Imposible table

[gabrielg1983]

Hi everyone, One of my very good friends showed me a picture of this impossible table and I was very intrigued. So I decided to to make it in wood. My expectations of the design was not very high. But as I keep making it I was very surprised with the outcome.

[evansd2]

Tensegrity structures are super cool.

You might find these interesting too, give you ideas for another project

Arches for Tensegrity structure

I used the GF to make some arches (laminated them together from four 3mm arches). The arch is a half-ellipse. Not the best arch I know but easy and plenty good The rest is scrap hickory, and nylon twine . If I make another I will make the base and top from GF cut laminations. [tensigry]

Suspend your tension

My first attempt at a tensegrity structure. [image] https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=M1zs_TzT9RU I used this video as a guide to design my own https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=KzSPS3WCY2c&feature=emb_logo Pretty fun experiment now its time to get all the super glue off my fingers (edit: here is the file. it is setup for medium draftboard) Current scale and setup will require a piece of material ~8 1/4" X 4 1/4" [Suspend your tension Medi…

[dklgood]

I can see why you had your doubts, but the result is awesome.

[bill.m.davis]

Very nice! Thanks for the share!

It makes sense, but it does look like a trick at first. I will have to check out some of the links @evansd2 shared too.

Edit: This is too much fun, I will have to create some of these for the kids!

[eflyguy]

You’ll find a gazillion videos of them on YouTube, most talking about how they just discovered this awesome thing that’s been around since the 50’s…

You can make some interesting sculptures with them.