I think I heard about that 3d weaving thing... I wonder how that works... I can see how weaving a tight 3d block of carbon fiber might be quite useful.
There's something else interesting I heard a Japanese guy came up with regards to strong materials. Apparently he did something like put glass fibers in latex paint, and when painted onto a concrete surface it greatly increased the strength of the material. I think they were talking about other uses for it too. I thought it was odd that simply putting random threads of glass into latex paint could cause it to gain so much strength.
As far as bird bones go... I don't know exaclty how those are structured, but if I'm not mistaken, they're porous right? And hollow? I always thought that hexagonal structures like a beehive would make good materials. I think I heard they use some stuf flike that in airplanes. I wonder if there is another shape which could tile in 3D... Would that be a dodecahedron? Perhaps there is no 3D um.... standard... shape beyond tetrahedrons and cubes which can tile in 3D, I'm not sure.
There's something else interesting I heard a Japanese guy came up with regards to strong materials. Apparently he did something like put glass fibers in latex paint, and when painted onto a concrete surface it greatly increased the strength of the material. I think they were talking about other uses for it too. I thought it was odd that simply putting random threads of glass into latex paint could cause it to gain so much strength.
As far as bird bones go... I don't know exaclty how those are structured, but if I'm not mistaken, they're porous right? And hollow? I always thought that hexagonal structures like a beehive would make good materials. I think I heard they use some stuf flike that in airplanes. I wonder if there is another shape which could tile in 3D... Would that be a dodecahedron? Perhaps there is no 3D um.... standard... shape beyond tetrahedrons and cubes which can tile in 3D, I'm not sure.