Designing Plants: Modeling Ideal Shapes

摘要

In an industrialized world,virtually everything we are using is first designed and then manufactured.Let us use the automobile manufacturing industry as an example:engineers design vehicles based on laws of physics;select proper materials for machine parts;and assemble parts following blueprints into cars,buses,and trucks.It is evident that we need not only parts but also technical drawings and instructions for the assembly of parts into a functional pump or clutch.