These same design principles also give rise to larger stable designs that are made of atoms, like rocks, plants, and people. By using some of the same design principles that are found in nature, it is also possible to build Roger's Connection designs that are stable, even though these connections are also flexible. By learning to build stable designs with Roger's Connection, it is possible to spontaneously discover some of the most important design principles that are found in the natural world. This is why Roger's Connection can be a powerful yet enjoyable educational tool for learning about natural design principles. One of the fundamental design principles involves the use of triangles.
Most people are much more familiar with building with squares, than with triangles.
After all, our everyday world is filled with the 90 degree angles that are found in everything from children's building blocks, construction bricks, cardboard boxes, and most buildings. We are much less familiar with the 60 degree angles that are found in triangles. Yet as you will soon begin to discover, it is in fact the triangle, and the three dimensional shapes that can be built with it, that are more fundamental than the square and the cube, as the basic building blocks of nature. Triangles and Squares Let's look at this with a Roger's Connection example. When a triangle is formed, there is exactly one angle that will lock in the opposite magnetic rod.