Unusual Facts: 3D Kite

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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;">Image Credit ~ Matt Porteous/Heather and Ivan Morison</span></span><u><br />
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Wales-based artists Heather and Ivan 
Morison's deceptively heavy looking cube is based on the tetra kites 
that was developed by Alexander Graham Bell in the race towards manned 
flight.</div>
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 it has been realised with cutting edge lightweight material,  including
 3D printed nylon connectors - allowing its 23,000 individual components
 which helps it to float across the sky as if weightless.<br />
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design is basically based on Double wing Module , duplicate it and 
arranges it into a tight, cellular structure that appears as a heavy 
unflyable mass. </div>
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Small
 triangular units have been opened out by 30 degrees and multiplied up 
into colliding cubes that take their shape from naturally occurring 
geometric forms of the mineral Pyrite.</div>
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However, using lightweight materials and the symmetry of the module and composition, it is able to fly freely and steadily.</div>
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