{"id":9184,"date":"2024-08-23T06:17:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T06:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/?p=9184"},"modified":"2024-08-24T05:53:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T05:53:40","slug":"nicholas-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/2024\/08\/23\/nicholas-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ahoy! My name is Nicholas Bacon; I\u2019m the student always in the overalls. It’s a personality and nothing else. A little about me and why I took this class: I am a PhD student under Patric Bridges doing research in the HPC space. My current research focuses on optimizing network-bound applications through analysis using sampling and simulation techniques. Why I chose to take this class\u2026 I saw the word ‘fabrication’ and wanted to do it. In what little free time I have, I like to play in my garage doing home machining, auto restoration, and auto fabrication. These activities are more than just hobbies and a way to unwind\u2026 They have become my life, likely due to some sunk cost fallacy. Case in point: My 1974 Volkswagen Bug is $15,000(last time I check and I stopped checking) over budget, and I\u2019m about 1,000 days into this simple two-week project.
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A thing that needed computational design that I found interesting was a team of Japanese and British researchers used a gelatinous fungus-like mold to mimic the designs of the Toyoko railways in less then 48 hours. To do these experments they drop oats on strategic spots and use boundaries, walls, barriers to repent land scape or a problem like a maze. The Fungus is starts with a broad BFS search looking for nodes(more oats) then starts to prun its self into the most efficient way to maxumize the nutrants traving to the starting node repsenting a minimum spanning tree . The Fungus is (in this youtube video https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RVe94qa1ar4<\/a>) shown with a few examples like solving mazes, mimic Toyoko railways and french roadways. It amazing what a brainless fungus can do with the only motivation of food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

read more here: https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/900672<\/a>
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sourse: https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/900672<\/a> via Science AAAS
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