LookingOutwards-03

My dad is a Mechanical Engineering professor here at CMU, and for the longest time I assumed that, being a humanities person, I would never understand exactly what my dad does. A few months ago, he brought home some metal rings and some plastic bracelets and necklace pendants. I’d been amazed when he told me that it was a computer algorithm that made aesthetically pleasing patterns. This was the kind of programming that I could be interested in. I’m sorry to admit that I know very little about the actual algorithm other than my dad and some of his students created it.  The goal is for users to be able to design their own creations from home and then be able to print them themselves.

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-complex-d-jewelry.html