R. Buckminster Fuller’s V.E. or cuboctahedron may be thought of as four intersecting regular hexagons with a common center. The planes of the hexagons are parallel to the faces of a regular tetrahedron and define Bucky’s 4-way (or four dimensional or 4D) division of standard 3D orthogonal space. In this unusual view, two of the hexagons intersect at oblique angles, and the remaining two form an “X” in the middle of the diagram that juts out towards the viewer. A reference cube is included to return to this view when needed, and also to get a handy cross-sectional plane. To get the standard view of the V.E., select the Iso view from the standard views of the camera menu, or select a portion of one of the hexagons and align the view from the context menu. #buckminster #bucky #cuboctahedron #fuller #geodesic #isotropic_vector_matrix #ivm #octet_truss #VE #vector_equilibrium
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