i made a TENSEGRITY-model, and so can you

[vatrenikrug]

Nice ,thank you ...

we made a geodesic dome :))) not the same thing but also nice :)

[MrPgpipe]

thanks man very usefull.

[omgoadwtf]

Whats the point in this

[kurtilein3]

@omgoadwtf

you can build these structures. they have been used in architecture. they could be useful in space exploration. knowing about this is a piece of information that might be helpful to you if you actually want to build new, innovative stuff in reality.

[omgoadwtf]

@kurtilein3 Well, i'm sure nasa will be interested in your tensegrity model.

[rcoldman]

@kurtilein3 Thanks for posting this video. It's of great practical value. Between our bones and our connective tissue, our body also functions naturally as a tensegrity structure, but we can develop this further by unlearning some of our poor body/mind use. The value in terms of quality of life is beyond belief.

[maryonettertee]

gutentag herr geometer

ich machdas gleiche wie du, schon seit 2 jahren.

wohnst du zufällig in berlin?

man könnte sich ja mal austauschen

:)

greetz

maryio

[TomkinEuler]

Danke! see my little vid, at Tomkin Euler's channel.. I used rigid cables, magnet wire, and did not get the flexible nature of your model. I used an assembly jig to maintain the dimensions between struts.

See you later..

[vaqueragalactica]

thanks for making this video! im stufying architecture in Mexico and it was very helpfull!! thanks a lot! :)

[scribe94]

Sergiuss555 ...

What is it with people like you? So if you

aren't interested (not "interesting") in looking

at his face "that long", why did you? Why would

you stop long enough to comment? Why

wouldn't you just leave. I rather liked his face and especially the sincerity and excitement and willingness to share his experimentation.

Perhaps someone else will seize what he's done and make some wonderful new improvement (that maybe your children will live in at 1/3rd of the price someday?

[Sergiuss555]

sorry it's not interesting to look at your face that long..

[parturisco]

warum hast du nicht alle seiten vom ikosaeder gemacht? nicht nötig für die stabilität oder?

ich werde demnächst das selbe bauen, da ich aber zwanzig meter elastisches seil gefunden habe werde ich metallstangen zu jeweils ca. 1,50 meter nehmen!

danke dass du mich auf die tensegrity idee gebracht hast!

[kurtilein3]

da würde ich dir raten erstmal ein kleineres modell zu bauen, um ein gefühl für die sache bekommst.

bedenke auch, dass das gummiseil nicht nur das gewicht der stangen tragen muss, weil das ganze zusätzlich ja noch innere spannung hat. und dann sollte es immernoch elastisch sein. du solltest also beachten dass das gummiseil nicht an den rand der elastizität kommt, auch wenn es ein mehrfaches vom gewicht einer solchen stange tragen muss.

viel erfolg jedenfalls!

[parturisco]

ok

danke

[shalashaska615]

This tensegrity stuff is smart and interesting. I'm sure they have a future but, I cannot get past the idea that if a single link is broken then the structure breaks catastrophically. They don't just fall down but implode.

[kurtilein3]

thats actually not correct, if a single link breaks, then the structure nearby will get out of shape, but why should it spread?

the tensegrity i showed in the video is so simple that it will be flat if one of the sticks breaks, and very much distorted if one of the strings breaks. but that is not true for more complex ones with hundreds of connections, there lokal damage will only cause local shape distortions.

[4sineweaver2]

Very interesting video. Perhaps we'll see large structures used in space eventually.

[parturisco]

haha,

du hast was tolles gebastelt!

deine englischausssprache ist miserabel!

[gunblade64]

Then you make one and show it to us while talking in your fluently English...

[parturisco]

did i say anything wrong?

[gunblade64]

yes

[Yesitis808]

cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tomterahedrob]

plastic ball point pen tubes!save everyone yousee!theyre ideal!

[kurtilein3]

trunks of trees are great as well ;) but then you probarbly need to use very strong rope or even steel rope to connect the pieces and get them to levitate.

[imaginenoreligion]

I made one today.

It was pretty fiddly. Been fiddling with modular origami also recently. That might also interest you. Google it.

Thanks for all my new subscribers. They all seem to be coming from you.

[kurtilein3]

im going through my new subscribers regularly, and leave a message that includes a list of youtube-channels they might want to check out. but i have been lazy lately, didnt do it during the last days. i still have the emails, if its effective then i guess i should continue.

the updated list: rabidape, philhellenes, capnordinary, imaginenoreligion, rozeboosje, cdk007, desertphile, atheistTV, xenutv1, NDclark, joebot1, torymagoo44, neotropic9, maLasonja2, investigateislam...

