Trees (3)
Index Entry
Trees:
"With the liquids distributing loads and the gases absorbing
shocks, and the predesigned (DNA-RNA) overall high tension
crystalline tension fiber network (like a football skin) control-
ling the overall tree (or other biological) shapes to be produced
(when filled out with the liquids), we find the system transmit-
ting its hydraulic load distribution impulses through each
liquid-filled cell's contacts with adjacent liquid-loaded sacs.
"Starting with one tetrahedral bud shoot, the tree grows as a
series of concentric tetrahedral cones--revolved tetrahedra
generate cones. Constant reorienting of the direction from
which the Sun radiation is coming, and the frequent shift in
wind direction and consequent drag forces on the tetra-tree,
produce a conic revolution effect on the tree growth. Each
year a new cambium-layer cone grows over the entire outside of
the previous year's tetra-cone. Each branch of the tree also
starts as a tetrahedral-shoulder-cone sprouted out from the
main cone.
"This high-tension sac's web design with its hydraulic-compress-
ion coping and pneumatic shock absorbing is much the same
structural system nature employs in the design of humans."
Citations
- RBF Intro. to H. Kenner's "Geodesic Math," p.27, 8 Sep'75
