À propos of biomimetic design: Drawing of a hull shape based on that of a fish from Matthew Baker's 'Fragments of Ancient English Shipwrightry' (ca. 1586)
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Drawing of streamlining around a body in motion from Fredrik Henrik af Chapman’s 'Tractat om skepps-byggerie', translated into English in 1820 as 'A Treatise on Ship-building' (fig. 14)
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Here's the pdf of the book memory.loc.gov/service/gdc/sc and here's where I first read about it: 'Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real' by Bernhard Siegert books.google.at/books?id=ZKnKB
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Known here colloquially as a Cods head and Mackerel tail design.
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