[johndoe121213]

I've always hated teachers!!to think one stole his students idea.Why are teachers always put in charge of others?they just cant really be trusted

[kurtilein3]

his student still managed to make a living by making tensegrity-models and selling them to galleries, as art. so its not all that bad.

[ThankYouJerryGarcia]

I've been dreaming of making a TENSEGRITY stair case.

[kurtilein3]

that would be amazing, especially outdoors. indoor it would be quite a waste of space, unless you have it somewhere at the centre of the building where it has representative purposes. it would be quite challenging, but im sure it would be possible to have all stairs ``levitating´´.

[ThankYouJerryGarcia]

I've been looking at existing ones and it would be very difficult to make a functional staircase. The house design I hope to build one day will have a three story section in the center where I imagined the tensegrity would fit nicely if possible.

[kurtilein3]

maybe you could start with a large tensegrity that has the required shape and has enough space inside for a stairway, and then you need two ropes and have all the stairs hanging below those two ropes like in a simple suspension bridge. they would still be moving like the hanging seats you have on playgrounds, but im sure you could stabilize them with additional ropes.

[aggadan]

Kurt i had no idea you where a model maker. Your the Knew age buckminster fuller. Good JOB 5 STARS

[phenixwryter]

"I've been throwing it out of the window from the fifth floor..." Lol-how cool.

I'll bet your neighbors are fascinated by you. : )

[kurtilein3]

they never complain. and, well, im a juggler, so its actually quite strange that the people living below me never contact me...

[lapislazuline]

"Look at this beauty" 5 stars!

[premed411]

Very cool.

[themilitantatheist]

Ahh they are cool. I have seen the work of Snelson before but never considered making one myself... Doh!

I think I will have a bash at one. Now what to use as sticks... Hmmmm...

[kurtilein3]

if you are actually making your own model, you could do a short video-response ^^

[Klarkster]

Kurt you crazy fool.. Nice structure bud :D

[thekid19921]

cool video

[munkoloid]

OoOOoOoooooOooooooo!!!

I'm going to make one with my little guy.

=D

[kurtilein3]

perhaps you could make a quick video about it :)

[xy11xy]

Much more interesting than bobbing adam's apples.

[TheGiggler1]

You are the next Buckminster Fuller!

[TheGiggler1]

Oops, sorry. I wrote Fuller's name before the video was over and you mentioned Fuller.

[M0nsterZero]

nice stuff... interesting to me as an architect ;)

[TheGreatestGreatApe]

I think I can make one in the game I'm modding, the physics should allow it ;) .

[colleen3217]

Fascinating! Is there a how-to on how to make one? Looks like an ass pain.

[kurtilein3]

i used rubber and put a lot of tension into it, so i had some issues with parts flying through the room... but its much easier if you use normal threads/ropes. it will be less flexible, but will probarbly even look better.

note that all threads have the same length, the same is true for the sticks, at least if you use one of the highly-symmetrical designs. shouldnt be that difficult ^^

[colleen3217]

Damn it! I looked up a million different tutorials, none of which were what I was looking for. (All of them had straws that you loop the rubber through - I too have barbecue kebab sticks). Would you mind messaging me the url of the tutorial you used? I'd be much obliged. :)

[kurtilein3]

well, then i have bad news for you... i made this one without an tutorial, i just looked at pictures of the complete thing.

but im sure that there are tutorials for other interesting designs/models ;)

[dexterbill]

Den Turmbau zu Babel hätte man damit realisieren sollen...

[Dashes000]

That is fucking awesome!

[SuperJewNinjaAttack]

Thank you for the upload, I really enjoyed your video. I'll have to check out ``tensegrity´´

[kurtilein3]

if you find some good links then you can post them here, ill include them in the description box if i like them ^^

[SuperJewNinjaAttack]

(Off Topic) Have you read anything by Krishnamurti? If you have any recommendations

for any good books or authors let me know? I have insomnia and reading helps out on some occasions. Thank You again, if i find anything on tensegrity i will notify you ^_-

[kurtilein3]

some time ago, i started a project called ``the book review challenge´´. i got some responses, all of them are really great book-reviews, books about important topics related to science, religion/atheism, society. im sure that you will find some interesting stuff in the video-responses ^^ just search my videos for ``book´´

[nadiaTeeze]

very neat.