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Zerraspace — Bone Tree Spinal Truss
Published: 2012-06-28 14:35:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 1237; Favourites: 5; Downloads: 4
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This is another image for the Zainter project, although not in the conventional sense. With any luck, the 3D portrayal lends to the understanding of the figure. What you see here is the spinal truss of the bone trees, evolved from the shell they possessed earlier as hexabrachia.For more information, refer to the Speculative Evolution forum, Remake of Zainter.
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At first I considered smaller bone trees having whippy stalks, but I figured they'd need a little more support than that. I don't remember how I first came up with this, but I was taking Statics that semester...
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It seems like a concept I should have been aware of from my Statics course. It is that course which gave me the idea for using spinal trusses (interestingly, Gert van Djik posted information regarding trusses for use in his rusps at about the same time as we covered this lesson), partially due to two interesting properties. Trusses can bear enormous forces, however by removing the proper member they become capable of rotation. It is on this basis that I built the "lightweight" skeleton, with compressible members that could allow the tree some degree of flexibility.
A tensegrity-based structure seems quite plausible, and I can already see one based on the X-Module design and fullerene beams. Once I can get the geometry around my head, it's good to go. Thank you, AmnioticOef.
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No problem! Can't wait to see it.
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Do you know what tensegrity is?
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It might be interesting to see this support concept applied to trees.
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Sorry; I posted the comment separately. Wish I knew how to delete my missteps here...
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