Has anyone ever done a systematic study of the laws of engineered systems? Like how we have laws of physics and principles of biology? Thinking stuff like: - they have lots of right angles - they have pure materials - weak fractal structure - symmetries etc
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Yep... Superman’s fortress of solitude looks like stalactites and stalagmiteshttps://twitter.com/quodvideo/status/1325673247044759553 …
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"What is quality?"
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"What is love?"
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Sarah’s Mess essay gets kind of close!
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establishing provenance of synthetic media is a challenge in part because the development of better detectors often lends itself to more clever ways to fool them
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Have you seen what’s in the deep oceans?
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My first instinct is that there is no distinction. A forest is natural, but has been engineered by biological systems and is in fact a unique product of its environment, just like a skyscraper has been. All objects are where the are for some reason.
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If you’re talking like, E.T. style alien, then it would probably be a materials science question, as the structural properties of a material beyond any known human capability would be both logical for an alien object to possess and immediately obvious.
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making those kinds of heuristics explicit is in a sense, the goal of Design for Manufacturability practices; in that they tell you what sort of designs are easiest to make with extant manufacturing techniques
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like in your OP, "lots of right angles, pure materials, weak fractal structure, symmetries" is pretty much a subset of "guidelines for getting a part CNC'd into existence as cheaply as possible [by reducing demands for fancier machines and machining/setup time]"
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