I love stuff like this that has literally no practical purpose but it's "we did a cool thing and want to show it off" Never know what your going to get and this has to be one of my favorites
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For people who ask 'Why'?: One reason is you have to come up with something original that has not been done before when you want to prove your skill and education. Also, this may have many different applications, NASA, for example, loves designing complex fabrics.
If the parts were connected by sewing instead of with a zipper, a) would it still work? b) could that possibly be done automatically c) could doing that with a substantially higher turn count (so as to have thinner strips) be effective for making fabric goods with specific curvatures in specific regions? d) could doing so become cost effective and improve clothing? I don't know stuff about how clothes are made, but I've heard that the armpit region of shirts is difficult due to the negative curvature, and because this seems to handle regionals of negative curvature quite well, I was wondering if it might help for that. Oh, also, can this work for things with holes or branching tubes? In any case, this is cool
a) Yes, the compuation is actually even simpler, but it could no longer be assembled in the flat. b) Unfortunately we are not aware of a stitching/sewing machine that is capable of doing this, but that would be certainly interesting to develop. c) In theory yes. But I expect that there will be many practical problems to solve first. d) No idea, but that would be great!
For people who ask 'Why?': One application could be "to easily customise and install the cladding that wraps around oil and gas pipes" (fastcodesign.com)
I imagine the technique can be applied to make sheets of graphene that self assembles to complex (and cheap) microscopic 3d objects for medical or industrial purposes. Maybe instead of zippers they can use the mechanism that stitches DNA strands. This is pure speculation w/o technical background btw.
Apart from making couple expensive novelty plushies, nothing really obvious. But that's basic research for you, it often seems useless, but a decade down the line someone has a difficult problem to solve and goes, aha, this fits perfectly. Although I doubt if such a comparison would be useful in any way, but I can see how someone could compare this to protein folding for example. Basic research is often done for its own sake, you don't know what it might amount to, if anything, but practice shows that past basic research can become incredibly useful when you least expect it.
