DESMA 9: Gerald de Jong "Math + Art"

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About Gerald De Jong:
Gerald De Jong has a background in computer science and combinatorics from University of Waterloo, and has been a freelance software builder for decades in the Netherlands. He encountered the works of Fuller and Snelson early on, and over the years has developed several generations of an open source software model called Elastic Interval Geometry to enable playing with spatial geometry in general and tensegrity in particular. The latest manifestation of EIG is available on the web and in the last two years Gerald has evolved the code into a tool to guide the actual building of physical tensegrity objects. These new tensegrity structures exhibit a level of intricacy and complexity that was unaccessible to the previous generations who could not use computational design. He has built a number of tensegrity pieces based on his technique of prefabricated slack tension networks combined with compression bars that extend to tighten the structure.