Tag: developable surfaces
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crushing it -curved folding of cylinders
This year I plan to plant 100 acorns. This requires a similar number of plant pots and I’m sure I don’t have enough. Not to worry, grab a beer can, roll a meter or so of paper around the end of it and fold the bottom of the tube up along a curved crease or…
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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…