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An Eight-Legged Builder
Damping mechanism in orb spider webs
A three year project to achieve a magnificent cape made from golden spider silk
Spider silk vs. steel by Mythbusters
Wet Hair
Damping mechanism in orb spider webs
Droplets with a twist: Interview of Kari Dalnoki-Veress by Guillaume Durey (Lutetium Project)
Birds as Architects
- P. Goodfellow Avian architecture Princeton University Press (2011)
Weaver Bird making its nest commented by Sir David Attenborough
- G. Verhille et al P. Le Gal Structure and mechanics of aegagropilae fiber network PNAS. 114 4607-4612
An Impressive Bridge of Grasses
Hemp rope from amàco on Vimeo.
Folders and Taylors: Masters of Volume
Weaving and Brainding
Retrospective Exhibition of Madeleine Vionnet at the Museum of Arts Décoratifs, Paris
P.Golbin Madeleine Vionnet , puriste de la mode Les arts décoratifs (2009)
A great conference from the mathematician Etienne Ghys (in French)
Documentary on the traditional use of sebúcan (in Spanish)
Folding and Crumpling Paper Balls
An interesting article on crumpled paper from New York Times (novembreNovember 2018) …and a more recent one in March 2021: As we note in « Foldind and Crumpling Paper Ball » (p.142) the physics of crumpling is an active field with many unknonwn. A new approach puts forward an analogy beteween crumpling and fragmentation. Download a pdf version here
A.D. Cambou & N. Menon Three dimensional structure of a sheet crumpled in a ball PNAS 108 14741 (2011)
Students broke the record in the number of paper fold (13) using a (very very long) ribbon of toilet paper. See this article on NPR, and this other one and this video :
Robert Lang TED talk The math and magic of origami
David Dureisseix An overview of mechanisms and patterns with origami International Journal of Space Structures 27 (2012)
M.G. Kanatzidis, […] & J. Huang Compression and Aggregation-Resistant Particles of Crumpled Soft Sheets ACS Nano 5 8943 (2011)
