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CW3_OR_BUST t1_j8mypbw wrote

Reply to comment by nitrohigito in NASA's "evolved structures" radically reduce weight – and waiting by Maxcactus

Kinda indistinguishable if it works all the same. Either way, nobody knows how the heck it works, but it works.

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HazHonorAndAPenis t1_j8n6rdi wrote

I mean, it's creating a defined mesh of the part and the forces for each connection point on said mesh are calculated utilizing a defined matrix and some good old fashioned math, which you could do by hand but would take an untold amount of lifetimes for a single part.

But yeah, Topological optimization and generative design are really the same thing.

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BeardySi t1_j8nu6g8 wrote

This. Design optimisation is design optimisation however you get there.

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