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Architect and Inventor
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
Description: A portrait of R. Buckminster Fuller. The portrait is digitally created based on a photograph. It is multicolored and made up of geodesic domes, which is a dome made up of triangles. Buckminster Fuller is an elderly man with light skin. He has short white hair with a receded hairline. He wears glasses and a suit and tie. The back of the banner is a repeating pattern of a geodesic dome on a brown background.
If you had to put someone's photo next to the word "futurist" in the dictionary, R. Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) would be a great choice. An inventive and counterintuitive thinker, Fuller held audiences spellbound with his ideas. In 1975, he gave a lecture series called "Everything I Know" that lasted 42 hours over a period of two weeks. By the end it seemed like he was just getting started.
Over the course of his career Fuller wrote numerous books, invented hyper-efficient vehicles, and popularized new forms of architecture, including the geodesic dome. He described our planet as "Spaceship Earth," hurtling through space, and humans as astronauts who had to work together to keep the ship operational.
Credit: This portrait was made by artist Nettrice Gaskins using Deep Dream Generator, a computer vision program that uses artificial intelligence to generate new and complex images. |