Somewhere between '98 and '02 I had a course on material resistance, and a similar result as what is shown here was demonstrated to us, only applied to a chair.

Somewhere between '98 and '02 I had a course on material resistance, and a similar result as what is shown here was demonstrated to us, only applied to a chair. I wish I could find the resulting rendering again, but it was looking like something like that [0]. The exercise was to think about how this solution is optimal only according to a small number of parameters, and that as we added more, the possible solution space was gradually reduced to a solution strikingly similar to what someone would design by hand. The conclusion was that although tools can be very powerful, naive use of tools result only in naive solutions. [0]: http://www.liftarchitects.com/journal/2012/5/28/printing-material-distributions.html http://www.liftarchitects.com/journal/2012/5/28/printing-mat...