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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

  1. RBF Intro. to H. Kenner's "Geodesic Math," p.27, 8 Sep'75

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