Structural Form: Human vs. Computer in Engineering Design
In this photo are three structural nodes, intended to hold cables above a road in The Hague. The difference is the node on the far left was designed by a human, and on the far right by a computer. More importantly, the node on the far right supports the same weight, but weighs 75% less and is 50% smaller. It makes you think where design and aesthetics will shift toward, in a future where computers design our world.
This is because computers are not restrained to humans' inherent need for a aesthetics, including symmetry, form, and geometric shape. A human being would never design the structure to the far right because humans naturally create things based on predictability: order, symmetry, and geometry, which may not always be optimal. We imagine based on order, not disorder.
This is actually crazy. I think the one on the left looks uglier though.
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