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This swing is the hit of any party! Suspended from guy cables at the top, rotating on bearings bottom and top, six swings spin out in a breath-taking ride, powered by pushers at the base. The 8-vertex shape of this swing is the simplest definition of the crystal structure of gold. Ten foot aluminum struts screw into hubs ~ easily assembled and disassembled.
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This version of the crystal swing was built in Auroville, South India. With 6 more tetrahedra than the one pictured to the right, an 8-pointed star, a “Merkabah” stellated octahedron, a dual tetrahedron, (as in drawing on right below) is created. This shape is even more elegant and fun. 40 kids were on the swings and perched inside at once!
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We’ve had lots of “Swing Parties”. The Summer Solstice 0f ‘96 was a great event, with Live Music (master drummer Saeed Abass from Africa, Wade Wilcox on percussion and Ron Rossell on bass guitar) Timothy Hull took the picture above and a video that captures the feel of the swing & music. He wrote poetic verse describing the event on his website....go to his subpage, “Port Mór to Aberdeen (a sometimes journal)”
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poles screw into 12-nut clusters with rhombic dodecahedron facets, creating tetrahedron- octahedron grid of Face-centered cubic closs-packed crystal matrix.
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Like a Tinkertoy set, this geometry can build an infinite variety of structures, such as this cubeoctahedron support for 6 minimal surface hyparbolic paraboloids, for playgrounds or modular tents.
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