"gera...@neorigami.com" <gera...@neorigami.com> wrote: >In his answer, Dave Mitchell asked me to explain what I mean with >"friction-based modulars". >Maybe there's another name for that, but I'm referring to modulars which units >stay together thanks to the friction generated between them.
I asked because it's not a category of modular designs with which I am familiar. I can only think of one three-dimensional design ... Paul Jackson's Cube ... which stays together because of friction. The others I can think of all seem to stay together because bits of them are bent at angles around other bits, either inside pockets or outside other layers. I suppose you could consider that a tab might not slide out of a pocket because of friction but it seems to me that is secondary to the more mechanical element of the design. Some two-dimensional designs ... which I am much less expert at ... may fall in your category, perhaps. I am thinking of things like my 5-part Pentagram in which the modules are pushed together in the centre and hold because they all wedge up against each other. Is that what you were thinking of? Dave
