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 | A | -module, 
167, 
189-192, 191, 
199, 
208, 
214- 215 |  |  | defining new framework, 
193, 
203-205 |  |  | energy characteristics, 
194-195, 
198 net, 
194, 195 |  |  | volume, 
201-204 |  |  | see also 
Mite, 
Valving |  | A | lloys, 
4, 
33, 
246, 
268 |  |  | chrome-nickel steel, 
34 |  | A | ngle types, definition of, 
79-81, 81 |  |  | axial , central, dihedral, surface, 
79 |  | A | ngular topology, 
65-81 (Chapter 6), 
69 |  |  | principle of, 
75-77 |  |  | "720-degree excess," 
77-79 |  |  | "takeout angle," 
75-79, 
264 |  | A | rchitecture, 
1, 
18, 
81, 
141, 
239, 
243, 
245 |  |  | housing, 
261-262 |  | A | vogadro, Amadeo, 
125, 
127, 
143 | 
 
 
 | B | -module, 167, 
189-192, 192, 
199, 
208, 
214, 215 |  |  | energy characteristics, 
194-195, 
198, 
202-204 |  |  | net, 
194, 195 |  |  | volume, 
201-204 |  |  | see also 
Mite, 
Valving |  | B | icycle wheel, 
94, 95, 
249-250, 
267 |  | B | lack Mountain College, 
251 |  | B | ohr, Niels, 
179 |  | B | oltzmann, Ludwig, 
85 |  | B | ookshelf, see 
Hanging bookshelf |  | B | owties, see 
Great circles |  | B | rain-Mind distinction, 
13, 
259, 
269 |  | B | uckminster Fuller Institute, 
255, 
265 | 
 
 
 | C | arbon atoms |  |  | carbon fiber, 
246-247 |  |  | diamond versus graphite, 
29, 
142 |  |  | general bonding of, 
174 |  | C | hinese physicists, Tsung Dao Lee and Ning Yang, 179 |  | C | losepacked spheres, sphere packing, 
9, 
18, 
100-126 (Chapter 8), 127-128, 
132-133, 
138, |  |  | 154, 
164, 
175, 
178, 
183, 
189, 
201, 
227 |  |  | cubic versus hexagonal, 
104-105, 
106-107 |  |  | formula for total numbers of spheres, 
115-116, 
118-119, 
238 |  |  | icosahedron and sphere packing, 
117, 
118, 
159; see also 
Shell systems |  |  | mathematical challenge, 
102-106, 
108 |  |  | nests, 
103, 
107, 
111, 
115, 
120-121 |  |  | planes of symmetry, 
106-107 |  |  | tetrahedral clusters, 
108, 
110-114, 
120 |  |  | triangulation, 
117 |  |  | vector equilibrium and sphere packing, 
101-102, 
103-106, 
107, 
114-116, 
159 |  |  | see also 
Nuclear spheres |  | C | omplementarity 
131, 
178-180 |  |  | quanta: A- and B-modules, 
192, 
193-195 |  |  | concave-convex, tension-compression, and other pairs, 
30, 
133, 
179, 
244 |  |  | fundamental complementarity in physics, 
179, 
192, 
195 |  |  | inherent complementarity of Universe, 133, 
158, 
178-179 |  |  | of octahedron and tetrahedron, 
131-132-133, 
134-140, 
178, 
180 |  | C | ompression, see 
Tensegrity |  | C | onsciousness, defined by Fuller, 11-12 |  | C | onstant relative abundance, 
44, 
74 |  | C | ookies, 
85-86, 
130 |  | C | oordinate system, 
2, 
65, 
97, 
205, 
240 |  |  | Cartesian, 
70-71-72, 
88, 
97, 
131, 
137, 
140, 
154, 
157, 
209-211, |  |  | origin, 
12, 
33, 
65, 
97, 
140 |  |  | spherical, 
71-72 |  | C | opernicus, 
71 |  | C | osmic hierarchy, 
9, 
143, 
156-158, 
165-166, 
216 |  | C | osmic Railroad Tracks, see Great Circles |  | C | oupler, 
199-200-201, 
202; see also 
Mite |  | C | ube, 
40, 46, 
211 |  |  | employment as basic unit of mathematics, 7-8, 14, 
20-21, 
71-73, 
144, 
157-158, 
179, 
190 |  |  | ghost, 
8, 
65, 
144 |  |  | inherent tetrahedron in, 
46, 
59-60, 
137-138, 
145-146, 
178, 
185 |  |  | instability of, 
59-60, 
107, 
124, 
135, 
137, 
141, 
145, 
146, 
178 |  |  | used as unit of volume, 
144-145, 
152, 
158 |  |  | tetrahedral volume of, 
151, 
152 |  |  | see also 
Isotropic vector matrix, cube and 
IVM; 
Mite, cubes and 
Mites |  | C | uboctahedron, 
48-49 |  |  | duality of, 
51 |  |  | "twist," 
90, 
105 |  |  | see also 
Vector equilibrium | 
 
