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Re: [ontology-summit] OS-2012 Problem Space - Fuller

To: "Ontology Summit 2012 discussion" <ontology-summit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Christopher Spottiswoode" <cms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:41:10 +0200
Message-id: <9F144DAF5F58457FBE98130D6532492B@klaptop>
Ahhh, but Bucky was building *in* nature, ontologists are dealing with
abstractions *from* nature, representing things and always imperfectly.
So the analogy is rather with computer graphics, where things are built
up efficiently using triangles, including geodesic domes that appear as
such.    (01)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack Ring" <jring7@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ontology Summit 2012 discussion" <ontology-summit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 4:46 AM
Subject: Re: [ontology-summit] OS-2012 Problem Space - Fuller    (02)

Ahhh, but Bucky practiced a different kind of thinking than is practiced
in the ontology, software and much of the systems community. He knew
that triples are unstable. Notice the difference between layers,
lattices, and geodesic domes.    (03)





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