Imagine, Geometry - tetraHelix

These pages are to give flight to your imagination. A tetraHelix is a string of tetrahedrons. This is a funky one made of pipe-cleaners, which are wires covered with fuzzy material. The edges are curved because of what it is to become.

See it twirling in space:

• QuickTime object movie (Large: 1.5 MB)
• Flash object movie (Medium: 500 KB)

See it building, one side at a time:

• QuickTime object (1.7 MB)
• QuickTime movie (3 MB)
• Flash movie ( 2.5 MB)

See it with triple-spiraled faces in RGB colors. Could prevision a triple-helix DNA? For a way to use the structure, see iBar TetraHelixed.

Here is a page of notes on Buckminster Fuller's tetrahelix info. See tetrahedron.