Elegant mathematics bending the future of design
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Elegant mathematics bending the future of design
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Re: Elegant mathematics bending the future of design
#2This is not special or impressive. The video shows a triangle sketch following a closed curve, makes matching tangency seem like something special, then fast forwards to flattening the three faces of the resultant shape. It's like...uh... Yeah, so, possible forever, used regularly, what's the biggie?
Re: Elegant mathematics bending the future of design
#3These are even more beautiful in real life. I don't know why they didn't show it, but the same lab has also built a structure of tubes made of bamboo strips that arch up and over a seating area into a dome. The tubes start at planters and there are vines growing up onto the structure. It's my new favorite thing in my neighborhood. Thanks EPFL!
Re: Elegant mathematics bending the future of design
#4This is not special or impressive. The video shows a triangle sketch following a closed curve, makes matching tangency seem like something special, then fast forwards to flattening the three faces of the resultant shape. It's like...uh... Yeah, so, possible forever, used regularly, what's the biggie?
They show comparisons of the best current algorithms to their results, and theirs are better. Science moves forward incrementally.
Also, this algorithm makes a real physical difference in the world. Cool!
Re: Elegant mathematics bending the future of design
#5These are even more beautiful in real life. I don't know why they didn't show it, but the same lab has also built a structure of tubes made of bamboo strips that arch up and over a seating area into a dome. The tubes start at planters and there are vines growing up onto the structure. It's my new favorite thing in my neighborhood. Thanks EPFL!
Can you share a picture of that arch?
Re: Elegant mathematics bending the future of design
#6There are many more and interesting examples in the paper [1], which is open access.
Re: Elegant mathematics bending the future of design
#7These are even more beautiful in real life. I don't know why they didn't show it, but the same lab has also built a structure of tubes made of bamboo strips that arch up and over a seating area into a dome. The tubes start at planters and there are vines growing up onto the structure. It's my new favorite thing in my neighborhood. Thanks EPFL!
Can you share a picture of that arch?
I think it's this: https://bamx.epfl.ch/
Looks very cool indeed
Re: Elegant mathematics bending the future of design
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you share a picture of that arch?
I think it's this: https://bamx.epfl.ch/ Looks very cool indeed
Specifically this one:
https://bamx.epfl.ch/bamx-green-elysee/
...which is the most photogenic of them all.
Re: Elegant mathematics bending the future of design
#9These are even more beautiful in real life. I don't know why they didn't show it, but the same lab has also built a structure of tubes made of bamboo strips that arch up and over a seating area into a dome. The tubes start at planters and there are vines growing up onto the structure. It's my new favorite thing in my neighborhood. Thanks EPFL!
They didn't show it because it doesn't use this C-Tube technique.
Re: Elegant mathematics bending the future of design
#10There are many more and interesting examples in the paper [1], which is open access. [1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3730933
the paper also has a website with a longer supplemental video than the one linked to above, includes most of the examples from the paper but animated