 
 | D | egrees of freedom, see 
Twelve degrees of freedom |  | D | emocritus, 
58 |  | D | escartes, René, 
75 |  | D | esign Science, 
1, 
13, 
118, 
142, 
258-262, 
264, 
267, 
(Chapter 16) |  |  | comprehensive thinking, 
259-261 |  |  | design-science revolution, 
268-269 |  |  | see also 
Invention |  | D | ictionary as inventory of experiences, 
19 |  | D | imension, 
41, 
65, 
69, 
70-75 |  |  | definition of, 
70 |  |  | four-dimensional, 
71-74, 
92, 
95, 
169-172 |  |  | multidimensional, 
127-129, 
130 |  |  | other applications of, 
74-75 |  |  | three-dimensional, 
70-74, 
130 |  | D | odecahedron, see 
Pentagonal dodecahedron, 
Rhombic dodecahedron |  | D | omain, 
138, 
213-215, |  |  | and closepacked spheres, 
138, 
201 |  |  | and duality, 
138-139, 
181-184 |  | D | uality, 
45-49, 
180, 
183, 
211 |  |  | dual operations, 
52, 
140 |  |  | dual polyhedra, 
45-46, 
50, 
52, 
168, 
212 |  |  | IVM and, 
136-139, 
181-182 see also 
Domain |  | D | ymaxion, 
34 |  |  | Map, 
64, 
263-265 | 
 
 
 | E | ddington, Arthur, 
7, 
33, 
149 |  | E | dmondson, Amy C., 
5, 
252 |  | E | instein, 
11, 
13 |  | E | = Mc ², 
13 |  | E | mpire State Building, 
8 |  | E | nergy-event |  |  | descriptive term to replace "solid," 
7-8, 
27, 
195 |  |  | discrete energy events, 
18, 
125-126, 
193, 
222, 
228, 
256; |  |  | see also 
Finite accounting system |  |  | "energy-event Universe," 
14, 
17, 
27, 
51, 
66, 
221, 
226-228 |  | E | ngineering, 
141-142, 
237, 
253-254 |  | E | nvironment control, 
63, 
262 |  | E | quilibrium, |  |  | see 
Vector equilibrium |  | E | uler, Leonhard, 
42, 
43, 
62 |  |  | Euler's Law, 
43-45, 
77, 
116, 
230-231 |  | E | xtinction, 
259 | 
 
 
 | " | Fake bubbles," 
15-17 |  | F | lat-earth thinking, 
14, 
19-20, 
71, 
144, 
158 |  | F | inite accounting system, 
18-19, 
125-126, 
208; see also 
Energy-event |  | F | ood system, 
261-262 |  | F | our planes of symmetry, 
93, 
106, 
130, 
133, 
140, 
169 |  | F | requency, 
65, 
112, 
227 |  |  | angle and, 
67, 
72, 
83, 
91 |  |  | versus continuum, 
67, 
235 |  |  | formula to relate frequency and number of spheres, 
116, 
118, 
125, 
238-239 |  |  | geodesic domes and, 
235-240, 
240-243 |  |  | higher-frequency polyhedra, 
135, 
136, 
148, 
155-157, 
184, 
186-188, 
227, 
235-237, 
256 |  |  | and size, 
66-67 |  |  | sphere-packing and, 
112, 
114-117, 
125 |  |  | and time, 
67 |  | F | uller Institute, |  |  | see 
Buckminster Fuller Institute | 
 
 
 | G | eneral Dynamics, titanium shell experiment, 
239 |  | G | eneralized principle, 
1, 
12-13, 
33, 
35, 
110, 
116, 
180, 
188, 
240, 
259, 
262, 
263 |  |  | principle of angular topology, |  |  | see
Angular topology |  |  | see also 
Principle of design covariables |  | G | eodesics, 
227, 
231, 
235-237, 
233-257(Chapter 15) |  |  | four-frequency icosahedron, 77, 
78, 
237, 
240 |  |  | dome, 
1, 
5, 
63, 
236, 
239-240, 
240-243, 
254, 
258, 
262-263 |  |  | geodesic mathematics, 
3, 
232 |  |  | geodesic polyhedra, 
28, 
77-78, 
227, 
231, 
236, 
240, 
256 |  |  | great-circle chords, 
236, 
242, 
262 |  |  | variable geodesic patterns, 
240-242 |  |  | see also 
Frequency, 
Shell systems |  | G | od, 
11, 
14, 
59, 
258-259 |  | G | olden section, 
18, 
166-
168 |  | G | ravity |  |  | Fuller anecdotes, 
2, 
247-248 |  |  | mass interattraction, 
13, 
33, 
204, 
245, 
249, 
267 |  | G | reat circles, 
26, 
206-231 (Chapter 14) |  |  | bowties, 
219-228, 
230 |  |  | cosmic railroad tracks, 
228-229, 
231 |  |  | definition of, 
206 |  |  | energy paths, 
226-229 |  |  | great-circle arc, 
207, 
221, 
232-233 |  |  | great-circle patterns, 
209-213 |  |  | icosahedral, 
212-213-
213-217, 
224-226-
226-227, 
230, 
234-235, 
255 |  |  | icosahedron as local shunting circuit, 
229 |  |  | minimum models, 
223-224 |  |  | shortest path, 
206-207, 
226, 
228, 
232 |  | G | reece, ancient, 
7, 
36 |  |  | geometry of, 
37, 
74, 
178, 
179 |  |  | Greek, use in nomenclature, 
25, 27, 
34, 
39 |  |  | see also 
"Pi" | 
 
 
 | H | anging bookshelf, 
266-267 |  | H | arvard University, 
3, 
9, 
37, 
257 Sever Hall, 
3 |  | " | Hands-on" mathematics, 
2, 
24 |  | H | eisenberg, indeterminism, 
179 | 
 
 
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