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Wonderful, thank you - so when I said that I have a really weird design idea ;;

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The best arch for dividing a sphere is a hexagon.

The idea for dimpling comes from the honeycomb sandwich design patterns we have for use in structurally solid airplane components, coupled with a micro design for stem-cell research from someone from University of San Francisco....

She was building a micro printed 'injector' where she would inject proteins to various stem cell pods.

She would then measure the various cells to see how she could get them to express in a desired outcome....

The hex is from some top secret shit I saw back in the day...

SO... I am thinking that one can util the hex layout and by slurping/pumping vacuum or hyrdo, one can manipulate the dimples on an interface.. on a toroidal propeller in water, pressure is equalized in a certain way to allow live dynamic prop deformations....

In a helo blade it has to be gas activated. but the material overlay has to be able to handle millions of deformations on an individual cell or a neighborhood of cells to reduce piping.

leading edge bumps inflate on way out and release to tailing edge bumps on exit...




What are the vortexes created by the cells of a buterflies wings. that is how they manage vortex. its through complimentary vorticies




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