Ingber Lab Animations

Revisited Don Ingber's videos hosted on the Wyss lab website, Harvard University.

Don Ingber himself, along with Bob Ezzell, produced these two:

Compression of a 6 strut tensegrity

http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewmedia/33/compression-of-6-strut-tensegrity-model

Compression of a "jitterbug" cuobactoahedron

http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewmedia/23/model-of-tensiondependent-stress-fiber-formation

Eddy Y. Xuan created the following animations. Start with his stunning "Architecture of life," an overlay of tensegrities and biological models; Xuan juxtaposes classic tensegrity structures such as a needle-tower mast with accurate data-based artistic renderings of cell cytomechanics.

http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewmedia/10/architecture-of-life

Tensegrity structure, nucleated, undergoing shear:

http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewmedia/36/sheared-tensegrity-cell-model-with-nucleus

Same nucleated tensegrity, stretching:

http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewmedia/35/stretched-tensegrity-cell-model-with-nucleus

And Molecular Geodesics Inc. animated some tensegrity fabrics:

Top view:

http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewmedia/28/collapsing-tensegrity-fabric-top-view

Same animation, viewed from an angle:

http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewmedia/27/collapsing-tensegrity-fabric-top-view

Retracting when released from its adhesive anchors:

http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewmedia/26/retracting-tensegrity-fabric-

Undulating:

http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewmedia/25/undulating-tensegrity-fabric