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Not sure how this is more efficient then hexagon columns
by techsin101 8y ago
Not sure how this is more efficient then hexagon columns
- lainga 8y agoMaybe no more efficient, but probably better against shear stresses along the direction of the columns.
- JackFr 8y agoSo imagine sheet constructed of up right hexagonal prisms. Now imagine a ray going from the centroid of the bottom hexagon through the centroid of the of the top hexagon. Now flex the sheet along an axis as if you were wrapping it around a cylinder. The rays now project out radially from the center of the cylinder. Now consider the shapes on the surface if we replaced the stretched hexagons with a Voronoi diagram based on the points where the rays come through the surface. Remarkably the surface shapes are no longer hexagons, and the column are neither hexagonal prisms or frustums of a hexagonal pyramid, but something else entirely.
- techsin101 8y agoIm confused with last part "a Voronoi diagram based on the points where the rays come through the surface." can you draw it