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From the Ted Talk by Neri Oxman: Design at the intersection of technology and biology
Unscramble the Blue Letters
In our next project, we explore the possibility of ctaernig a cape and skirt — this was for a Paris fashion show with Iris van Herpen — like a second skin that are made of a single part, stiff at the cotonrus, flexible around the waist. Together with my long-term 3D prniting collaborator Stratasys, we 3D-printed this cape and skirt with no seams between the cells, and I'll show more objects like it. This helmet combines stiff and soft materials in 20-micron resolution. This is the resolution of a human hair. It's also the rosuleotin of a CT scanner. That designers have access to such high-resolution analytic and synthetic tools, enables to design pordcuts that fit not only the shape of our beoids, but also the physiological makeup of our tissues. Next, we designed an acsitouc chair, a chiar that would be at once srcrutuatl, cltbmofraoe and would also abosrb sound. Professor Carter, my collaborator, and I turned to nature for inspiration, and by designing this irregular sarfuce pattern, it becomes sound-absorbent. We printed its surface out of 44 different properties, varying in rigidity, opacity and color, corresponding to pressure points on the hmuan body. Its surface, as in ntarue, varies its functionality not by adding another material or another assembly, but by continuously and delicately varying material property.
Open Cloze
In our next project, we explore the possibility of ________ a cape and skirt — this was for a Paris fashion show with Iris van Herpen — like a second skin that are made of a single part, stiff at the ________, flexible around the waist. Together with my long-term 3D ________ collaborator Stratasys, we 3D-printed this cape and skirt with no seams between the cells, and I'll show more objects like it. This helmet combines stiff and soft materials in 20-micron resolution. This is the resolution of a human hair. It's also the __________ of a CT scanner. That designers have access to such high-resolution analytic and synthetic tools, enables to design ________ that fit not only the shape of our ______, but also the physiological makeup of our tissues. Next, we designed an ________ chair, a _____ that would be at once __________, ___________ and would also ______ sound. Professor Carter, my collaborator, and I turned to nature for inspiration, and by designing this irregular _______ pattern, it becomes sound-absorbent. We printed its surface out of 44 different properties, varying in rigidity, opacity and color, corresponding to pressure points on the _____ body. Its surface, as in ______, varies its functionality not by adding another material or another assembly, but by continuously and delicately varying material property.
Solution
- acoustic
- printing
- resolution
- surface
- creating
- products
- absorb
- chair
- nature
- comfortable
- bodies
- human
- contours
- structural
Original Text
In our next project, we explore the possibility of creating a cape and skirt — this was for a Paris fashion show with Iris van Herpen — like a second skin that are made of a single part, stiff at the contours, flexible around the waist. Together with my long-term 3D printing collaborator Stratasys, we 3D-printed this cape and skirt with no seams between the cells, and I'll show more objects like it. This helmet combines stiff and soft materials in 20-micron resolution. This is the resolution of a human hair. It's also the resolution of a CT scanner. That designers have access to such high-resolution analytic and synthetic tools, enables to design products that fit not only the shape of our bodies, but also the physiological makeup of our tissues. Next, we designed an acoustic chair, a chair that would be at once structural, comfortable and would also absorb sound. Professor Carter, my collaborator, and I turned to nature for inspiration, and by designing this irregular surface pattern, it becomes sound-absorbent. We printed its surface out of 44 different properties, varying in rigidity, opacity and color, corresponding to pressure points on the human body. Its surface, as in nature, varies its functionality not by adding another material or another assembly, but by continuously and delicately varying material property.
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Important Words
- absorb
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- acoustic
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- objects
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- professor
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- properties
- property
- resolution
- rigidity
- scanner
- seams
- shape
- show
- single
- skin
- skirt
- soft
- sound
- stiff
- stratasys
- structural
- surface
- synthetic
- tissues
- tools
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- waist