Bucky wrote extensively on the significance of the tetrahelix. He described how the tetrahedron is the union of a left-handed and right-handed spiral triangle.
Bucky thought that the backbone of DNA is a tetrahelix. I created several images based on the tetrahelix in which I placed human figures.
See Synergetics section 930.00 Tetrahelix. A wonderful photo of a model of the tetrahix from Synergetics illustrates the geometry.
The marvelous web page of R.W. Gray Projects on TETRAHELIX DATA contains beautiful spinning tetrahelix animations and perhaps the best explanation of the properties of the tetrahelix.
No comments:
Post a Comment