Re:Algorithms that design structures better than engineers
by lloeki on Friday January 25, 2013 @08:23AM
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Somewhere between '98 and '02 I had a course on material resistance, and a similar result as what is shown here was demonstrated to us, only applied to a chair. I wish I could find the resulting rendering again, but it was looking like something like that [0].
The exercise was to think about how this solution is optimal only according to a small number of parameters, and that as we added more, the possible solution space was gradually reduced to a solution strikingly similar to what someone would design by hand.
The conclusion was that although tools can be very powerful, naive use of tools result only in naive solutions.
The exercise was to think about how this solution is optimal only according to a small number of parameters, and that as we added more, the possible solution space was gradually reduced to a solution strikingly similar to what someone would design by hand.
The conclusion was that although tools can be very powerful, naive use of tools result only in naive solutions.
[0]: http://www.liftarchitects.com/journal/2012/5/28/printing-mat...