摘要: In 1947 a young artist named Kenneth Snelson invented an intriguing structure: few sticks suspended rigidly in mid air without touching each other. It seemed like magic trick. He showed this to the entrepreneur, builder, visionary, and self-styled mathematician, R. Buckminster Fuller, who called it tensegrity because of its “tensional integrity.” Fuller talked about tensegrities wrote them extensively. went on build great variety fascinating sculptures all over world, including 60-foot work art at Hirschhorn Museum Washington, DC. shown Figure.