More extreme environments generally mean smaller, more compact/cozy experience containers with a higher ratio of containment material to livable space. Examples: high-altitude funicular vs subway vs train carriages. Or airliner vs space capsule. Or ship vs bathyscape.
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There is a tension between modularization (decomposition into interchangeable instances of a few kinds) and what you might call vocabularization (decomposition into non-interchangeable kinds)
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Math problem: Given an irregular but simply connected shape of area A, and a smaller area a < A, estimate the peak variety of pieces of size <a it can be decomposed into as a function of a. Or something.
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