TIL. In April 1974, in the middle of the night, a small group of conspirators secretly installed a large tensegrity icosahedron made from discarded telephone poles on the campus of Twente University in the Netherlands.
It’s still there. People call it Het Ding (“the thing”).
https://www.utwente.nl/en/alumni/inspiring-alumni/ut-canon/stories/het-ding/
@xan You might think so! But when some people did something similar recently in San Francisco there was no such overreaction. (It had been removed by the following day, though: I don't know by whom.)
Attached: 3 images Some of the Zometool crowd made a large sculpture of a projection of a tesseract and yesterday, in the tradition of Drop Art from which zometool was born, installed it guerilla-style in a nearby park.
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