot-spots around the world," says Carr. > > As people walk around the globe on the spiral walkway, windows will > appear giving the latest information about current events in > countries in the news. It will also be possible to recreate political > and geological maps of the world of past times - they could, for > example, show how the second world war changed the political and > national borders of Europe, or how the ice age changed the world's > topography. > > A World Wide Web version of The Live Earth is also planned so that > Internet users can get access to the data on their personal > computers. > > The Live Earth will be the main attraction in the theme park, forming > the central feature in one of two domes. These will feature their own > ecological and atmospheric conditions comprising polar, tropical rain > forest and desert environments. Leisure and outdoor activities will > form other components of the park, dubbed a 'leisure university' by > Carr and his team. > > After the park has been developed, Carr plans to license The Live > Earth for use in museums, theme parks and other educational centres. > > *-----http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/hpp?GoatBoy.html-----* > > hello, excuse me.. could you tell me where I am? > > > > > .- > -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 13:31:48 PDT Reply-To: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works Sender: List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's works From: Joe Moore Subject: WORLD MIRROR (fwd) Bob Hiltner writes: > From netcom5.netcom.com!netcom.com!ffunch Sun Apr 30 01:18:52 1995 > Message-Id: <199504300718.AAA22533@netcom5.netcom.com> > X-Sender: ffunch@netcom.com > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 00:21:22 -0700 > To: wholeinfo-l-outgoing@netcom.com > From: Bob Hiltner > Subject: Ask, and ye shall...(world mirror!) > > RECEIVE! (Geosphere Visual Library) > > I don't know how it's escaped notice of the folks on the list here, or > the Bucky Fullerites either, for that matter, but I just saw a feature on > The Discovery Channel's "World of Wonder." > > Kirby wanted, with his concept for the world mirror project, for people > to be able to see a map or globe, and discover current information about > happenings, resources, history, etc. This would be a great tool for > enabling an average curious person to find out about the world around, > how systems interact, play "what if?" games, and so forth. > > The program segment (of which I saw only the last portion) was about a > program developed by Tom Van Sant called Geosphere Visual Library. Mr. > Van Sant, with the help of NASA's (?) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, stitched > together actual satellite images to form a complete virtual globe. All > clouds were absent in one view (I believe they said they'd been > "removed"). One could easily see such things as major river watersheds, > mountains, etc., so geographically speaking, it was a great learning tool > to start with. But underlying this was the ability to click on any area, > and have access to 7 different databases, visually oriented so the even a > child could participate. A couple of clicks, and the user can see what > areas of North America have been logged, and where there are second growth > and old growth forests. A couple more clicks and the user can find out > about whales and their actual migration patterns. Another couple clicks > to see weather patterns of a year compressed down to moments whereby one > can "see" the formation of winter ice packs or monsoons hitting > bangladesh. > > In the next version, Mr. Van Sant (I hope I'm spelling his name > correctly!) was planning on adding more databases and more sophistication. > > He spoke of "situation rooms" for tracking scenarios and unfolding > events, as well as historical information (sounding very much like the > next generation of Bucky Fuller's World Game.) The main purpose, he stated, > was for people to be able to see systems in action, and the interactions > between systems on a big scale. > > All I can say is, WOW!!! I kept thinking about this World Mirror project > and how I/we might be able to *begin* to make it a reality, and Tom Van > Sant has gone and DONE it! > > So, I suppose the next thing would be to get him on THIS list, if we can > find him, that is. Then I would dearly love to know more about this > project, and figure out how to spread it around. > > (Do I sound excited? I suppose I am just a bit excited! ;-) Has anyone > else seen this show or heard of this program? Or did *I* DISCOVER it > (like Columbus *discovered* America I suppose!) :-) > > > Bob Hiltner > "It is not enough to do well (and I hope you do), you must also do good" > ^^^^ > > > > > .- > -- JOE S MOORE joemoore@cruzio.com TEL: 408-464-3743 850 PARK AVE, # 3-A FAX: 408-479-0733 CAPITOLA, CA 95010 I hereby declare this post to be in the public domain.