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Copyright 2003 by Greg Watson
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2. Introduction
3. Who Was Buckminster Fuller? 4. I made up my mind as a Rule of Communication that I wouldn't care if I was not understood--so long as I was not misunderstood. 5. Bucky
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INVENTOR 7. Patents & Honors
8. " A true renaissance man and one of the greatest minds of our times, Richard Buckminster Fuller's contribution as a geometrician, educator, and architect-designer are the benchmarks of accomplishment in their fields. Among his most notable inventions and discoveries are synergetic geometry, geodesic structures, and tensegrity structures. Mr. Fuller reminds us all that America is a place of pioneers, haven for innovation and the free expression of ideas". Buckminster Fuller's Medal of Freedom citation, received from President Reagan in 1981 reads as follows: 9. What Was He Trying To Do?
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12. Technology As Pure Principle
Special Case(Application) 13. There is no energy crisis, food crisis or environmental crisis. There is a crisis of ignorance. Buckminster Fuller 14. Why Is He Important?
15. Synergy
16. Principle of Synergetic Advantage
17. Principle of Synergetic Advantage
18. Linear Addition + = 2 1 + 1 = 19. Synergetic Addition + = 4 1 + 1 = 20. Emergent Properties Closest packing of tetrahedra can only be accomplished with octahedra 21. Whole Systems Thinking
22. Whole Systems Corollaries
23. Lack of understanding of whole systems is the source of our crisis of ignorance 24. Spaceship Earth 25.
You Are Aboard a Spaceship 26. Where there is no vision, The people perish Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841 27.
In Other Words Yogi Berra 28. 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 6 7 10 11 12 Design Science Planning Process 29. Design Science Planning Process Choose Problem Situation 1 Define Problems 2 Define Preferred State 3 Describe Present State 4 30. Design Preferred System 5 Inventory Alternatives 6 Develop Evaluation Criteria 7 Develop Implementation Strategies 8 Document Process 9 Develop Artifacts 10 Communicate Plan 11 Initiate Larger Planning Process 12 31. Seeing Nature Whole
32. Natures Coordinate System
33. Natures Polyhedral Design 34. Systems A system is the first subdivision of Universe into a conceivable entity separating all that is nonsimultaneously and geometrically outside the system, ergo irrelevant, from all that is nonsimultaneously and geometrically inside and irrelevant to the system Buckminster Fuller.Synergetics 35. Polyhedra
36. Tetrahedron
37. Laws of Form [A] universe comes into being when a space is severed or taken apart. The skin of a living organism cuts off an outside from an inside. So does the circumference of a circle in a plane. By tracing the way we represent such a severance, we can begin to reconstruct, with an accuracy and coverage that appear almost uncanny, the basic forms underlying linguistic, mathematical, physical, and biological science, and can begin to see how the familiar laws of our own experience follow inexorably from the original act of severance. The act is itself already remembered, even if unconsciously, as our first attempt to distinguish different things in a world where, in the first place, the boundaries can be drawn anywhere we please.G. Spencer Brown 38. Natures Polyhedral Design Pollen Hive 39. Volvox- freshwater colonial protozoan Geodesic Dome 40. Buckminsterfullerenes 41. Natures Tensegrity Design Strategy Scientific American January 1998 42. Structural Synergy + = Spheres have largest volume-to-surface ratio but are easily deformed by gravity and other forces Tetrahedra have smallest volume-to-surface ration, but are structurally rigid Geodesic Dome: Maximum space enclosure/structural integrity 43. Precession
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45. Precessional Winds 46. Applied Precession 47. Tensegrity
48. Ephemeralization
49. Design Science
Ocean Arks InternationalsLiving Machines . 50. Dymaxion Map
51. Dy namic +max imum + tens ion=Dymaxion .Creating ever more life support using less and less resourcesBy using the Dymaxion Map in combination with the enormous database resources and computer graphics available today, it is now highly feasible to accurately and clearly display the inventory of world resources, trends and needs in multiple dimensions 52. Copyleft 1995 Christopher Rywalt. 53. Call Me Trimtab Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Marythe whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And theres a tiny thing on the edge of the rudder called a trim-tab. Its a miniature rudder. Just moving that little trim-tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trim-tab. Society thinks its going right by you, that its left you altogether. But if youre doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go. So I said, Call me Trimtab. -Excerpted from R. Buckminster Fuller tape transcript for Barry Farrell for Playboy interview, 2/1972. 54. Trimtab Principle
55. Synergetics Synergetics, the comprehensive geometry I have systematized, unlike all other systems ofgeometry, incorporates both the physical and themetaphysical.The metaphysical involves that which can be experienced but is independent of size and is weightless and energyless, i.e. qualitative rather than quantitative. R. Buckminster Fuller 56. 4-Dimensional Coordinate System Vector Equilibrium x y z CartesianCoordinates 57. Radiation and Gravity Disintegrative radiation and integrative gravity in symbiosis describe the elusive object of the quest for a unified field. 58. Closest Packing 59. 2 Frequency Triangle 1 2 60. 3 Frequency Triangle 1 2 3 61. Closest packed spheres in a plane 60 o 62. Twelve spheres around center sphere 63. Vector Equilibrium 64. 0-frequency 10f 2 +2 = 12 65. 66. 2-frequency 10f 2 +2 = 42 67. 68. 3-frequency 10f 2 +2 = 92 69. 70. Isotropic Vector Matrix 71. Centers of Vector Equilibrium 72. 73. Copyright 1977 Mark DiamondJitterbug Transformations 74. Jitterbug Transformations 75. a 2+ b 2= c 2 a b c a b c 76. b 2 a 2 c 2 + = 77. a b c 78. The Case of theGhost Cube . . . . . . . . H W D 79. Parts of Whole System . . . . . . . . Vertex Face Edge 80. . . . . . . 81. Doing More With Less
82. "His life was so important that it shines almost with the same intensity now that it did when he had it." --John Cage