In an effort to advance discrete element aggregation using the Grasshopper3D plugin WASP (and Andrea building new features into it along the way), we are exploring a ‘sequence-based design’ approach and identified Peter Pearce’s Curved Space Diamond Structure as an ideal foundation.
While working with our idealized proto-bike-frame we soon realized that the reality differs quite a bit and most bike-frames out there do not have parallel head and seat tubes. Even though their angles do not match by only a couple of degrees, it renders a large percentage of the cells we intuitively found so far obsolete. When we picture a classical Gaussian bell curve, our (educated) guess* is, that the number of bike frames whose head and seat tubes are colinear falls at least in the area of two standard deviations, if not three…
