Generative Design

The telltale bony, organic shapes of generatively designed parts are starting to make a big impact at NASA

Space

NASA's "evolved structures" radically reduce weight – and waiting

Evolution has shaped the load-bearing skeletons of animals over aeons with incredible precision. Now, an accelerated simulation of the evolution process is helping NASA create stronger, lighter parts for its spacecraft projects – in record time.

The Spyros Panopoulos Chaos will become, on debut, the most powerful street-legal production car in history, by a margin of more than 50%

Automotive

Twisted, 3,000-horsepower Chaos Ultracar offers a glimpse of the future

Strap in, petrolheads, I promise you've never seen a crankshaft remotely like this one before. The spec sheet and bizarrely organic-looking design of this 3-D printed Greek widowmaker are almost as wild a ride as the 3,000-horsepower beast itself.

That's a load bearing engine block, optimized using a generative design algoritm

Good Thinking

Generative design and the radical, skeletal new look of tomorrow

One little button in a piece of CAD software is threatening to fundamentally change the way we design, as well as what the built world looks like in the near future. Inspired by evolution, generative design produces extremely strong, efficient and lightweight shapes. And boy do they look weird.