Fascinating stuff! Fan of Buckminster Fuller's ideas and structures; as a sci-fi geek I always imagined these types of structures becoming the backbone of space exploration and space habitats since that would allow for the creation of amazing structures independently of gravity and other forces pulling unevenly on tension cables.

And that odd moment of insight (growing up in soccer-mad Europe) of realizing that the sewn-together panels of a soccer ball basically makes it... a Buckyball.

Thanks for putting this together!