{"id":94829,"date":"2019-08-15T03:22:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T10:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/generative-design-alien-parts-from-natural-evolution"},"modified":"2019-08-15T03:22:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T10:22:33","slug":"generative-design-alien-parts-from-natural-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/generative-design-alien-parts-from-natural-evolution","title":{"rendered":"Generative Design: Alien Parts from Natural Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/generative-design-alien-parts-from-natural-evolution2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re only a handful of months away from the year 2020, and with the way parts look and tech acts, it finally feels like we\u2019re entering the future. It\u2019s a future crafted by sophisticated 3D printers and machining centers, using materials provided by global-reaching supply chains and connected to an exponential rate of new superpowered gadgets. Nowadays, there\u2019s really no reason to think any manufacturing feat is impossible. If something doesn\u2019t exist, it\u2019s just that we haven\u2019t figured it out yet.<\/p>\n<p>And this futuristic techtopia brimming with potential wouldn\u2019t be possible if not for engineers\u2014those dedicated, uber-creative folks plotting such a course, continuously improving the world around through the super power of\u2026 math.<\/p>\n<p>Mathematics has been the indispensable fuel to make the impossible possible since at least the ancient Egyptians more than four thousand years ago. The Great Pyramid of Giza is the world\u2019s oldest monument to its power. Amazingly, its geometrical elegance was calculated on papyrus scrolls, most of which have turned to dust long ago. Yet the universal language of math still speaks through its dimensions. And it will continue to do so for time immemorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re only a handful of months away from the year 2020, and with the way parts look and tech acts, it finally feels like we\u2019re entering the future. It\u2019s a future crafted by sophisticated 3D printers and machining centers, using materials provided by global-reaching supply chains and connected to an exponential rate of new superpowered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1497,385,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-energy","category-evolution","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}