On page 167 of "Inventions, The Patented Works of R. Buckminster Fuller" (St. Martin's Press ©1983) Fuller writes:
"Nature's simplest structural system in the universe is the tetrahedron. The regular tetrahedron does not fill all-space by itself. The octahedron and tetrahedron complement one another to fill all space. Together they produce the simplest, most powerful structural system in the universe . . . .
It is interesting that at the present time, twenty-two years later, the U.S. government is specifying in its bids for space structures the octet truss (my copyrighted trademark name) for all the main structuring for space stations."
