Biotensegrity Lecture Notes

Abstract from the introductory lecture on biotensegrity

These are a few slides modified from the introductory lecture on Biotensegrity. Most of them are also included in our DVD, Biotensegrity and Dynamic Anatomy. The full talk runs about one hour. The lecture covers challenging the premise of lever mechanics in biology, and how biotensegrity meshes with evolution, energy conservation, foam mechanics, space filling, minimal surfaces, chaos theory and nonlinear dynamics, all intrinsic to mechanics of biologic organisms. Some of these slides need the commentary that normally accompanies them for clarification. You can get that on the DVD, or, even better, invite me to talk with your group. For a more complete discussion, we need about three hours.