Tag: biomimicry
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Yet another way to parametrically draw a tree.
Making an algorithm to draw a stick tree seems a rite of passage for any computational designer. Thingiverse use it as an example of their in browser customiser; Wassim Jabi’s presents one in his book based on conical possibility space, Dawkins’s discusses genetic models to draw stick trees in The Blind Watchmaker, with a free…
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Leaves and creases Pt2
I’ve written before on Leaves and creases (and I’ve just improved the post a bit), but today, on a hot day, I’m thinking about banana leaves and folding. My previous post discussed different surfaces created by the ribs and how they are used for stiffness. This lovely paper showed that typical hierarchical leaf vein patterns…
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Crease surfaces in leaves Pt1
In this post we’ll look at three different leaves and the strategies they have developed to build large stiff(ish) cantilever surfaces for the purpose of solar energy capture. A nettle leaf. The leaf is ‘flat’ at large scale, but the areas between veins are larger in area than the pure plan, causing doming between the…
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Biomimetic compost shredder
An older project. Most compost shredders are designed to be cut from thick sheet material. If you are #3dprinting, that’s not the way forward. #Biomimetic birds beak shape shape optimized to print. in #Grasshopper, then exported to #oasysGSA for analysis. This flagged up some issues with stress concentration at the sharp mountain and valley folds. These will work better with…